The collection can be sorted by the popular name of the law, by the date of its enactment, or by descriptive category of naming convention. The categories are our attempt to bring some degree of order to the chaos.
Database of Federal Statute Names
Database of Federal Statute Popular Names
| Title | Type | Popular Name | Short Title | Named For? | Classification | PL | Statute At Large |
Date(s) Enacted |
Interesting Part Statutized? | Leads to other named Legislation | Link/Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 | Acrostic | Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 | "Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002" | 17 USC 101 | 107-273, div C, title III, subtitle C, S 13301 | 116 Stat 1910 | N | the obvious acronym is not listed in the PNT | ||||
| SPEECH Act | Acrostic | SPEECH Act | "Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act" or "SPEECH Act" | 28 USC 1 | 111-223 | 124 Stat 2380 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Lowden Act (Purchase of Embassy Buildings, etc.) | Sponsor | Lowden Act (Purchase of Embassy Buildings, etc.) | NO short title | Rep. Frank Orren Lowden, (R-IL) | 22 USC 133 | ch. 105, 36 Stat 917 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000472 |
Repealed by ch. 250, Section 7, 44 Stat 405; not statutized | |||
| Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997 | Honor | Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997 | "Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Act of 1997" | Rep. Morris K. Udall (AZ) | 42 USC 201 (note) | 105-78, title VI, section 603 | 111 Stat 1519 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=U000001 |
short title | ||
| Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | Sponsor | Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | "Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006" | Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (WA) and Sen. Ted Stevens (AK) | 16 USC 1801 (note) | 109-479 | 120 Stat 3575 | Y |
Magnuson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000053; Stevens - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000888 |
The House version was named for Stevens-Inouye, but the Senate version was Magnuson-Stevens. The law had previously been statutized only with Magnuson's name, not Stevens's. | ||
| Ramspeck-Mead Act | Sponsor | Ramspeck-Mead Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D-GA); Sen. James Mead (D-NY) | ch 346, 55 Stat 613 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000032; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000615 |
nothing in statute; amending Classification Act of 1923 | ||||
| HOME Investment Partnerships Act | Abrreviation | HOME Investment Partnerships Act | "HOME Investment Partnerships Act" | 42 USC 12701 | 101-625, title II | 104 Sat 4094 | Y | short title at beginning of title II; HOME is capitalized but does not seem to be an acronym | ||||
| National Firearms Act | Description | National Firearms Act | "National Firearms Act" | 26 USC 5849 | Ch. 757, 48 Stat 1236 | |||||||
| Ellender Sugar Act (see Sugar Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Ellender Sugar Act (see Sugar Act of 1937) | NO short title | Sen. Allen Ellender (D-LA) | ch 898, 50 Stat 903 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000112 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Baldwin Amendment | Sponsor | Baldwin Amendment | NO short title | Rep. John Finley Baldwin, Jr., (R-CA) | Amending 1USC 23 | 89-139 section 4(a) | 79 Stat 578 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000092 |
"Baldwin" not statutized; highway safety programs |