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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmunds Act (Polygamy) | Sponsor | Edmunds Act (Polygamy) | NO short title | Sen. George Edmunds (R-VT) | ch. 47, 22 Stat 30 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000056 |
nothing in statute (made polygamy a felony) | ||||
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act of 2002 | Honor | Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act of 2002 | "Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act of 2002" | Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (NY) | 33 USC 1251 (note) | 107-303, title II | 116 Stat 2358 | Y |
http://www.lcbp.org/lcbpsumr.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001054 |
short title; Moynihan was one of the sponsors of the underlying bill (1990, Lake Champlain Special Designation Act), he had retired from the Senate in 2000 | ||
| Corey Shea Act | Victim | Corey Shea Act | "Corey Shea Act" | Army Specialist Corey Shea was killed in Iraq in November 2008. His mother fought for the legislation to allow interment in military cemeteries of parents of deceased veterans who do not have spouses or children. | 38 USC 101 (note) | 111-275, title V, section 502 | 124 Stat 2882 | Y |
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2010/10/01/news/8022590.txt |
short title of Sec. 502 - internment in national cemeteries of parents of certain deceased veterans | ||
| Savings are Vital to Everyone's Retirement Act of 1997 | Acrostic | Savings are Vital to Everyone's Retirement Act of 1997 | "Savings Are Vital to Everyone's Retirement Act of 1997" | 29 USC 1001 | 105-92 | 111 Stat 2139 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; no abbreviation listed in either PNT or statute | ||||
| ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2007 | Acrostic | ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2007 | "Advance Democratic Values, Address Nondemocratic Countries, and Enhance Democracy Act of 2007" or "ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2007" | 22 USC 8201 | 110-53 | 121 Stat 526 | Y | both are in short title at beginning of Title XXI of the "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act" | ||||
| Mead Air Mail Extension Act | Sponsor | Mead Air Mail Extension Act | NO short title | Rep. James Mead (D-NY) | ch 9, 52 Stat 6 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000615 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Staggers Rail Act of 1980 | Honor | Staggers Rail Act of 1980 | "Staggers Rail Act of 1980" | Rep. Henry Orrin Staggers (WV), who chaired the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, and retired in 1980. Interestingly, Staggers was NOT the sponsor of the legislation, though it did go through his Committee. | 49 USC 10101 (note) | 96-448 | 94 Stat 1895 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000778 |
short title; from Wikipedia (with no cite): The act was named for Congressman Harley Staggers (D-WV), who chaired the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Although it is traditional for laws to be known by the names of their sponsors, this is believed to be the first (but not last) case in which the sponsor's name was officially incorporated into the text of a Federal statute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act | ||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1922" | Ch. 1, 42 Stat 327 | ||||||||
| McDuffie-Tydings Act of 1934 (see Philippine Independence Act) | Sponsor | McDuffie-Tydings Act of 1934 (see Philippine Independence Act) | NO short title | Rep. John McDuffie (D-AL); Sen. Millard E. Tydings (D-MD) | ch 84, 48 Stat 456 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000427; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000446 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act | Sponsor | Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act | NO short title | Sen. Lynn Frazier (R-ND); Rep. William Lemke (Non-Partisan/R-ND) | ch. 869, 48 Stat 1289 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000354; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000238 |
nothing in statute |