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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Amendment (Agricultural Colleges) | Sponsor | Nelson Amendment (Agricultural Colleges) | NO short title | Sen. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 2907 [part], 34 Stat 1256, 1281 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000040 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Brown-Lea Natural Gas Act | Sponsor | Brown-Lea Natural Gas Act | "Natural Gas Act" | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA); Sen. Prentiss Brown (D-MI) | 15 USC 717w | ch 556, 52 Stat 821 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000941 (for information regarding Sen. Brown's involvement in the bill, see The Fpc and Indefinite Price Escalation Clauses: Remedy for Administrative Breakdown, 73 Yale L.J. 1283 (1964), n. 26) |
short title at end; | |||
| Fiscal Year 1990 Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance | Political Description | Fiscal Year 1990 Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance | "the fiscal year 1990 Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance" | 101-130, 101-100 ? | 103 Stat 775 | N | short title being added as Section 108 (e ) | |||||
| 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 | ||
| Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934 | Description | Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934 | "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934" | Ch. 101, 48 Stat 283 | ||||||||
| Ashurst-Sumners Act (Shipment in Interstate Commerce of Convict Made Goods) | Sponsor | Ashurst-Sumners Act (Shipment in Interstate Commerce of Convict Made Goods) | NO short title | Sen. Henry Fountain Ashurst, (D-AZ); Rep. Hatton William Sumners, (D-TX) | 18 USC 1761 | 49 Stat 494 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000319; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001072 |
name not statutized (neither Ashurst-Summers nor Shipment in Interstate��_��__��_��___) | |||
| White Charger Act | Political Description | White Charger Act | NO short title | Name derived from an observation that the legislation went through Congress "like a White Charger," or cavalry horse. | 86-616, section 10 | 74 Stat 395 | N |
Norman v. U. S., 392 F.2d 255, 256 (Ct. Cl. Mar. 15, 1968) disapproved of by Colm v. Kissinger, 406 F. Supp. 1250 (D.D.C. 1975) |
nothing in statute; about Army and Air Force officers, not sure what/who "White Charger" is | |||
| 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" |