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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928 | Description | Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928 | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928" | Ch. 853, 45 Stat 884 | ||||||||
| Overman Act | Sponsor | Overman Act | NO short title | Sen. Lee Slater Overman, (D-N.C) | ch 78, 40 Stat 556 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000140 |
nothing in statute; authorizing the President to reorganize the executive branch | ||||
| Russell-Overton Amendment | Sponsor | Russell-Overton Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA); Sen. John Overton (D-LA) | ch 720, section 9, 54 Stat 892 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000536; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000146 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Buy American Act of 1988 | Political Description | Buy American Act of 1988 | "Buy American Act of 1988" | 41 USC 101 | 100-418, title VII | 102 Stat 1545 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2002 | Victim | James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2002 | "James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2002" | James Guelff was a San Francisco Police Officer who was shot to death on November 13, 1994, by a heavily-armed gunman wearing a bullet-proof vest and kevlar helmet. Chris McCurley was a Captain in the Etowah County, Alabama Drug Task Force, and was killed in 1997 by a drug dealer who was using protective body armor. | 42 USC 379ll-3 | 107-273, div. C, title I, section 11099 | 116 Stat 1819 | Y |
Findings in legilsation. Also Guelff - CR S535-536, Jan. 24, 2001, Statement of Sen. Dianne Feinstein; |
Senate version sponsored by Sen. Feinstein (CA) | ||
| Rosa's Law | Victim | Rosa's Law | "Rosa's Law" | Rosa Marcellino, an 8-year-old girl with intellectual disabilities, whose parents and older siblings had become advocates for eliminating the use of the phrase "mentally retarded" in public policy and laws because of the stigma and discrimination it invites. | 20 USC 1400 (note) | 111-256 | 124 Stat 2643 | Y |
CR S11433, Nov. 17, 2009, Statement of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (sponsor). |
short title | ||
| Securities Exchange Act of 1934 | Description | Securities Exchange Act of 1934 | "Securities Exchange Act of 1934" | 15 USC 78a | Ch. 404, 48 Stat 881 | |||||||
| Gillespie-Tillman Resolution; Tillman-Gillespie Resolution (Transportation of Coal and Oil) | Sponsor | Gillespie-Tillman Resolution; Tillman-Gillespie Resolution (Transportation of Coal and Oil) | NO short title | Sen. Benjamin Tillman (D-SC) and Rep. Oscar Gillespie (D-TX), sponsors | No. 8, 34 Stat 823 | X |
http://books.google.com/books?id=fx0pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198...... see also - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E13F73B5A12738DDDAA099... http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000274; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000198 |
Contemporary industry publication (Freight, The Shippers Forum, Volumes V and VI, p 198, available through Google books) refers to resolution as Tillman-Gillespie | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1938" | Ch. 359, 50 Stat 261 | ||||||||
| Landrum-Griffin Act (See Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | Sponsor | Landrum-Griffin Act (See Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | "Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959" | Sen. Robert Paul Griffin, (R-MI); Rep. Philip Mitchell Landrum, (D-GA) | 29 USC 401 | 86-257 | 73 Stat 519 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000054 |
short title at beginning; "Landrum-Griffin" not statutized |