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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johanna's Law (aka Gynecological Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005) | Victim | Johanna's Law (aka Gynecological Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005) | "Johanna's Law" or "Gynecological Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005" | Johanna Silver Gordon, who died of ovarian cancer that was not detected until late in its development because she was not educated about the early signs. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 109-475 | 120 Stat 3565 | Y |
CR H8626, Nov. 14, 2006, Statement of Rep. Sandy Levin. |
short title gives both names; section 2 seems to amend USC to specifically insert "Johanna's Law" at 42 USC 247b-17 | ||
| Warren Act (Reclamation) | Sponsor | Warren Act (Reclamation) | NO short title | Sen Francis Emroy Warren, (R-WY) | 43 USC 523 (note) | ch 141, 36 Stat 925 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000164 |
name not statutized; "Warren Act" noted in USC | |||
| McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (see Service Contract Act of 1965) | Sponsor | McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (see Service Contract Act of 1965) | "Service Contract Act of 1965" | Sen. Patrick Vincent McNamara (D-MI); Rep. James G. O'Hara (D-MI) | 89-286 | 79 Stat 1034 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000582; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000055 (see also Dantran, Inc. v. U.S. Dept. of Labor, 246 F.3d 36 (1st Cir. 2001) n. 9. |
short title at beginning - "Service Contract Act of 1965" | |||
| Pittman Embassy Picketing Act | Sponsor | Pittman Embassy Picketing Act | NO short title | Sen. Key Pittman, (D-NV) | 22 USC 255a, 255b | ch 29, 52 Stat 30 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000372 |
repealed, not statutized; prohibiting picketing (except for labor disputes) in front of embassies | |||
| HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Mainstreet Rejuvination and Housing Act of 2003 | Political Description | HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Mainstreet Rejuvination and Housing Act of 2003 | "HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community Mainstreet Rejuvination and Housing Act of 2003" | 42 USC 1437 | 108-186 | 117 Stat 2693 | N | short title at beginning of statute; HOPE is capitalized but does not seem to be an acronym | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932" | 47 Stat 525 | ||||||||
| Van Nuys Anti-Trust Act | Sponsor | Van Nuys Anti-Trust Act | NO short title | Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, (D-IN) | 15 USC 16 (note) | ch 589, 56 Stat 781 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000050 |
not statutized | |||
| Stone Act | Description | Stone Act | NO short title | Stone almost certainly refers to the physical object. The act is referred to as the Building Stone Act at 43 CFR 3809.5. | 30 USC 161 | ch 375, 27 Stat 348 | N | name not statutized; about mining (stone as an object, probably not a name) | ||||
| Taylor Grazing Act | Sponsor | Taylor Grazing Act | NO short title | Rep. Edward T. Taylor, (D-CO) | 43 USC 315 (note) | ch 865, 48 Stat 1269 | Y |
Frederick W. Obermiller, Did Congress Intend To Recognize Grazing Rights?: An Alternative Perspective on the Taylor Grazing Act, 18 Rangelands 186, 186 (1996), http://www.jstor.org/pss/4001325; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000072 |
name statutized by reference in 68 Stat 151 (1954) | |||
| Thomas Alva Edison Commemorative Coin Act | Award | Thomas Alva Edison Commemorative Coin Act | "Thomas Alva Edison Commemorative Coin Act " | Inventor and New Jerseyian Thomas A. Edison, in aticipation of the 125th anniversary of his invention of the light bulb. | 31 USC 5112 (note) | 105-331 | 112 Stat 3073 | Y |
Findings in text of legislation. |
short title and long title |