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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| America COMPETES Act | Acrostic | America COMPETES Act | "America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act" or "America COMPETES Act" | 20 USC 9801 | 110-69 | 121 Stat 572 | Y | Reauthorized in 2010 at PL 111-358 | ||||
| Sisk Act | Sponsor | Sisk Act | NO short title | Rep. Bernice Sisk (D-CA) (male) | 16 USC 484a (note) | 90-171 | 81 Stat 531 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000454 |
"Sisk Act" statutized in definitions section 2(a)(11) of 120 Stat 1218; though also mentioned in as "commonly known as Sisk Act" in S.340 of 111 Stat 1603 | ||
| Steagall R.F.C. Relief Organizations Act | Sponsor | Steagall R.F.C. Relief Organizations Act | NO short title | Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D-AL) | ch 32, 52 Stat 79 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000820 |
nothing in statute\ | ||||
| Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act (see War Labor Disputes Act) | Sponsor | Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act (see War Labor Disputes Act) | "War Labor Disputes Act" | Sen. Thomas Connally (D-TX); Rep. Howard Worth (D-VA) | 50 USC App 1501 | ch 144, 57 Stat 163 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000684; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000554 |
"Smith-Connally" not statutized; short title at end - "War Labor Disputes Act" | |||
| Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 | Victim | Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 | "Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998" | Ricky Ray was one of three brothers, all with hemophilia, all of whom contracted HIV from contaminated blood. The family became advoactes for AIDS victims. Ricky Ray died of AIDS in 1992 at age 15. | 42 USC 300c-22 (note) | 105-369 | 112 Stat 3368 | Y |
CR H3379, May 19, 1998, Statement of Rep. Porter Goss. |
short title; creating Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund | ||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1936" | Ch. 39, 49 Stat 67 | ||||||||
| Federal Home Loan Bank Act | Description | Federal Home Loan Bank Act | "Federal Home Loan Bank Act" | 12 USC 1421 | Ch. 522, 47 Stat 725 | |||||||
| Nolan Minimum Wage Law (District of Columbia) (see District of Columbia Minimum Wage Act) | Sponsor | Nolan Minimum Wage Law (District of Columbia) (see District of Columbia Minimum Wage Act) | "District of Columbia minimum-wage law" | John Ignatius Nolan, (R-CA) | ch 174, 40 Stat 960 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000124 |
short title at end - "District of Columbia minimum-wage law"; Nolan was pro-labor rep from CA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I._Nolan | ||||
| Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act | Sponsor | Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act | NO short title | Rep. Douglas Bereuter (R-NE) retired in 2004. | 42 USC 1472(h)(1) | 101-625, Title VII, Section 706(b) | 104 Stat 4284 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000403 |
short title is added by 118 Stat 917 in 2004, which renames section 502 of the 1990 Cranston-Gonzalez Act for Doug Bereuter, who is credited for drafting that section | ||
| Clarke-McNary Act (Reforestration) | Sponsor | Clarke-McNary Act (Reforestration) | NO short title | Rep. John Davenport Clarke, (R-NY); Sen. Charles Linza McNary, (R-OR) | ch. 348, 43 Stat 653 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000583 |
nothing in statute |