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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Marketing Act | Description | Agricultural Marketing Act | "Agricultural Marketing Act" | Ch. 24, 46 Stat 11 | ||||||||
| Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge Designation Act of 1987 | Honor | Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge Designation Act of 1987 | "Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge Designation Act of 1987" | Rep. Stewart B. McKinney (CT), died May 7, 1987. | 100-38 | 101 Stat 306 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527 |
short title and long title; changing name of refuge in CT | |||
| Wilmot Proviso (Slavery in Territories) | Sponsor | Wilmot Proviso (Slavery in Territories) | NO short title | Sen. David Wilmot (R-PA) | ch 111, 12 Stat 432 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000566 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvements Act of 2006 | Honor | Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvements Act of 2006 | "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvements Act of 2006" | Rep. Carl D. Perkins (KY) was chair of the Committee on Education and Labor for 16 years until his death in 1984. | 20 USC 2301 (note) | 109-270 | 120 Stat 683 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000230 |
separate entry in table - hard to tell what it really is | ||
| Kilday Bill | Sponsor | Kilday Bill | "Federal Aid Highway Act of 1961" | Rep. Paul Joseph Kilday, (D-TX) | 85-422 | 72 Stat 122 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000171 |
not in statute -- short title is "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1961" | |||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1923" | Ch. 429, 42 Stat 1048 | ||||||||
| Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 | Description | Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 | "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002" | Adds "born-alive infant" to defintion of "person" in 1 USC 1 | 1 USC 1 note | 107-207 | 116 Stat 926 | N |
Text of legislation |
short title at beginning of statute | ||
| Ramspeck Act | Sponsor | Ramspeck Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D-GA) | ch 919, title I, 54 Stat 1211 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000032 |
nothing in statute; civil service act | ||||
| McGillicuddy Act (see Federal Employees' Compensation Act (1916)) | Sponsor | McGillicuddy Act (see Federal Employees' Compensation Act (1916)) | NO short title | Rep. Daniel John McGillicuddy, (D-ME) | ch 458, 39 Stat 742 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000448 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Communications Act of 1934 | Description | Communications Act of 1934 | "Communications Act of 1934" | 47 USC 609 | Ch. 652, 48 Stat 1064 |