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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 | Description | Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 | "Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934" | Ch. 756, 48 Stat 1224 | ||||||||
| Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act (see National Labor Relations Act) | Sponsor | Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act (see National Labor Relations Act) | "National Labor Relations Act" | Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-NY); William Patrick Connery, Jr., (D-MA) (Note there are two Connery's, but this one was on the House Committee on Labor, so likely on the bill?) | 29 USC 151 | ch 372, 49 Stat 449 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000694 |
short title at end - "National Labor Relations Act"; "Wagner-Connery" not statutized | |||
| Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Designation Act | Honor | Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Designation Act | "Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center Designation Act" | Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an author and conservation activist who wrote about and advocated the preserveration of the Everglades. Ernest F. Coe led the creation of Everglades National Park. | 16 USC 410r-5 (note) | 105-82 | 111 Stat 1540 | Y |
Findings in text of legislation. |
short title and long title; findings have information about the individuals for whom the park and center are named | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Davis-Bacon Act | Sponsor | Davis-Bacon Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert L. Bacon (R-NY) (1923-1938); Sen. James John Davis (R-PA) (1930-1945) | 40 U.S.C. 3141-3148 | ch. 411, 46 Stat 1494 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000019; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000111 |
statutized as "Davis-Bacon Act" by 116 Stat. 1062 (2002); also listed in PNT as "Bacon-Davis Act" | |||
| 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 | ||
| Porter Resolution (Narcotic Drugs) | Sponsor | Porter Resolution (Narcotic Drugs) | NO short title | Rep. Stephen Geyer Porter, (R-PA) | ch 190, 42 Stat 1431 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000447 |
nothing in statute; asking President to ask other countries not to grow so many drugs | ||||
| 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 |