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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Annunzio Act | Honor | Frank Annunzio Act | "Frank Annunzio Act" | Rep. Frank Annunzio (IL), retired in 1992. | 20 USC 5701 (note) | 102-281 | 106 Stat 139 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000212 |
Creating Christopher Columbus coins and fellowships. | ||
| REAL ID Act of 2005 | Political Description | REAL ID Act of 2005 | "REAL ID Act of 2005" | 8 USC 1101 | 109-13, div B | 119 Stat 302 | N | short title at beginning of division B; although REAL ID is capitalized, no indication it's an acronym | ||||
| Hatch Act of 1887 | Sponsor | Hatch Act of 1887 | NO short title | Rep. William Hatch, (D-MO) | 7 USC 361a (note) | 24 Stat 440 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000339 |
amended to include "Hatch Act of 1887" as short title by 112 Stat 525 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Wagner Foreign Credits Act | Sponsor | Wagner Foreign Credits Act | NO short title | Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) | ch 185, 54 Stat 179 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021 |
nothing in statute; actually a joint resolution | ||||
| Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act | Description | Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act | "Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act" | Ch. 7, 48 Stat 344 | ||||||||
| Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States | Description | Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States | "Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States" | Ch. 699, 49 Stat 1807 | ||||||||
| Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928 | Description | Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928 | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928" | Ch. 853, 45 Stat 884 | ||||||||
| William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act | Award | William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act | "William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act" | Rep. William Levi Dawson (IL), attended Fisk University. | 96-374, title XIII, part H, subpart 3 (section 1381) | 94 Stat 1503 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000158 |
short title; establishing named chair at Fisk University |