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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burke-Wadsworth Act (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Burke-Wadsworth Act (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940" | Sen. Edward Raymond Burke (D-S.D.); Rep. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., (R-N.Y.) | 50 USC App 301 et seq | ch 720, 54 Stat 885 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001089; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000012 |
short title is "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940"; "Burke-Wadsworth" not statutized | |||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937" | Ch 277, 50 Stat 213 | ||||||||
| Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act | Victim | Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act | "Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act" | Matthew Shepard was the victim of a hate crime, beaten to death in Laramie, WY in 1998 by two men because he was gay. Jame Byrd, an African-American man from Texas, was killed in 1998 by two white supremacists who chained him to a pickup truck and dragged him to death. | 18 USC 1 (note) | 111-84, div E | 123 Stat 2835 | Y |
"Obama signs hate-crimes law rooted in crimes of 1998," USA Today, Oct. 28, 2009. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/10/620000629/1 |
short title and division title; check original bills -- think the full title changed through the legislative history | ||
| Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006 | Sponsor | Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006 | "Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006" | Amendment to the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 offered by Rep. Jim Wright (TX). | 109-352 | 120 Stat 2011 | Y |
S.Rpt.109-317; Wright - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000763 |
short title | |||
| Hastings Amendment | Sponsor | Hastings Amendment | NO short title | Rep. William Wirt Hastings, (D-OK) | ch. 4, 41 Stat 4 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000333 |
nothing in statute, but this is one section of a larger statute -- Hastings maybe was sponsor of amendment that became that section? | ||||
| Equal Access Act | Political Description | Equal Access Act | "Equal Access Act" | Making it unlawful for a public secondary school or a school that receives Federal financial assistance to deny equal access to school facilities for meetings based on religious, political or philsophical content | 20 USC 4071 | 98-377, title VIII | 98 Stat 1302 | Y | short title of Title VIII and name of Title; | |||
| Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act | Honor | Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act | "Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act" | Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink (HI) who died on Sept. 28, 2002. | 20 USC 1681 (note) | 107-255 | 116 Stat 1734 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000797 |
joint resolution renaming title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for Patsy Takemoto Mink, whereas clauses about her | ||
| Norris Muscle Shoals Act (see Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933) | Description | Norris Muscle Shoals Act (see Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933) | "Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933" | Norris (Sen.) Muscle Shoals Bill was vetoed by Hoover, but then became the basis for the TVA Act in 1933 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_Shoals_Bill | 16 USC 831 | ch 32, 48 Stat 58 | N | "norris" not statutized; short title at beginning | ||||
| Nelson Act (Criminal Appeals) (see Criminal Appeals Act) | Sponsor | Nelson Act (Criminal Appeals) (see Criminal Appeals Act) | NO short title | Sen. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 2564, 34 Stat 1246 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000040 |
nothing in statute; see U.S. v. Mersky, 361 U.S. 431 (1960) at n. 5. | ||||
| McGuire Bill | Sponsor | McGuire Bill | NO short title | Rep. John Andrew McGuire (D-CT) | ch 745, 66 Stat 631 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000465 |
nothing in statute |