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 |
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Brooks Act (Architects and Engineers) (see Brooks Architect-Engineers Act) | Sponsor | Brooks Act (Architects and Engineers) (see Brooks Architect-Engineers Act) | NO short title | Rep. Overton Brooks (D-LA), served on the Committee on Science and Aeronautics. | 92-582 | 86 Stat 1278 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000884 |
Kind of odd. Info in Table is "June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title IX, as added Oct 27, 1972, Pub. L. 92-582, 86 Stat. 1278" No name in statute; amended to add short title "Brooks Architect-Engineers Act" by 108 Stat 3409 in 1994 | |||
Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act | Sponsor | Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act | NO short title | Sen. Hoke Smith (D-GA) and Rep. Dudley Hughes (D-GA) | 20 USC 11 (note) | ch 114, 39 Stat 929 | Y |
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/camp.html; Smith - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000551; Hughes - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000920 |
"Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act" statutized by 60 Stat 775 | |||
Jones Act (Puerto Rico) (see Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) | Sponsor | Jones Act (Puerto Rico) (see Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) | NO short title | Rep. William Atkinson Jones, (D-VA) | 48 USC 731 | ch 145, 39 Stat 951 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000259 |
Jones not statutized, included in note in code | |||
Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 | Description | Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 | "Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932" | Ch. 520, 47 Stat 709 | ||||||||
Ramspeck-Mead Act | Sponsor | Ramspeck-Mead Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D-GA); Sen. James Mead (D-NY) | ch 346, 55 Stat 613 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000032; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000615 |
nothing in statute; amending Classification Act of 1923 | ||||
Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | Sponsor | Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | "World War Veterans' Act, 1924" | Sen. David Aiken Reed (R-PA); Rep. Royal Cleaves Johnson (R-SD, Chairman of the Committee on WW Veterans' Legislation) | ch 320, 43 Stat 607 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000114; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000173 |
The PNT and some secondary sources link Reed-Johnson and the WW Veterans' Act, but other sources link Reed-Johnson with the Immigration Act of 1924, which was 43 Stat. 153. | ||||
Ellender Sugar Act (see Sugar Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Ellender Sugar Act (see Sugar Act of 1937) | NO short title | Sen. Allen Ellender (D-LA) | ch 898, 50 Stat 903 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000112 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Wei Jingsheng Freedom of Conscience Act | Private Law | Wei Jingsheng Freedom of Conscience Act | "Wei Jingsheng Freedom of Conscience Act" | Private Bill granted permanent resident status for Chinese pro-democracy activist Wei Jinsheng. | Private Law 106-14 | Private Law | Private bill; noted here because the private laws are generally not included in the PNT | |||||
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 | Honor | William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 | "William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008" | William Wilberforce, British MP who fought to end the slave trade and abolish slavery. | 22 USC 7101 (note) | 110-457 | 122 Stat 5044 | Y |
110 CR H14113, Dec. 4, 2007; http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilberforce_william.shtml |
Named for British MP who fought to end the slave trade | ||
Baby Doe Amendment | Case | Baby Doe Amendment | NO short title | Series of "Baby Doe" child endangerment cases in the early 1980s. | 98-457, title I part B | 98 Stat 1752 | N |
Kathryn Moss, "The 'Baby Doe' Legislation Its Rise and Fall" Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 4 (June 1987) |
services and treatment for disabled infants -- possible that "Baby Doe" was an individual infant and this was passed in response?? |