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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Export Apple Act | Description | Export Apple Act | NO short title | 7 USC 581 | ch 59, 48 Stat 123 | Y | amended to include short title as "Export Apple Act" by 113 Stat 1321 (1999); cross-listed as "Export Apple and Pear Act", promiting the export of apples and pears | |||||
| Dutch John Federal Property Disposition And Assistance Act of 1998 | Location | Dutch John Federal Property Disposition And Assistance Act of 1998 | "Dutch John Federal Property Disposition And Assistance Act of 1998" | Dutch John, UT | 16 USC 460v (note) | 105-326 | 112 Stat 3040 | Y |
Text of legislation |
short title; | ||
| HELP Commission Act | Acrostic | HELP Commission Act | "HELP Commission Act" | 22 USC 2394b(a) | 108-199, div B, title VI, Section 637 | 118 Stat 101 | Y | short title at beginning of section; HELP Commission stands for "Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People (HELP) Around the Globe Commission" | ||||
| Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007 | Political Description | Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007 | "Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007" | 42 USC 5601 | 110-240 | 122 Stat 1560 | Y | short title at beginning of statute |