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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindbergh Kidnapping Act (see Kidnapping Act) | Victim | Lindbergh Kidnapping Act (see Kidnapping Act) | NO short title | The son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, kidnapped March 2, 1932. | 47 Stat 326 | N |
Bomar, "The Lindbergh Law," Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct. 1934), available http://www.jstor.org/stable/1189659. |
nothing in statute | ||||
| La Follette Hours of Labor Act (Railroads) (see Hours of Service Act (Railroads)) | Sponsor | La Follette Hours of Labor Act (Railroads) (see Hours of Service Act (Railroads)) | NO short title | Sen. Robert Marion La Follette, (R-WI) | 45 USC 61 | ch 2939, 34 Stat 1415 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000004 |
name not statutized | |||
| Mitchell Act (Columbia River Basin Fishery Development) | Honor | Mitchell Act (Columbia River Basin Fishery Development) | NO short title | Hugh C. Mitchell, director of Fish Culture for the State of Oregon in the 1930s | 16 USC 755 | ch 193, 52 Stat 345 | N |
http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/mitchell_act_1938_/ |
name not statutized | |||
| ADAMHA Reorganization Act | Institution | ADAMHA Reorganization Act | "ADAMHA Reorganization Act" | 42 USC 201 | 102-321 | 106 Stat 323 | N | short title; ADAMHA = Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration | ||||
| Jadwin Act (see Flood Control Act of 1928) | Honor | Jadwin Act (see Flood Control Act of 1928) | NO short title | Lt. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, who developed the plan for dealing with Mississippi floods, adopted by the Flood Control Act of 1928. | 33 USC 702a | ch 569, 45 Stat 534 | N | name not statutized | ||||
| Raker Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | Sponsor | Raker Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | NO short title | Rep. John Edward Raker, (D-CA) | 43 USC 511 | ch 190, 42 Stat 541 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000019 |
name not statutized | |||
| Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (see Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) | Sponsor | Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (see Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) | "Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985" | Sen. William Philip Gramm, (R-TX); Sen. Warren Bruce Rudman, (R-NH); Sen. Ernest Frederick Hollings, (D-SC) | 2 USC 900 | 99-177, title II | 99 Stat 1038 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000365; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000497; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000725 |
"Gramm-Rudman-Hollings" not statutized | ||
| Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995 | Location | Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995 | "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995" | President Woodrow Wilson | 104-59, title IV | 109 Stat 627 | N | name of title and short title; bridge had previously been named for Wilson | ||||
| USA Act | Acrostic | USA Act | "Unity in the Spirit of America Act" or the "USA Act" | 42 USC 12501 | 107-117, div B, S1301 | 115 Stat 2339 | N | short title at beginning of S 1301 | ||||
| TRICARE Affirmation Act | Abbreviation | TRICARE Affirmation Act | "TRICARE Affirmative Act" | 26 USC 1 | 111-159 | 124 Stat 1123 | N | short title at beginning of statute; no indication what TRICARE is |