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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryson Act | Sponsor | Bryson Act | NO short title | Rep. Joseph Raleigh Bryson, (D-SC) | 35 USC 1 | ch. 950, 66 Stat 792 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000999 |
name not statutized | |||
| Springer Act (see Special Laws Prohibition Act (Territories)) | Sponsor | Springer Act (see Special Laws Prohibition Act (Territories)) | NO short title | Rep. William McKendree Springer, (D-IL) | 48 USC 1471 | ch 818, 24 Stat 170 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000757 |
name not statuted (neither Springer nor Special Laws Prohibition Act) | |||
| Edge Act (see Mineral Leasing Act) | Sponsor | Edge Act (see Mineral Leasing Act) | NO short title | Sen. Walter Evans Edge, (R-NJ) | 30 USC 181 | ch 85, 41 Stat 437 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000044 |
"Mineral Leasing Act" referenced in 74 Stat 781 | |||
| Hobbs Act (Anti-Racketeering) | Sponsor | Hobbs Act (Anti-Racketeering) | NO short title | Rep. Samuel Francis Hobbs, (D-AL) | 18 USC 1951 | ch. 537, 60 Stat 420 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000663 |
name not statutized | |||
| National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 | Description | National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 | "National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005" | 42 USC 201 | 109-60 | 119 Stat 1979 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Morris Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | Sponsor | Morris Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | NO short title | Rep. Robert Page Walter Morris (R-MN) | 25 USC 197 (note) | ch 1157, 32 Stat 400 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000986 |
name not statutized; provides for the disposition of dead timber in MN, so likely named for the Rep. Morris of MN | |||
| McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (see Service Contract Act of 1965) | Sponsor | McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (see Service Contract Act of 1965) | "Service Contract Act of 1965" | Sen. Patrick Vincent McNamara (D-MI); Rep. James G. O'Hara (D-MI) | 89-286 | 79 Stat 1034 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000582; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000055 (see also Dantran, Inc. v. U.S. Dept. of Labor, 246 F.3d 36 (1st Cir. 2001) n. 9. |
short title at beginning - "Service Contract Act of 1965" | |||
| I Am An American Day Act | Description | I Am An American Day Act | NO short title | ch 183, 54 Stat 178 | N | funny name - proclaiming name of day as "I Am An American Day" | ||||||
| EMTALA | Abbreviation | EMTALA | NO short title | 42 USC 1395dd | 99-272, title IX, section 9121(b) | 100 Stat 164 | N | originally ch 541 title XVIII section 1867; updated April 7, 1986; nothing in short title, but EMTALA stands for Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act | ||||
| Esch-Cummins Act (Railroads) (see Transportation Act, 1920) | Sponsor | Esch-Cummins Act (Railroads) (see Transportation Act, 1920) | "Transportation Act, 1920" | Rep. John Jacob Esch (R-WI); Sen. Albert Cummins (D-IA) | ch 91, 41 Sat 456 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000212; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000988 |
short title at beginning "Transportation Act, 1920"; Typo in PNT - listed as "Esch-Cummings" but is really "Esch-Cummins" |