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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Newlands Act (Irrigation) (see Reclamation Act; National Irrigation Act of 1902) | Sponsor | Newlands Act (Irrigation) (see Reclamation Act; National Irrigation Act of 1902) | NO short title | Rep. Francis Newlands (D-NV) | 43 USC 371 | ch 1093, 32 Stat 388 | N |
http://www.ccrh.org/comm/umatilla/primary/newlands.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000069 |
name not statutized; aka the Reclamation Act; introduced by Rep. Francis Newlands of NV; Amended by Reclamation Project Act of 1939 and of 1982 | |||
| Baldwin Amendment | Sponsor | Baldwin Amendment | NO short title | Rep. John Finley Baldwin, Jr., (R-CA) | Amending 1USC 23 | 89-139 section 4(a) | 79 Stat 578 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000092 |
"Baldwin" not statutized; highway safety programs | ||
| Craig Recreation Land Purchast Act | Location | Craig Recreation Land Purchast Act | "Craig Recreation Land Purchase Act" | Craig, AK | 108-325 | 118 Stat 1268 | N | Craig is a city in Alaska | ||||
| 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" | ||||||
| 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" | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Tucker Act (Admiralty-Limitations) | Sponsor | Tucker Act (Admiralty-Limitations) | NO short title | Most likely Rep. John Randolph Tucker (D-VA), who was not the sponsor of this Act, but of the 1887 Tucker Act. | ch 315, 47 Stat 420 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000401 |
refers by name to Tucker Act of Mar 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 505 | ||||
| Sterling Act (Employers' Liability) (see Employers' Liability Act (1908) (Railroads)) | Sponsor | Sterling Act (Employers' Liability) (see Employers' Liability Act (1908) (Railroads)) | NO short title | Rep. John Allen Sterling, (R-IL) | 45 USC 51 | ch 149, 35 Stat 65 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000870 |
name not statutized |