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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truman-Hobbs Act (aka Hobbs Bridge Act) | Sponsor | Truman-Hobbs Act (aka Hobbs Bridge Act) | NO short title | Sen. Harry S. Truman (future POTUS); (D-MO); Rep. Samuel Francis Hobbs, (D-AL) | 33 USC 511 (note) | ch 409, 54 Stat 497 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000387; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000663; |
name not statutized | |||
| SARA | Abbreviation | SARA | "Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986" | 42 USC 9601 | 99-499 | 100 Stat 1613 | N | "SARA" statutized by reference in 113 Stat 1047 (1999) | ||||
| Father Aull Site Transfer Act of 1996 | Location | Father Aull Site Transfer Act of 1996 | NO short title | Father Roger Aull, a German Jesuit priest who lived near Silver City, NM. His home and chapel were on BLM land, which was isolated and vandalized. The bill transferred the land to a local church to maintain. | 104-208, div A, title I, Section 101(d) | 110 Stat 3009-181 | N |
104 Cong. Rec. 12399 (Aug. 11, 1995) (statement of Sen. Domenici) |
nothing in statute | |||
| U.S. SAFE WEB Act of 2006 | Acrostic | U.S. SAFE WEB Act of 2006 | "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" or "U.S. SAFE WEB Act of 2006" | 15 USC 58 | 109-455 | 120 Stat 3372 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Dickstein Alien Officials Act (see Immigration Act of 1924) | Sponsor | Dickstein Alien Officials Act (see Immigration Act of 1924) | "The Immigration Act of 1924" | Samuel Dickstein, (D-NY) | ch 190, 43 Stat 153 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000335 |
short title at beginning - "The Immigration Act of 1924" | ||||
| Burton-Hill Hospital Survey of Construction Act (see Hospital Survey and Construction Act) | Sponsor | Burton-Hill Hospital Survey of Construction Act (see Hospital Survey and Construction Act) | "Hospital Survey and Construction Act" | Sen. Harold Hitz Burton (R-OH); Sen. Joseph Lister Hill (D-AL) | ch 958, 60 Stat 1040 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001150; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000598 |
short title is "Hospital Survey and Construction Act" | ||||
| Ready to Learn Act | Political Description | Ready to Learn Act | "Ready to Learn Act" | 20 USC 6301 | 102-545 | 106 Stat 3586 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Mrs. Murphy (Civil Rights Act) Exemption | Undefined | Mrs. Murphy (Civil Rights Act) Exemption | NO short title | Mrs. Murphy was not a real person, but a hypothetical small boarding house owner, who would be exempted from the requirements of the Civil Rights Act. The hypothetical character was created by Republican Senator George Aiken of Vermont and the name caught on. | 42 USC 3603(b)(2) | 90-284, title VIII, section 803(b)(2) | 82 Stat 82 | N |
James D. Walsh, Reaching Mrs. Murphy: A Call for Repeal of the Mrs. Murphy Exemption to the Fair Housing Act, 34 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 605 (1999) at n. 3. |
name not statutized | ||
| Suzanne's Law | Victim | Suzanne's Law | NO short title | Suzanne Lyall, who disappeared in 1998 at age 19 from SUNY-Albany. | 42 USC 5779 | 101-647, title XXXVII | 104 Stat 4966 | N | NOTE: This provision was originally enacted in 1990, but Suzanne's Law was actually a provision in the PROTECT Act of 2003 (117 Stat 650, Section 204) that changed from 18 to 21 the age under which any law enforcement agency must report a missing person to the National Crime Information Center. | |||
| Tincher-Capper Act (Grain Futures) (see Commodity Exchange Act) | Sponsor | Tincher-Capper Act (Grain Futures) (see Commodity Exchange Act) | "The Grain Futures Act" | Sen. Arthur Capper, 1919-45, (R-KA); Rep. Jasper Napoleon Tincher, (R-KA) | 7 USC 1 | ch 369, 42 Stat 998 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000133; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000282 |
"Tincher-Capper" not statutized |