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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith Act of 1940 | Sponsor | Smith Act of 1940 | "Alien Registration Act, 1940" | Rep. Howard W. Smith of (D-VA) | ch 439, title I, 54 Stat 670 | N |
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/smithactof1940.html; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000554 |
short title is "Alien Registration Act, 1940" - section 41 | ||||
| Automobile Dealers' Day in Court Act | Political Description | Automobile Dealers' Day in Court Act | NO short title | 15 USC 1221 | ch 1038, 70 Stat 1125 | N | not statutized, but the official title is the longest and most political I've ever seen | |||||
| Crawford National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act | Institution | Crawford National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act | "Crawford National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act" | Fish hatchery previously named "Crawford" | 104-215 | 110 Stat 3018 | N | short title - fish hatchery was already named Crawford | ||||
| Rural AED Act | Abbreviation | Rural AED Act | "Rural Access to Emergency Devices Act" or "Rural AED Act" | 42 USC 254c note | 106-505, title IV, subtitle B (S411) | 114 Stat 2340 | N | short title at beginning of subtitle B | ||||
| Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | Sponsor | Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | "World War Veterans' Act, 1924" | Sen. David Aiken Reed (R-PA); Rep. Royal Cleaves Johnson (R-SD, Chairman of the Committee on WW Veterans' Legislation) | ch 320, 43 Stat 607 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000114; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000173 |
The PNT and some secondary sources link Reed-Johnson and the WW Veterans' Act, but other sources link Reed-Johnson with the Immigration Act of 1924, which was 43 Stat. 153. | ||||
| Shirley Temple Act (Child Labor) | Honor | Shirley Temple Act (Child Labor) | NO short title | Child actress Shirley Temple (later Shirley Temple Black) | 29 USC 213 (c ) | ch 676, section 13 (c ), 52 Stat 1068 | N |
Comment, Teenage Employment Emancipation and the Law, 9 U.PA. Journal of Labor and Employment Law 389, http://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jbl/articles/volume9/issue2/Ang9U.Pa.J... |
nothing in statute; exemption from prohibition on child labor for kids in agriculture not required to attend school and kids in motion pictures; name not statutized | |||
| Gwynne Act | Sponsor | Gwynne Act | "Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947" | Rep. John Williams Gwynne, (R-IA) | ch. 52, 61 Stat 84 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000543 |
nothing in statute; but full title refers to Walsh-Healey Act and Bacon-Davis Act | ||||
| Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Act of 1992 | Political Description | Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Act of 1992 | "Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Act of 1992" | 42 USC 12705a | 102-550, title XII | 106 Stat 3938 | N | short title at beginning of title XII | ||||
| Kinkaid Act (Homestead Entries in Nebraska) | Sponsor | Kinkaid Act (Homestead Entries in Nebraska) | NO short title | Rep. Moses Kinkaid (R-NE), introduced | 43 USC 224 | ch. 1801, 33 Stat 547 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000221; http://blog.nebraskahistory.org/?p=663 |
name not statutized; amended Homestead Act to allow for homesteads in NE | |||
| Steagall National Housing Act of 1938 (see National Housing Act Amendments of 1938) (aka Steagall-Wagner National Housing Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Steagall National Housing Act of 1938 (see National Housing Act Amendments of 1938) (aka Steagall-Wagner National Housing Act of 1938) | "National Housing Act Amendments of 1938" | Rep. Henry Bascom Steagall, (D-AL) | 12 USC 1701a | ch 13, 52 Stat 8 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000820 |
short title at beginning; no mention of Steagall or Wagner in code |