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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covering-in Act | Description | Covering-in Act | NO short title | ch 328, section 5, 18 Stat 110 | N | no idea what "covering-in" is | ||||||
| Jones Act (Puerto Rico) (see Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) | Sponsor | Jones Act (Puerto Rico) (see Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) | NO short title | Rep. William Atkinson Jones, (D-VA) | 48 USC 731 | ch 145, 39 Stat 951 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000259 |
Jones not statutized, included in note in code | |||
| Lee-Caraway-Gearhart Act (Cotton and Tobacco) (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Lee-Caraway-Gearhart Act (Cotton and Tobacco) (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938" | Sen. Joshua Bryan Lee, (D-OK); Sen. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, (D-AK); Rep. Bertrand Wesley Gearhart, (R-CA) | 7 USC 1281 | ch 30, 52 Stat 31 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000198; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000138; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000111 |
"Lee-Caraway-Gearhart" not statutized; short title at beginning | |||
| O and P Nonimmigrant Amendments of 1991 | Description | O and P Nonimmigrant Amendments of 1991 | "O and P Nonimmigrant Amendments of 1991" | 8 USC 1101 (note) | 102-232, title II | 105 Stat 1736 | N | short title; "O" and "P" refer to sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act | ||||
| REAL ID Act of 2005 | Political Description | REAL ID Act of 2005 | "REAL ID Act of 2005" | 8 USC 1101 | 109-13, div B | 119 Stat 302 | N | short title at beginning of division B; although REAL ID is capitalized, no indication it's an acronym | ||||
| Lowden Act (Purchase of Embassy Buildings, etc.) | Sponsor | Lowden Act (Purchase of Embassy Buildings, etc.) | NO short title | Rep. Frank Orren Lowden, (R-IL) | 22 USC 133 | ch. 105, 36 Stat 917 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000472 |
Repealed by ch. 250, Section 7, 44 Stat 405; not statutized | |||
| Celler-Hennings Act of 1958 | Sponsor | Celler-Hennings Act of 1958 | NO short title | Rep. Emanuel Celler, (D-NY); Sen. Thomas Carey Hennings, Jr., (D-MO). | 28 USC 334 | 85-752 | 72 Stat 845 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000264; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000502 |
name not statutized | ||
| Buy American Act | Political Description | Buy American Act | NO short title | 41 USC 101 | ch 212, title III, 47 Stat 1520 | N | amended to include "Buy American Act" as short title in 1994 by 108 Stat 3409 | |||||
| Quiet Communities Act of 1978 | Political Description | Quiet Communities Act of 1978 | "Quiet Communities Act of 1978" | 42 USC 4901 | 95-609 | 92 Stat 3079 | N | short title at beginning of statute; amending Noise Control Act of 1972 | ||||
| HUBZones in Native America Act of 2000 | Abbreviation | HUBZones in Native America Act of 2000 | "HUBZones in Native America Act of 2000" | 15 USC 631 | 106-554, S1(a)(9) [title VI, subtitle A, S 601 et seq) | 114 Stat 2763, 2763A-697 | N | short title at beginning of subtitle A; HUBZone is defined as "historically underutilized zone" |