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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copeland Firearms Act | Sponsor | Copeland Firearms Act | "Federal Firearms Act" | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland, (D-N.Y.) | 15 USC 901 et seq | ch 850, 52 Stat 1250 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
"Copeland" never statutized, act repealed; short title (at end) | |||
| Landrum-Griffin Act (See Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | Sponsor | Landrum-Griffin Act (See Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | "Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959" | Sen. Robert Paul Griffin, (R-MI); Rep. Philip Mitchell Landrum, (D-GA) | 29 USC 401 | 86-257 | 73 Stat 519 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000054 |
short title at beginning; "Landrum-Griffin" not statutized | ||
| Fallon Rail Freight Loading Facility Transfer Act | Location | Fallon Rail Freight Loading Facility Transfer Act | "Fallon Rail Freight Loading Facility Transfer Act" | Fallon, NV | 107-339 | 116 Stat 2887 | N | short title; Fallon is a city in NV | ||||
| Guffey-Vinson Act (see Bituminous Coal Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Guffey-Vinson Act (see Bituminous Coal Act of 1937) | "Bituminous Coal Act of 1937" | Sen. Joseph E. Guffey, (D-PA); Rep. Frederick Moore Vinson (D-KY) | 15 USC 828 | ch 127, 50 Stat 72 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000519; http://eris.uky.edu/catalog/xt7msb3wtd0h/guide (for why this Vinson - there are two); http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000106 |
"Guffey-Vinson" not statutized; short title at end (section 21) - "Bituminous Coal Act of 1937" | |||
| Wadsworth-Burke Bill (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Wadsworth-Burke Bill (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940" | Sen. Edward Raymond Burke (D-S.D.); Rep. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., (R-N.Y.) | 50 USC App 301 | ch 720, 54 Stat 885 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001089; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000012 |
short title at end - "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940"; "Wadsworth-Burke" not statutized | |||
| Good-McCormick Act (Budget) (see Budget and Accounting Act, 1921) | Sponsor | Good-McCormick Act (Budget) (see Budget and Accounting Act, 1921) | "Budget and Accounting Act, 1921" | Most likely Sen. Joseph McCormick (R-IL), who was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments at the time. Rep. James William Good (R-IA) | ch 18, 42 Stat 20 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000369; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000275 |
short title at beginning "Budget and Accounting Act, 1921" | ||||
| District of Columbia minimum wage law | Description | District of Columbia minimum wage law | "District of Columbia minimum-wage law" | ch 174, 40 Stat 960 | N | short title at end | ||||||
| Green Jobs Act of 2007 | Political Description | Green Jobs Act of 2007 | "Green Jobs Act of 2007" | 29 USC 2801 | 110-140, title X | 121 Stat 1748 | N | short title at beginning of title X | ||||
| Spoils of War Act of 1994 | Political Description | Spoils of War Act of 1994 | "Spoils of War Act of 1994" | 50 USC 2201 | 103-236, title V, part B, S 551 | 108 Stat 482 | N | |||||
| VOICE Act | Acrostic | VOICE Act | "Victims of Iranian Censorship Act" or "VOICE Act" | 22 USC 6201 | 111-84, div A, title XII, subtitle D, S1261 | 123 Stat 2553 | N | short title at beginning of subtitle D |