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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas Act | Sponsor | Lucas Act | NO short title | Sen. Scott Lucas (D-IL) | ch. 864, 60 Stat 902 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000493 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Linthicum-Moses Act (see Foreign Service Act) | Sponsor | Linthicum-Moses Act (see Foreign Service Act) | NO short title | Rep. John Charles Linthicum, (D-MA); Sen. George Higgins Moses, (R-N.H.) | ch 182, 43 Stat 140 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000340; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001028 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Ellender Sugar Act (see Sugar Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Ellender Sugar Act (see Sugar Act of 1937) | NO short title | Sen. Allen Ellender (D-LA) | ch 898, 50 Stat 903 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000112 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Tydings Amendment | Sponsor | Tydings Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Millard Tydings (D-MD) | ch 638, 56 Stat 1018 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000446 |
nothing in statute; selective service | ||||
| Force Act (Suits Against Revenue Officers) | Description | Force Act (Suits Against Revenue Officers) | NO short title | ch 57, S3, 4 Stat 633 | X | nothing in statute | ||||||
| Payne-Aldrich Act (Tariff) | Sponsor | Payne-Aldrich Act (Tariff) | NO short title | Rep. Sereno Elisha Payne, (R-N.Y.); Sen. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, (R-R.I.) | ch 6, 36 Stat 11 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000153; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Capeheart Housing Act | Sponsor | Capeheart Housing Act | NO short title | Sen. Homer Capeheart (R-IN) | ch. 783, 69 Stat 646 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000128 |
no name in statute, although it specifies that it amends the "National Housing Act" | ||||
| Fitzgerald-Tyson Act (see Emergency Officers' Retirement Act) | Sponsor | Fitzgerald-Tyson Act (see Emergency Officers' Retirement Act) | NO short title | Sen. Lawrence Davis Tyson (D-TN); Rep. Roy G. Fitzgerald (R-OH) | ch 735, 45 Stat 735 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000456; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000166 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Nelson Act (Department of Commerce and Labor) (see Department of Commerce and Labor Act) | Sponsor | Nelson Act (Department of Commerce and Labor) (see Department of Commerce and Labor Act) | NO short title | Sen. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 552, 32 Stat 825 | X |
http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_14.htm; http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00578.xml |
establishing Dept. of Commerce and Labor; introduced by Sen. William Frye (ME) but he doesn't get the name (see http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/dolorigabridge.htm); the statute establishing the Dept. of Labor does not mention Nelson or Lodge | ||||
| O'Mahoney-Hatch Act | Sponsor | O'Mahoney-Hatch Act | NO short title | Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney (D-WY); Sen. Carl Hatch (D-NM) | ch 916, 60 Stat 950 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000088; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000334 |
nothing in statute; mineral rights |