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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000 | Location | Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000 | "Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000" | Jackson, WY | 106-272 | 114 Stat 797 | Y | short title; Jackson, WY | ||||
| SAFETEA-LU | Acrostic | SAFETEA-LU | Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users or "SAFETEA-LU" | Supposedly named for Lu Young, Rep. Don Young's wife. | 23 USC 101 | 109-59 | 119 Stat 1144 | Y |
http://www.adn.com/2009/08/02/885403/lu-young-wife-of-rep-don-young.html |
short title at beginning - "Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users" or "SAFETEA-LU" | ||
| PRICE of Homeland Security Act | Acrostic | PRICE of Homeland Security Act | "Personnel Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and Enhancement of Homeland Security Act of 2008" or "PRICE of Homeland Security Act" | 6 USC 101 | 110-412 | 122 Stat 4336 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act | Honor | Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act | "Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act" | Rep. George Thomas (Mickey) Leland (TX), was Chairman of the Select Committee on Hunger. Killed in an aircraft crash in Ehtiopia while en route to a UN refugee camp. | 7 uSC 1691 (note) | 101-624, title XVII | 104 Stat 3783 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000237 |
short title at 1701 | ||
| Drive for Teen Employment Act | Political Description | Drive for Teen Employment Act | "Drive for Teen Employment Act" | Cutesy play-on-words -- statute changes the exemption to child labor provisions of the FLSA for teenagers driving cars and trucks in the course of employment. | 29 USC 201 | 105-334 | 112 Stat 3137 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | |||
| Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008 | Victim | Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008 | "Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008" | Named for daughter of Rep. Deborah Pryce (sponsor) who died from neuroblastoma at age 9 in 1999. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-285 | 122 Stat 2628 | Y |
http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/ncicancerbulletin/archive/2008/072208/page6 |
NOTE - name changed in committee, guessing it was someone other than price who made the change | ||
| Food for Progress Act of 1985 | Political Description | Food for Progress Act of 1985 | "Food for Progress Act of 1985" | 7 USC 1736o(a) | 99-198, title XI, S 1110 | 99 Stat 1472 | Y | short title at beginning of S 1110 | ||||
| Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 | Political Description | Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 | "Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996" | Seems likely that "LIBERTAD" is included because portions of the statute are purposively modeled on the FREEDOM Support Act of 1992. (LIBERTAD is Spanish for FREEDOM.) | 22 USC 6021 | 104-114 | 110 Stat 785 | Y |
Section by Section Analysis of Title II, H.Rpt. 104-202, July 24, 1995 |
short title at beginning of statute; seeking sanctions | ||
| Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001 | Description | Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001 | "Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001" | 42 USC 1437 | 107-116, title VI | 115 Stat 2220 | Y | short title at beginning of title VI; can't tell what mark-to-market means | ||||
| STOP Act | Acrostic | STOP Act | "Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act" or "STOP Act" | 42 USC 201 | 109-422 | 120 Stat 2890 | Y |