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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sponsor | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | "Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002" | Sen. Paul Sarbanes, (D-MD); Rep. Michael Oxley (R-OH) | 15 USC 7201 (note) | 107-204 | 116 Stat 745 | Y |
Nance Lucas, An Interview with United States Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXD/is_1_11/ai_n25101748/; Sarbanes-Oxley Essential Information, sox-online.com, http://www.sox-online.com/basics.html; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000064; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000163 |
short title | ||
| Rosa's Law | Victim | Rosa's Law | "Rosa's Law" | Rosa Marcellino, an 8-year-old girl with intellectual disabilities, whose parents and older siblings had become advocates for eliminating the use of the phrase "mentally retarded" in public policy and laws because of the stigma and discrimination it invites. | 20 USC 1400 (note) | 111-256 | 124 Stat 2643 | Y |
CR S11433, Nov. 17, 2009, Statement of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (sponsor). |
short title | ||
| Government in the Sunshine Act | Political Description | Government in the Sunshine Act | "Government in the Sunshine Act" | 5 USC 552b | 94-409 | 90 Stat 1241 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Kristen's Act | Victim | Kristen's Act | "Kristen's Act" | Kristen Moderfferi, a constituent of the law's sponsor (Rep. Sue Myrick), who disappeared in 1997 after her freshman year in college. | 42 USC 14661 (note) | 106-468 | 114 Stat 2027 | Y |
CR H10453, Oct. 19, 2000, Statement of Rep. Sue Myrick. |
short title; finding missing adults | ||
| STEP Act | Acrostic | STEP Act | "Supporting Teens through Education and Protection Act of 2005" or "STEP Act" | 42 USC 14043c-3(a) | 103-322, title IV, S 41204; as added 109-162, title III, S 303 | 119 Stat 3010 | Y | short title at beginning of section | ||||
| Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | Honor | Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 | "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009" | Lilly Ledbetter was a manager at a Goodyear plant in Alabama who sued the company for sex discrimination in pay practices. When she lost her case before the Supreme Court, the Congress changed the law to increase the time workers have to sue their employers for pay discrimination. | 42 USC 2000a (note) | 111-2 | 123 Stat 5 | Y |
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1874954,00.html |
short title | ||
| Robertson-Pittman Wildlife Restoration Act (see Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act) | Sponsor | Robertson-Pittman Wildlife Restoration Act (see Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act) | NO short title | Sen. Key Pittman (D-NV) and Rep. Absalom Robert (D-VA) | 16 USC 669 | ch 899, 50 Stat 917 | Y |
Pittman - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000372; Robertson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000317 |
statutized as "Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act" by S. 101(b) of 114 Stat 1762 | |||
| Terry Beirn Community Based AIDS Research Initiative Act of 1991 | Honor/Victim | Terry Beirn Community Based AIDS Research Initiative Act of 1991 | long title and short title - "Terry Beirn Communited Based AIDS Research Initiative Act of 1991" | Terry Beirn worked for amfAR and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on AIDS legislation. He died in 1991. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 102-96 | 105 Stat 481 | Y | short title and named in long title; renaming community-based clinical trial programs in Beirn's honor | |||
| John William Rolen Act | Honor | John William Rolen Act | "John William Rolen Act" | Bill Rolen, was Executive Director of the American Ex-POWs, died in fall 1999. | 38 USC 101 (note) | 106-117, title V, section 501 | 113 Stat 1573 | Y |
http://rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=bbd6b23... |
short title | ||
| Gaylord A. Nelson Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Wildneress Act | Award | Gaylord A. Nelson Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Wildneress Act | "Gaylord A. Nelson Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Wildneress Act" | Sen. Gaylord Anton Nelson, dem, Senate: 1963-1981, Wisconsin. Founder of Earth Day; Presidential medal of freedom. This is a tribute statute. | 16 USC 1132 | 108-447, div. E, Title I, Section 140 | 118 Stat 3069 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000033 |
short title; statute also conferred the name "Gaylord A. Nelson" on the wilderness area |