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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991 | Honor | Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991 | "North/South Center Act of 1991" | Rep. Dante B. Fascell (FL) | 22 USC 2075(a) | 102-138, title II, Section 208 | 105 Stat 694 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000041 |
1991 act created "North/South Center" but "Dante B. Fascell" was statutized by 113 Stat 54 (in 1996), which both named the Center for Fascell and amended the earlier act to change the short title | ||
| Father Theodore M. Hesburgh Congressional Gold Medal Act | Award | Father Theodore M. Hesburgh Congressional Gold Medal Act | "Father Theodore M. Hesburgh Congressional Gold Medal Act" | Father Theodore Hesburgh was president of Notre Dame University. | 31 USC 5111 (note) | 106-153 | 113 Stat 1733 | Y | title of statute and short title; awarding congressional gold medal | |||
| Chris Zajicek Memorial Land Exchange Act of 2004 | Honor | Chris Zajicek Memorial Land Exchange Act of 2004 | "Chris Zajicek Memorial Land Exchange Act of 2004" | Likely named for Chris Zajicek, accquisition specialist w/ the US Forest Service. | 108-447, div. E, Title III, Section 347 | 118 Stat 3106 | Y |
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/101600/met_4344221.html |
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| Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 | Victim | Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 | "Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007" | Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American young man from Chicago who was brutally tortured and murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The killers were tried but acquitted by an all-white jury. | 28 USC 509 (note) | 110-344 | 122 Stat 3934 | Y |
H.Rpt.110-200, June 19, 2007. |
title of statute and short title | ||
| Jencks Act | Case | Jencks Act | NO short title | Named for Clinton Jencks, a union organizer whose appeal to the Supreme Court (in Jencks v. US, 353 US 657 (1957)) spurred Congress to pass a law requiring prosecutors to produce a verbatim statement or report made by government witnesses in federal criminal trials. | 18 USC 3500 | 85-269 | 71 Stat 595 | Y |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/dec/31/guardianobituaries.film |
name not statutized; BUT referred to as "Jencks Act" in notes by the Advisory Committee on Rules in the 1983 FRCP revisions | ||
| McKinney Act (see McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) | Sponsor | McKinney Act (see McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) | "Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act" | Rep. Stewart McKinney, (R-CT); Rep. Bruce Vento, (D-Farmour-Labour-MN) | 42 USC 11301 (note) | 100-77 | 101 Stat 482 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000087 |
referred to as "McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act" in 115 Stat 1425 (2002); (also referenced as "McKinney-Vento" throughout 118 Stat 3 | ||
| Claiborne Pell Institute for International Relations and Public Policy Act | Honor | Claiborne Pell Institute for International Relations and Public Policy Act | "Claiborne Pell Institute for International Relations and Public Policy Act" | grant to establish and maintain a center at Salve University named for Sen. Claiborne Pell (RI) | 104-319, title III | 110 Stat 3867 | Y | title of Title III and short title | ||||
| Johanna's Law (aka Gynecological Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005) | Victim | Johanna's Law (aka Gynecological Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005) | "Johanna's Law" or "Gynecological Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005" | Johanna Silver Gordon, who died of ovarian cancer that was not detected until late in its development because she was not educated about the early signs. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 109-475 | 120 Stat 3565 | Y |
CR H8626, Nov. 14, 2006, Statement of Rep. Sandy Levin. |
short title gives both names; section 2 seems to amend USC to specifically insert "Johanna's Law" at 42 USC 247b-17 | ||
| Taft-Hartley Act (see Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947) | Sponsor | Taft-Hartley Act (see Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947) | "Labor Management Relations Act, 1947" | Sen. Robert Taft, (R-OH); Rep. Fred Hartley, (R-N.J.) | 29 USC 141(a) | ch 120, 61 Stat 136 | Y |
Taft-Hartley Labor Act, infoplease.com, http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0847620.html; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000009; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000298 |
short title at beginning - "Labor Management Relations Act, 1947"; "Taft-Hartley" name statutized by mention in PL 105-258, 112 Stat 1902 (1998) but direct mention was dropped when in codification, see notes in codification | |||
| Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act | Institution | Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act | "Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act" | Sen. Hubert Humphrey (MN) and Sen. Everett Dirksen (IL). | 20 USC 2566 (note) | 95-270 | 92 Stat 220 | Y |
Humphrey - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953; Dirksen - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000360 |
authorizing funds for institutes already named for Humphrey and Dirksen |