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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act | Honor | Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act | "Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act" | James Brady, Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was shot by Hinkley in the course of his assassination attempt. | 18 USC 921 | 103-159 (Title I) | 107 Stat 1536 | Y |
http://www.bradycampaign.org/legislation/backgroundchecks/bradylaw |
name in short title; also Title I listed as "Brady Handgun Control" | ||
| Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | Honor | Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | "Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act" | Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN) and his wife, Sheila. | 107-316 | 116 Stat 2764 | Y |
Legislation (Section 2, findings) |
short title; Wellstones also named in long title; providing money for an existing community center in St Paul, to be renamed for the Wellstones | |||
| PACE-Energy Act | Acrostic | PACE-Energy Act | "Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act" or "PACE-Energy Act" | 42 USC 15801 | 110-69, title V | 121 Stat 600 | Y | short title at beginning of title V | ||||
| Little Cigar Act of 1973 | Description | Little Cigar Act of 1973 | "Little Cigar Act of 1973" | statute is defining "little cigar" and including it in another statute about cigarettes | 15 USC 1331 | 93-109 | 87 Stat 352 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; | |||
| Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Act | Honor | Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Act | "Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992" | Rep. Morris K. Udall (AZ) and his brother Rep. Stewart L. Udall (AZ) | 20 USC 5601 (note) | 102-259 | 106 Stat 78 | Y | Establishing scholarship foundation honoring Morris Udall; Stewart Udall added in 2009. | |||
| Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century | Honor | Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century | "Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century" | Sen. Wendell H. Ford (KY), former Chair of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, retired in 1998. | 49 USC 40101 (note) | 106-181 | 114 Stat 61 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000268 |
short title | ||
| Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 | Acrostic | Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 | "Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000" | 47 USC 1101 | 106-553 S 1(a)(2) [title X} | 114 Stat 2762, 2762A-127 | Y | short title at beginning of title X; title X is "Title X -- LOCAL TV ACT", but otherwise acronym not listed in PNT | ||||
| Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 | Honor | Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 | "Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006" | Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and SNCC organizer. Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader. Coretta Scott King was a civil rights activist and founder of the Center for Nonviolent Social Change. | 42 USC 1971 (note) | 109-246 | 120 Stat 577 | Y |
Hamer - http://www.biography.com/people/fannie-lou-hamer-205625; Parks - http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715?page=1; Scott King - http://www.biography.com/people/coretta-scott-king-9542067. |
short title in Statutes at Large is the "Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006" | ||
| Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 | Acrostic | Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 | "Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009" | 42 USC 11301 | 111-22, div B | 123 Stat 1663 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; acronym not listed in PNT | ||||
| Buy American Act of 1988 | Political Description | Buy American Act of 1988 | "Buy American Act of 1988" | 41 USC 101 | 100-418, title VII | 102 Stat 1545 | Y | short title at beginning of statute |