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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act | Victim | Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act | "Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act" | Army Specialist Joshua Lee Omvig, U.S. Army Reserve 339th Military Police Company from Davenport, Iowa, who committed suicide in 2005 after returning from Iraq. | 38 USC 101 (note) | 110-110 | 121 Stat 1031 | Y |
CR H2774, Mar. 21, 2007, Statement of Rep. Jeff Miller (FL). |
short title | ||
| Mike Mansfield Fellowship Act | Honor | Mike Mansfield Fellowship Act | "Mike Mansfield Fellowship Act" | Hon. Mike Mansfield, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Senator and Rep. from Montana. | 22 USC 6101 (note) | 103-236, title II, part C (section 251) | 108 Stat 428 | Y | short title; creating fellowship named for Mike Mansfield for study in Japan | |||
| Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 | Honor | Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 | "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvements Act of 2006" | 20 USC 2301 (note) | 88-210, 109-270 | 120 Stat 683 | Y | short title is in 109-270 | ||||
| W. J. (Billy) Tauzin Satellite Television Act of 2004 (aka Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004) | Honor | W. J. (Billy) Tauzin Satellite Television Act of 2004 (aka Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004) | "W. J. (Billy) Tauzin Satellite Television Act of 2004 (aka Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004)" | Rep. Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin (LA), chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (which shared jurisdiction for satellite home viewer authorizations with Judiciary), who retired in 2004. | 17 USC 101 (note) | 108-447, div J, title IX | 118 Stat 3393 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000058 |
short title actually as "W.J. (Billy) ��_��__��_��___" | ||
| Financial Stability Act of 2010 | Political Description | Financial Stability Act of 2010 | "Financial Stability Act of 2010" | 12 USC 5301 | 111-203, title I | 124 Stat 1391 | Y | short title at beginning of title I; full bill is Dodd-Frank | ||||
| James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2002 | Victim | James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2002 | "James Guelff and Chris McCurley Body Armor Act of 2002" | James Guelff was a San Francisco Police Officer who was shot to death on November 13, 1994, by a heavily-armed gunman wearing a bullet-proof vest and kevlar helmet. Chris McCurley was a Captain in the Etowah County, Alabama Drug Task Force, and was killed in 1997 by a drug dealer who was using protective body armor. | 42 USC 379ll-3 | 107-273, div. C, title I, section 11099 | 116 Stat 1819 | Y |
Findings in legilsation. Also Guelff - CR S535-536, Jan. 24, 2001, Statement of Sen. Dianne Feinstein; |
Senate version sponsored by Sen. Feinstein (CA) | ||
| Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 | Political Description | Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 | "Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998" | 18 USC 228 | 105-187 | 112 Stat 618 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Stephanie Tubbs Jones Organ Transplant Authorization Act of 2008 | Honor | Stephanie Tubbs Jones Organ Transplant Authorization Act of 2008 | "Stephanie Tubbs Jones Organ Transplant Authorization Act of 2008" | Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, after her death on August 20, 2008, in recognition of her decision to donate her organs and her long-time advocy for organ donation. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-426 | 122 Stat 4835 | Y |
110 CR H8669, Sept. 23, 2008 |
Introduced before Jones's death in August 2008, but amended to honor her. | ||
| Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act | Sponsor | Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act | NO short title | Rep. John Dingell (Sr.)(D-MI) and Sen. Edwin Johnson (D-CO) | 16 USC 777 (note) | 64 Stat 430 | Y |
Dingell - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000354; Johnson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000127; http://www.dcnr.state.al.us/research-mgmt/sport-fish.cfm |
statutized as "Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act" by S. 101(c ) of 114 Stat 1762 | |||
| Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Enhancement Act of 2000 | Location | Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Enhancement Act of 2000 | "Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Enhancement Act of 2000" | Park in Montana was previously named for Charles M. Russell | 106-541, Title VIII | 114 Stat 2699 | Y | name in short title; odd note in SAL: "Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Enhancement Act of 2000. Montana. |