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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006 | Victim | Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006 | "Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006" | Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 and became an advocate for people with the disease. He died a few months before the original act passed in 1990. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 109-415 | 120 Stat 2767 | Y |
Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13 and became an advocate for people with the disease. He died a few months before the original act passed in 1990. |
short title | ||
| SAFRA Act | Abbreviation | SAFRA Act | "SAFRA Act" | Student Aid and Financial Responsibility Act of 2009, originally introduced as H.R. 3221 (111th Cong.). | 20 USC 1001 | 111-152, title II, subtitle A, S2001 | 124 Stat 1071 | Y | short title at beginning of title II, no indication of what SAFRA stands for | |||
| Capper-Volstead Act (See Co-operative Marketing Assocations Act) | Sponsor | Capper-Volstead Act (See Co-operative Marketing Assocations Act) | NO short title | Sen. Arthur Capper (R-KS) and Rep. Andrew Volstead (R-MN) | 7 USC 291, 292 | ch 57, 42 Stat 388 | Y |
Capper - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000133; Volstead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000114; http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/info/capper.html |
"Capper-Volstead" statutized by reference in 94 Stat 374 (1980 amendment to 7 USC 292) | |||
| Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act | Honor | Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act | "National School Lunch Act" | Sen. Richard B. Russell (GA) | 42 USC 1751 (note) | ch 281, 60 Stat 230 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000536 |
enacting clause "may be cited as the 'National School Lunch Act'"; renamed for "Richard B. Russell" in 1999 by 113 Stat 1169 | |||
| Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974 | Sponsor | Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974 | "Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974" | Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-WV) and Sen. Morris Sheppard (D-TX) | 20 USC 107 (note) | 93-516, title II | 88 Stat 1622 | Y |
Randolph - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000046; Sheppard - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
short title and title II; named as "Randolph-Sheppard Act" in findings | ||
| Pope John Paul II Congressional Gold Medal Act | Award | Pope John Paul II Congressional Gold Medal Act | "Pope John Paul II Congressional Gold Medal Act" | 31 USC 5111 (note) | 106-250 | 114 Stat 622 | Y | short title and long title; granting gold medal to PJPII | ||||
| Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 | Honor/Sponsor | Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 | "Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005" | Rep. Clinton Anderson (NM) and Rep. Charles Melvin Price (IL), both of whom went on to chair the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. | 42 USC 2210 (note) | 109-408, title VI, subtitle A (section 601) | 119 Stat 779 | Y |
Anderson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000186; Price - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000522 |
short title and subtitle | ||
| PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 | Acrostic | PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 | "Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology To Eradicate Cyber Threats to Our Children Act of 2008" or "PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008" | 42 USC 17601 note | 110-401 | 122 Stat 4229 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Clayton Act (Antitrust) | Sponsor | Clayton Act (Antitrust) | NO short title | Rep. Henry Clayton (D-AL), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and sponsor. | 15 USC 12(b) | ch. 323, 38 Stat 730 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000495 |
name statutized by 90 Stat 1383, "Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976" | |||
| Hickenlooper Amendment | Sponsor | Hickenlooper Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA) who introduced the amendment. Though Rep. Hays apparently claimed co-parentage of the amendment (see W. Averell Harriman, The Protection of Foreign Investment and the Hickenlooper Amendment, 112 U.Penn.L.Rev. 1116, http://www.jstor.org/pss/3310530) | 22 USC 2370 (e )(2) | 88-633, part III, Section 301(d)(4) | 78 Stat 1013 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000559 |
Unclear why the Hickenlooper Amendment listed in the PNT is from 1964. It was first attached to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1962 (76 Stat 255). |