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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newlands Act (Railroad Mediation) | Sponsor | Newlands Act (Railroad Mediation) | NO short title | Sen. Francis Griffith Newlands, (D-MO) | ch 6, 38 Stat 103 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000069 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Kellogg Act (Advance for Agricultural Purposes) | Sponsor | Kellogg Act (Advance for Agricultural Purposes) | NO short title | Sen. Frank Billings Kellogg, (R-MN) | ch. 80, 42 Stat 181 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000065 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Newton Amendment to Carmack Amendment | Sponsor | Newton Amendment to Carmack Amendment | NO short title | Rep. Walter Hughes Newton (R-MN) (1919-1929) (Newton resigned June 30, 1929); The only Carmack in the directory is Sen. Edward Ward Carmack, who died in 1908) | ch 208, 46 Stat 251 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000079 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Carmack Amendment to Hepburn Act (Insterstate Commerce) | Sponsor | Carmack Amendment to Hepburn Act (Insterstate Commerce) | NO short title | Sen. Edward Ward Carmack, (D-TN) | ch. 3591, 34 Stat 595 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000157 |
no name in statute or in 1978 amendment | ||||
| Dent Act | Sponsor | Dent Act | NO short title | Rep. Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr., (D-AL) | ch. 94, 40 Stat 1272 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000256 |
nothing in statute; granting emergency power to the Secretary of War -- maybe Dent is secretary of war? | ||||
| Wagner-O'Day Act (see Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act) | Sponsor | Wagner-O'Day Act (see Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act) | NO short title | Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-NY); Rep. Caroline O'Day (D-NY) | ch 697, 52 Stat 1196 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000033 |
nothing in statute (blind-made products) | ||||
| Gold Star Mothers Act | Sponsor | Gold Star Mothers Act | NO short title | ch 659, 50 Stat 660 | X | nothing in statute | ||||||
| Thurman Act (Pacific Railroads) | Sponsor | Thurman Act (Pacific Railroads) | NO short title | Sen. Allen Thurman (D-OH) | ch 96, 20 Stat 56 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000251 |
nothing in statute; railroads | ||||
| McGuire Bill | Sponsor | McGuire Bill | NO short title | Rep. John Andrew McGuire (D-CT) | ch 745, 66 Stat 631 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000465 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Tarsney Act (Erection of Public Buildings) | Sponsor | Tarsney Act (Erection of Public Buildings) | NO short title | Rep. John Tarsney (D-MO) | ch 146, 27 Stat 468 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000043 |
nothing in statute |