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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gasque Spanish War Pensions Act | Sponsor | Gasque Spanish War Pensions Act | NO short title | Rep. Allard Gasque (D-SC) | ch. 268, 52 Stat 440 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000092 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act | Sponsor | Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act | NO short title | Sen. Harry B. Hawes (D-MO) (resigned Senate effective Feb. 3, 1933); Rep. Butler Black Hare (D-SC) (left Mar. 3, 1933); Sen. Bronson Murray Cutting (R-NM) (1929-1935) | ch. 11, 47 Stat 761 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000362; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000200; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001028 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| McKinley Act (Tariff) | Sponsor | McKinley Act (Tariff) | NO short title | Rep. William McKinley (R - OH) | ch 1244, 26 Stat 567 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000522 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Ramspeck-Mead Act | Sponsor | Ramspeck-Mead Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D-GA); Sen. James Mead (D-NY) | ch 346, 55 Stat 613 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000032; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000615 |
nothing in statute; amending Classification Act of 1923 | ||||
| Heyburn Act (Pure Food and Drugs) (see Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906) | Sponsor | Heyburn Act (Pure Food and Drugs) (see Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906) | NO short title | Sen. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, (R-ID) | ch 3915, 34 Stat 768 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000554 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 (see Philippine Independence Act) | Sponsor | Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 (see Philippine Independence Act) | NO short title | Rep. John McDuffie (D-AL); Sen. Millard E. Tydings (D-MD) | ch 84, 48 Stat 456 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000427; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000446 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| La Follete-Bulwinkle Act (Venereal Diseases) | Sponsor | La Follete-Bulwinkle Act (Venereal Diseases) | NO short title | Sen. Robert La Follette, Jr. (Progressive-WI); Rep. Alfred Bulwinkle (D-NC) | ch. 267, 52 Stat 439 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000005; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001056 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Wilmot Proviso (Slavery in Territories) | Sponsor | Wilmot Proviso (Slavery in Territories) | NO short title | Sen. David Wilmot (R-PA) | ch 111, 12 Stat 432 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000566 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| McCreary Act (Chinese Exclusion) | Sponsor | McCreary Act (Chinese Exclusion) | NO short title | Rep. Jame McCreary (D-KY) | ch. 14, 28 Stat 7 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000382 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Johnson Act (Maritime Workers' Compensation) | Sponsor | Johnson Act (Maritime Workers' Compensation) | NO short title | Sen. Hiram Johnson (R-CA) | ch. 97, 40 Stat 395 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000140 |
nothing in statute |