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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008 | Victim | Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008 | "Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008" | Named for daughter of Rep. Deborah Pryce (sponsor) who died from neuroblastoma at age 9 in 1999. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-285 | 122 Stat 2628 | Y |
http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/ncicancerbulletin/archive/2008/072208/page6 |
NOTE - name changed in committee, guessing it was someone other than price who made the change | ||
| Federal Tea Tasters Repeal Act of 1996 | Description | Federal Tea Tasters Repeal Act of 1996 | "Federal Tea Tasters Repeal Act of 1996" | The law this bill repealed required that all tea imported had to be tested for quality, not just safety. | 21 USC 41 | 104-128 | 110 Stat 1198 | Y | repealing the Tea Importation Act | |||
| Kenneth M. Ludden Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2002 | Honor | Kenneth M. Ludden Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2002 | "Kenneth M. Ludden Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2002" | Ken Ludden, Legislative Coordinator in the Treasury's Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and former staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ludden died on Sept. 10, 2001. | 107-115 | 115 Stat 2118 | Y |
CR S10897-98, Oct. 23, 2001. |
Named for Ludden by floor amendment in the Senate | |||
| Pam White Wilderness Act of 2006 | Honor | Pam White Wilderness Act of 2006 | "Pam White Wilderness Act of 2006" | Pamela White was an advocate for wilderness preservation in Nevada, killed in a car crash in 2005. | 109-432, div C, title III, subtitle B (section 321) | 120 Stat 3030 | Y |
http://www.nevadawilderness.org/items/newsletter_06Autumn.pdf; CR S10971, Oct. 4, 2005. |
short title; deals with a number of wilderness areas but none of them are named for Pam White -- think that may just be an honorific attached to the bill | |||
| Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act | Honor/Victim | Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act | "Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act" | Samuel Hicks was a Special Agent with the FBI, killed on duty in 2008. | 5 USC 101 (note) | 111-178 | 124 Stat 1262 | Y | short title; PA FBI agent killed in 2008 | |||
| Lanham Act (aka the Trademark Act of 1946) | Sponsor | Lanham Act (aka the Trademark Act of 1946) | NO short title | Rep. Fritz Garland Lanham (D-TX) | 15 USC 1051 (note) | ch. 540, 60 Stat 427 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000076 |
statutized by 98 Stat 3335 | |||
| Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Act | Honor | Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Act | "Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship Act" | President Harry S. Truman | 20 USC 2001 (note) | 93-642 | 88 Stat 2276 | Y | title and short title; establishing Truman scholarships | |||
| Doug Barnard, Jr. -- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olypmic Games Commemorative Coin Act | Honor/Sponsor | Doug Barnard, Jr. -- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olypmic Games Commemorative Coin Act | "Doug Barnard, Jr. -- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olypmic Games Commemorative Coin Act" | Rep. Doug Barnard, Jr. (GA), retired 1992. | 31 USC 5112 (note) | 102-390 | 106 Stat 1620 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000153 |
Barnard was the sponsor, but the version he introduced did not include his name, which was added some time during the House consideration. | ||
| Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000 | Victim | Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000 | "Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 2000" | 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) | 106-345 | 114 Stat 1319 | 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 and long title | ||
| Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act | Institution | Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act | "Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act" | Name "Dandini Research Park" pre-existed statute. | 109-69 | 119 Stat 2007 | Y |
S.Rpt.109-38 |
short title |