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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002 | Description | POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002 | "POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002" | 36 USC 101 | 107-323 | 116 Stat 2787 | N | short title at beginning of statute; POW/MIA flag display | ||||
| Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act | Victim | Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act | NO short title; section titleg is "Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics" | Jeanne Cleary was a 19-year-old freshman at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her residence hall in 1986. | 20 USC 1092(f)(18) | 89-329, title IV, section 485(f)/101-542, title II, section 204(a) | 104 Stat 2385 | N | no short title, section title is "Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics" (no mention of name); "jeanne cleary" not statutized | |||
| GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 | Abbreviation | GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 | "GPRA Modernization Act of 2010" | 31 USC 1101 | 111-352 | 124 Stat 3866 | N | short title at beginning of statute; Government Performance and Results Act. | ||||
| ED 1.0 Act | Political Description | ED 1.0 Act | "ED 1.0 Act" | 47 USC 902 (note) | 110-161, div. B, title V, Section 536 | 121 Stat 1932 | N | titled in statute (functionally a short title); providing grants for wireless communication on certain college campuses -- really not clear what "ED 1.0" maens | ||||
| Walter-Logan Act (see Administrative Procedure Act) | Sponsor | Walter-Logan Act (see Administrative Procedure Act) | "Administrative Procedure Act" | Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-PA); Sen. Marvel M. Logan (D-KY) | 5 USC note prec 551 | ch 324, 60 Stat 237 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000108; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000404 |
short title at beginning; Seems as though "Walter-Logan Act" was really a failed 1941 version that was vetoed by the President. The Emerging Concept of Administrative Procedure, Paul R. Verkuil, Columbia Law Review , Vol. 78, No. 2 (Mar., 1978), pp. 258-329, 261 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/1121898) | |||
| McGregor Act (see Lanham Public War Housing Act) | Sponsor | McGregor Act (see Lanham Public War Housing Act) | NO short title | Rep. Harry J. McGregor, (R-OH) | 42 USC 1501 | ch 862, 54 Stat 1125 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000460 |
name not statutized | |||
| Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act | Sponsor | Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act | "Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act" | Rep. Walter (Wally) Herger (R-CA); Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) | 16 USC 2104 (note) | 105-277, div. A, Section 101(e ) [title IV, section 401] | 112 Stat 2681-231, 2681-305 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000528; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000062 |
title of Title IV, short title; Quincy Library Group was A pre-existing entity, think the question is who/what is Herger-Feinstein | ||
| Baldwin Amendment | Sponsor | Baldwin Amendment | NO short title | Rep. John Finley Baldwin, Jr., (R-CA) | Amending 1USC 23 | 89-139 section 4(a) | 79 Stat 578 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000092 |
"Baldwin" not statutized; highway safety programs | ||
| TEFRA | Abbreviation | TEFRA | "Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982" | 26 USC 1 note | 97-248 | 96 Stat 324 | N | short title at beginning of statute; TEFRA is listed in PNT, but not in statute | ||||
| President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1994 | Description | President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1994 | "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1994" | 44 USC 2107 (note) | 103-345 | 108 Stat 3128 | N | short title and named in long title |