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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copeland Pure Food and Drugs Act (see Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) | Sponsor | Copeland Pure Food and Drugs Act (see Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) | "Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland, 1923-38, (D-NY), | 21 USC 301 | ch 675, 52 Stat 1040 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
short title - Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; Copeland never statutized | |||
| Hall-Mark Act | Description | Hall-Mark Act | NO short title | Hallmark is what is stamped on Gold and Silver to certify purity | 15 USC 291 | ch. 720, 33 Stat 732 | N |
(Dictionary) |
Hallmark not statutized - statute prohibits stamping of gold and silver with "U.S. assay" (still on books, never amended); No one in Congress named Hall at the time and no one ever named Mark; Seems to be "Hallmark" | |||
| Klamath Welfare Act | Tribe | Klamath Welfare Act | "Klamath Welfare Act" | 25 USC 544 (note) | ch. 160, 62 Stat 92 | N | Klamath Indian Tribe | |||||
| ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000 | Abbreviation | ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000 | "ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000" | 42 usc 101 note | 106-545 | 114 Stat 2721 | N | short title at beginning of statute; ICCVAM is not spelled out in title -- S 3 spells it out as Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods | ||||
| Serve America Act | Political Description | Serve America Act | "Serve America Act" | 42 USC 12501 | 111-13 | 123 Stat 1460 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Fess-Kenyon Act (see the Vocational Rehabilitation Act) | Sponsor | Fess-Kenyon Act (see the Vocational Rehabilitation Act) | "Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1943" | Sen. Simeon Davison Fess, (R-OH); Sen. William Squire Kenyon, (R-IA) | 29 USC 31 et seq | ch 190 ��_��__1, 57 Stat 374 |
06/02/1920 07/06/1943 |
N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000096; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000129 |
short title at end; "Fess-Kenyon" not statutized | ||
| Jones Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Jones Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938" | Rep. John Marvin Jones (D-TX) | 7 USC 1281 | ch 30, 52 Stat 31 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236 |
"Jones" not statutized; short title at beginning | |||
| Russell Amendment | Sponsor | Russell Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-GA) | ch 286, title II, section 213, 58 Stat 387 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000536 |
nothing in statute with name; section 214 - short title for act is "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1945"; Russell amendment was a rider requiring congressional approval for all funds for agencies established by executive order and operational for more than one year, meant to stymie President Roosevelt's funding and operation of the FEPC. See William G. Howell, "Power without persuasion: the politics of direct presidential action" (2003) at 132-133. | ||||
| Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) | Description | Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) | NO short title | 18 USC 1961 ntoes | 91-452, title IX, 901(a) | 84 Stat 941 | N | title of Title IX but no short title | ||||
| ART Act | Acrostic | ART Act | "Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 or the ART Act" | 17 USC 101 | 109-9, title I | 119 Stat 218 | N | short title at beginning of Title I of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 |