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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||
| Hump Law | Description | Hump Law | NO short title | The "hump" was the colloquial term used for the large group of officers commissioned during WWII. The law provides for a path to promotion by expanding the ranks of higher officers. | 86-155 | 73 Stat 333 | N |
105 Cong. Rec. 3227 (Mar. 4, 1959), Statement of Rep. Thornburry (PA). |
don't see anything helplful in statute, but law deals with Navy so maybe "Hump" is a naval term? | |||
| Lea-Wagner Act (see Investment Advisers Act of 1940; Investment Company Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Lea-Wagner Act (see Investment Advisers Act of 1940; Investment Company Act of 1940) | short title at end of title I - "Investment Company Act of 1940"; short title at end of title II - "Investment Advisers Act of 1940" | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA); Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-NY) | 15 USC 80a-51 | ch 686, title I, 54 Stat 789 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021 |
"Lea-Wagner" not statutized | |||
| Copeland Firearms Act | Sponsor | Copeland Firearms Act | "Federal Firearms Act" | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland, (D-N.Y.) | 15 USC 901 et seq | ch 850, 52 Stat 1250 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
"Copeland" never statutized, act repealed; short title (at end) | |||
| TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007 | Description | TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007 | "TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007" | 42 USC 1305 | 110-90 | 121 Stat 984 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility Transfer Act | Location | Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility Transfer Act | "Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility Transfer Act" | Newlands Project, NV | 109-265 | 120 Stat 668 | N | short title; Newlands Project previously named | ||||
| June Act (Pensions) | Undefined | June Act (Pensions) | NO short title | Likely named for the month in which it was passed -- June. | ch 634, 26 stat 182 | N | nothing in statute -- passed in June? | |||||
| Kellogg Act (Cable Companies) | Sponsor | Kellogg Act (Cable Companies) | NO short title | Sen. Frank Billings Kellog. (R-MN) | 47 USC 34 | ch. 12, 42 Stat 8 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000065 |
name not statutized | |||
| Griffin-Landrum Act (see Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | Sponsor | Griffin-Landrum Act (see Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) | "Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959" | Sen. Robert Paul Griffin, (R-MI); Rep. Philip Mitchell Landrum, (D-GA) | 29 USC 401 | 86-257 | 73 Stat 519 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000054 |
short title at beginning; "Griffin-Landrum" not statutized | ||
| Fiscal Year 1990 Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance | Political Description | Fiscal Year 1990 Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance | "the fiscal year 1990 Dire Emergency Supplemental to Meet the Needs of Natural Disasters of National Significance" | 101-130, 101-100 ? | 103 Stat 775 | N | short title being added as Section 108 (e ) |