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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dill-Crosser Railway Labor Act (see Railway Labor Act) | Sponsor | Dill-Crosser Railway Labor Act (see Railway Labor Act) | "Railway Labor Act" | Rep. Robert Crosser, (D-OH); Sen. Clarence Cleveland Dill, (D-WA) | 45 USC 151 | ch 347, 44 Stat 577 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000932; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000345 |
name not statutized | |||
| Buck Act | Sponsor | Buck Act | NO short title | Rep. Frank Henry Buck, (D-CA) | 4 USC 105-110 | ch. 787, 54 Stat 1059 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001017 |
name not statutized | |||
| Sikes Act | Sponsor | Sikes Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Sikes (D-FL) | 16 USC 670 (note) | 86-797 | 74 Stat 1052 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000406 |
statutized by Sec. 2902-2903 of 111 Stat 2016 | ||
| Eaton Foreign Service Act | Sponsor | Eaton Foreign Service Act | NO short title | Probably Rep. Charles Eaton (R-NJ) (later became Foreign Affairs Comm Chair) | ch. 330, 53 Stat 1067 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000023 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Celler-Kefauver Act (see Anti-Merger Act) | Sponsor | Celler-Kefauver Act (see Anti-Merger Act) | NO short title | Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY); Sen. Carey Kefauver (D-TN) | ch 1184, 64 Stat 1125 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000264; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000044 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Newlands Act (Railroad Mediation) | Sponsor | Newlands Act (Railroad Mediation) | NO short title | Sen. Francis Griffith Newlands, (D-MO) | ch 6, 38 Stat 103 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000069 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Nelson Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | Sponsor | Nelson Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | NO short title | Rep. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 24, 25 Stat 642 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000040; see also http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00578.xml |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Newton Amendment to Carmack Amendment | Sponsor | Newton Amendment to Carmack Amendment | NO short title | Rep. Walter Hughes Newton (R-MN) (1919-1929) (Newton resigned June 30, 1929); The only Carmack in the directory is Sen. Edward Ward Carmack, who died in 1908) | ch 208, 46 Stat 251 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000079 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Kellogg Act (Advance for Agricultural Purposes) | Sponsor | Kellogg Act (Advance for Agricultural Purposes) | NO short title | Sen. Frank Billings Kellogg, (R-MN) | ch. 80, 42 Stat 181 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000065 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Carmack Amendment to Hepburn Act (Insterstate Commerce) | Sponsor | Carmack Amendment to Hepburn Act (Insterstate Commerce) | NO short title | Sen. Edward Ward Carmack, (D-TN) | ch. 3591, 34 Stat 595 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000157 |
no name in statute or in 1978 amendment |