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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson Amendment (see Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933) | Sponsor | Johnson Amendment (see Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933) | "Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933" | Really unclear. The amendments offered in the House were all Committee amendments put forward by Rep. Rayburn, and the Senate amendments were by Shipstead. No one named Johnson participated in the debate in either chamber and none was appointed a conferee. It's possible that this is a mistake in the PNT, because there is a more famous "Johnson Amendment" in tax law that was offered by Sen. Lyndon Johnson on the floor, but it was not an amendment dealing with this part of the tax code - http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=154788,00.html | 15 USC 77mm | ch 38, title II, 48 Stat 92 | N | short title at end of title II - "Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935" - each of these titles has an appropriations name, but why no personal name for these? | ||||
| Gould Amendment (Food and Drugs) | Sponsor | Gould Amendment (Food and Drugs) | NO short title | Rep. Samuel Gould (D-ME) | ch. 117, 37 Stat 732 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000343 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Borah Resolution (Armament Conference) (see Disarmament Conference Resolution) | Sponsor | Borah Resolution (Armament Conference) (see Disarmament Conference Resolution) | NO short title | Sen. William Edgar Borah, (R-ID) | ch 44 ��_��__9, 42 stat 141 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000634 |
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 | ||||
| Dent Act | Sponsor | Dent Act | NO short title | Rep. Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr., (D-AL) | ch. 94, 40 Stat 1272 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000256 |
nothing in statute; granting emergency power to the Secretary of War -- maybe Dent is secretary of war? | ||||
| Faddis Machine Tool Act | Sponsor | Faddis Machine Tool Act | NO short title | Rep. Charles Isiah Faddis (D-PA) | 50 USC App. 711 et seq | ch. 836, 54 Stat 1090 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000001 |
name not statutized | |||
| Fulbright-Hays Act (see Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961) | Sponsor | Fulbright-Hays Act (see Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961) | "Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961" | Sen. J. William Fulbright, (D-AK) | 22 USC 2451 | 87-256 | 75 Stat 527 | Y |
Richard D. Scarfo, The History of Title VI and Fulbright-Hayes, www.international.ucla.edu/pacrim/title6/Over2-Scarfo.pdf; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000401. |
"Fulbright-Hays" statutized by PL 102-138, 105 Stat 647 with "(commonly referred to as the 'Fulbright-Hays Act')", codified at 22 USC 1475h | ||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 |