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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Act (Puerto Rico) (see Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) | Sponsor | Jones Act (Puerto Rico) (see Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act) | NO short title | Rep. William Atkinson Jones, (D-VA) | 48 USC 731 | ch 145, 39 Stat 951 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000259 |
Jones not statutized, included in note in code | |||
| Lowden Act (Purchase of Embassy Buildings, etc.) | Sponsor | Lowden Act (Purchase of Embassy Buildings, etc.) | NO short title | Rep. Frank Orren Lowden, (R-IL) | 22 USC 133 | ch. 105, 36 Stat 917 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000472 |
Repealed by ch. 250, Section 7, 44 Stat 405; not statutized | |||
| Smith-Sears Act | Sponsor | Smith-Sears Act | NO short title | Rep. William Joseph Sears (D-FL); Sen. Hoke Smith (D-GA) | ch 107, 40 Stat 617 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000211; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000551 |
nothing in statute; vocational ed for vets | ||||
| The Lodge Act (Alien Enlistee Program) | Sponsor | The Lodge Act (Alien Enlistee Program) | Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000393; http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.111-tv-284 |
Was not listed in PNT. Legislative gave the opportunity for citizenship to refugees from Communist countries if they served in the US armed forces for 5 years. Participants became known as "Lodge Act Soldiers." Sponsored by Sen Henry Cabot Lodges. I9 | ||||||
| Taylor Grazing Act | Sponsor | Taylor Grazing Act | NO short title | Rep. Edward T. Taylor, (D-CO) | 43 USC 315 (note) | ch 865, 48 Stat 1269 | Y |
Frederick W. Obermiller, Did Congress Intend To Recognize Grazing Rights?: An Alternative Perspective on the Taylor Grazing Act, 18 Rangelands 186, 186 (1996), http://www.jstor.org/pss/4001325; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000072 |
name statutized by reference in 68 Stat 151 (1954) | |||
| Lee-Caraway-Gearhart Act (Cotton and Tobacco) (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Lee-Caraway-Gearhart Act (Cotton and Tobacco) (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938" | Sen. Joshua Bryan Lee, (D-OK); Sen. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, (D-AK); Rep. Bertrand Wesley Gearhart, (R-CA) | 7 USC 1281 | ch 30, 52 Stat 31 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000198; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000138; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000111 |
"Lee-Caraway-Gearhart" not statutized; short title at beginning | |||
| Case-Zablocki Act | Sponsor | Case-Zablocki Act | NO short title | Sen. Clifford Case (R-NJ) and Rep. Clement Zablock (D-WI) | 1 USC 112b | 92-403 Section 1 | 86 Stat 619 | Y |
Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulum, A culture of deference, http://books.google.com/books?id=R0EtC4ox0ZMC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&a...... http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000220; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Z000001 |
statutized in title of Section 7121, 118 Stat 3638 | ||
| Bowman Act (Claims) | Sponsor | Bowman Act (Claims) | NO short title | Rep. Selwyn Bowman (R-MA) | ch 116, 22 Stat 485 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000705 |
no name in statute | ||||
| Glass-Steagall Act, 1932 | Sponsor | Glass-Steagall Act, 1932 | NO short title | Sen. Carter Glass (D-VA) and Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D-AL) | 12 USC 226 (note)/12 USC 347a, 347b, 412 | ch. 58, 47 Stat 56 | Y |
Glass - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000232; Steagall - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000820 |
Statutized by 94 Stat 188, but note in code (at at 12 USC 93a) indicates that the Glass-Steagall Act referred to in text is "probably" the 1933 act not the 1932 act | |||
| Walsh-Healey Act | Sponsor | Walsh-Healey Act | NO short title | Sen. David Walsh, (D-MA); Rep. Arthur Healey (D-MA) | 41 USC 101 (note) | ch 881, 49 Stat 2036 | Y |
Walsh - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000097; Healey - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000423 |
amended to include "Walsh-Healey Act" as short title in 1994 by 108 Stat 3409 |