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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bland Ship Requisitioning Act (see Ship Seizure Bill) | Sponsor | Bland Ship Requisitioning Act (see Ship Seizure Bill) | NO short title | Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland, (D-VA) | 50 USC App 1271 | ch 174, 55 Stat 242 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000545 |
name not statutized | |||
| Hickenlooper Amendment | Sponsor | Hickenlooper Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA) who introduced the amendment. Though Rep. Hays apparently claimed co-parentage of the amendment (see W. Averell Harriman, The Protection of Foreign Investment and the Hickenlooper Amendment, 112 U.Penn.L.Rev. 1116, http://www.jstor.org/pss/3310530) | 22 USC 2370 (e )(2) | 88-633, part III, Section 301(d)(4) | 78 Stat 1013 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000559 |
Unclear why the Hickenlooper Amendment listed in the PNT is from 1964. It was first attached to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1962 (76 Stat 255). | ||
| Luce Patent Act | Sponsor | Luce Patent Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Luce (R-MA) | ch. 619, 53 Stat 1293 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000498 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| McCarran Amendment (Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1953) | Sponsor | McCarran Amendment (Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1953) | NO short title | Sen. Patrick Anthony McCarran, (D-NV) | 43 USC 666 | ch. 651, title II, section 208(a)-(c ), 66 Stat 560 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000308; |
name not statutized | |||
| Dale Bumpers Wilderness Resources Protection Act (also known as the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984) | Sponsor | Dale Bumpers Wilderness Resources Protection Act (also known as the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984) | Enacting Clause - "Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984" | Sen. Dale Bumpers, (D-AK). | 16 USC 1132 (note) | 98-508 | 98 Stat 2349 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001057 |
"Dale Bumpers" not statutized; named as "Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984" in the enacting clause | ||
| Clayton Act (Antitrust) | Sponsor | Clayton Act (Antitrust) | NO short title | Rep. Henry Clayton (D-AL), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and sponsor. | 15 USC 12(b) | ch. 323, 38 Stat 730 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000495 |
name statutized by 90 Stat 1383, "Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976" | |||
| McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | Sponsor | McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | "McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001" | Rep. Stewart McKinney, (R-CT); Rep. Bruce Vento, (D-Farmer-Labour-MN) | 42 USC 11301 (note) | 107-110, title X, part C (section 1031) | 115 Stat 1989 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000087 |
short title | ||
| Millspaugh Act (DC Banks) | Sponsor | Millspaugh Act (DC Banks) | NO short title | Rep. Frank Crenshaw, (R-MO) | ch 147, 42 Stat 500 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000781 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974 | Sponsor | Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974 | "Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974" | Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-WV) and Sen. Morris Sheppard (D-TX) | 20 USC 107 (note) | 93-516, title II | 88 Stat 1622 | Y |
Randolph - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000046; Sheppard - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
short title and title II; named as "Randolph-Sheppard Act" in findings | ||
| Nelson Amendment (Agricultural Colleges) | Sponsor | Nelson Amendment (Agricultural Colleges) | NO short title | Sen. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 2907 [part], 34 Stat 1256, 1281 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000040 |
nothing in statute |