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 |
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Federal Register Act | Description | Federal Register Act | "Federal Register Act" | Ch. 417, 49 Stat 500 | ||||||||
Buy Indian Act | Description | Buy Indian Act | NO short title | 25 USC 47 | ch 431, section 23, 36 Stat 861 | Y | statutized by PL 103-435, 108 Stat 4566 (1994) with parenthetical "commonly referred to as the 'Buy Indian Act'" | |||||
No entry | Description | No entry | "Architect's Registration Act" | Ch. 861, 45 Stat 950 | ||||||||
Railroad Retirement Act | Description | Railroad Retirement Act | "Railroad Retirement Act" | Ch. 868, 48 Stat 1283 | ||||||||
New Communities Act of 1968 | Description | New Communities Act of 1968 | "New Communities Act of 1968" | 42 USC 3901 | 90-448, title IV | 82 Stat 513 | N | short title at beginning of title IV - guarantees for financing new community land development | ||||
Liquor Tax Administration Act | Description | Liquor Tax Administration Act | "Liquor Tax Administration Act" | Ch. 830, 49 Stat 1939 | ||||||||
Stone Act | Description | Stone Act | NO short title | Stone almost certainly refers to the physical object. The act is referred to as the Building Stone Act at 43 CFR 3809.5. | 30 USC 161 | ch 375, 27 Stat 348 | N | name not statutized; about mining (stone as an object, probably not a name) | ||||
Anti-Smuggling Act | Description | Anti-Smuggling Act | "Anti-Smuggling Act" | 19 USC 1701 | Ch. 438, 49 Stat 517 | |||||||
Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928 | Description | Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1928 | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928" | Ch. 853, 45 Stat 884 | ||||||||
Federal Water Power Act | Description | Federal Water Power Act | "The Federal Water Power Act" | ch. 285, 41 Stat 1063 |