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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924" | Ch. 81, 43 Stat 33 | ||||||||
| Phipps Law | Sponsor | Phipps Law | NO short title | Sen. Lawrence Cowle Phipps, (R-PA) | 43 USC 384 | ch 150, 43 Stat 116 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000317 |
name not statutized | |||
| Linthicum-Moses Act (see Foreign Service Act) | Sponsor | Linthicum-Moses Act (see Foreign Service Act) | NO short title | Rep. John Charles Linthicum, (D-MA); Sen. George Higgins Moses, (R-N.H.) | ch 182, 43 Stat 140 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000340; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001028 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Rogers Act (Foreign Service) (see Foreign Service Act) | Sponsor | Rogers Act (Foreign Service) (see Foreign Service Act) | NO short title | Rep. John Jacob Rogers (R-MA) | ch 182, 43 Stat 140 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000400 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Dickstein Alien Officials Act (see Immigration Act of 1924) | Sponsor | Dickstein Alien Officials Act (see Immigration Act of 1924) | "The Immigration Act of 1924" | Samuel Dickstein, (D-NY) | ch 190, 43 Stat 153 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000335 |
short title at beginning - "The Immigration Act of 1924" | ||||
| Johnson-Reed Act (Immigration) (see Immigration Act of 1924) | Sponsor | Johnson-Reed Act (Immigration) (see Immigration Act of 1924) | "The Immigration Act of 1924" | Rep. Albert Johnson (R-WA); Sen. David Aiken Reed (R-PA) | ch 190, 43 Stat 153 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000114; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000114 |
short title at beginning - "The Immigration Act of 1924" | ||||
| Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | Sponsor | Reed-Johnson Act (see World War Veterans' Act, 1924) | "World War Veterans' Act, 1924" | Sen. David Aiken Reed (R-PA); Rep. Royal Cleaves Johnson (R-SD, Chairman of the Committee on WW Veterans' Legislation) | ch 320, 43 Stat 607 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000114; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000173 |
The PNT and some secondary sources link Reed-Johnson and the WW Veterans' Act, but other sources link Reed-Johnson with the Immigration Act of 1924, which was 43 Stat. 153. | ||||
| Clarke-McNary Act (Reforestration) | Sponsor | Clarke-McNary Act (Reforestration) | NO short title | Rep. John Davenport Clarke, (R-NY); Sen. Charles Linza McNary, (R-OR) | ch. 348, 43 Stat 653 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000465; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000583 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924" | Ch. 4, 43 Stat 672 | ||||||||
| Fact Finders' Act | Sponsor | Fact Finders' Act | "Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1924" | 43 USC 371 | ch 4, section 4, 43 Stat 701 | N | "Fact Finders' Act" not listed anywhere, but indicated in USC short title note; name not statutized |