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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Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | Honor | Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | "Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act" | Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN) and his wife, Sheila. | 107-316 | 116 Stat 2764 | Y |
Legislation (Section 2, findings) |
short title; Wellstones also named in long title; providing money for an existing community center in St Paul, to be renamed for the Wellstones | |||
Anton's Law | Victim | Anton's Law | "Anton's Law" | Named for Anton Skeen, 4-year-old killed in car accident when front safety belt did not restrain him. | 49 USC 30127 | 107-318 | 116 Stat 2772 | Y |
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20135130,00.html |
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POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002 | Description | POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002 | "POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002" | 36 USC 101 | 107-323 | 116 Stat 2787 | N | short title at beginning of statute; POW/MIA flag display | ||||
Fallon Rail Freight Loading Facility Transfer Act | Location | Fallon Rail Freight Loading Facility Transfer Act | "Fallon Rail Freight Loading Facility Transfer Act" | Fallon, NV | 107-339 | 116 Stat 2887 | N | short title; Fallon is a city in NV | ||||
Gunn McKay Nature Preserve Act | Honor | Gunn McKay Nature Preserve Act | "Gunn McKay Nature Preserve Act" | Rep. Gunn McKay (UT) who died in 2000. | 107-364 | 116 Stat 3026 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000490 |
designating land in Utah as a preserve named for Rep. McKay | |||
Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows and Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program Act of 2008 | Honor | Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows and Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program Act of 2008 | "Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2002" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) and Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland (TX) served together in the House and were friends who worked across the aisle on hunger and poverty issues. | 2 USC 1161 | 107-171 (Section 4404) | 116 Stat 335 | Y |
116 Stat 335, PL 101-171, Section 4404 |
Original statute passed in 2002 as "Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2002", which named fellowship for Emerson and Leland and included info about them in the statute's findings. The 2008 Act (122 Stat 1132) amended the program and also statutized the names in the short title. | ||
No FEAR Act | Acrostic | No FEAR Act | "Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act 2002" | 5 USC 2301 | 107-174 | 116 stat 566 | Y | short title at beginning of statute -- acronym not included | ||||
Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002 | Honor | Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002 | "Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002" | Rep. Gerald B. H. Solomon (NY) who died in 2001. | 22 USC 1928 (note) | 107-187 | 116 Stat 590 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000675 |
short title naming bill for Solomon added in Committee | ||
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sponsor | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | "Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002" | Sen. Paul Sarbanes, (D-MD); Rep. Michael Oxley (R-OH) | 15 USC 7201 (note) | 107-204 | 116 Stat 745 | Y |
Nance Lucas, An Interview with United States Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXD/is_1_11/ai_n25101748/; Sarbanes-Oxley Essential Information, sox-online.com, http://www.sox-online.com/basics.html; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000064; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000163 |
short title | ||
Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 | Description | Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 | "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002" | Adds "born-alive infant" to defintion of "person" in 1 USC 1 | 1 USC 1 note | 107-207 | 116 Stat 926 | N |
Text of legislation |
short title at beginning of statute |