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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (see Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) | Sponsor | Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (see Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) | "Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985" | Sen. William Philip Gramm, (R-TX); Sen. Warren Bruce Rudman, (R-NH); Sen. Ernest Frederick Hollings, (D-SC) | 2 USC 900 | 99-177, title II | 99 Stat 1038 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000365; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000497; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000725 |
"Gramm-Rudman-Hollings" not statutized | ||
| Food for Progress Act of 1985 | Political Description | Food for Progress Act of 1985 | "Food for Progress Act of 1985" | 7 USC 1736o(a) | 99-198, title XI, S 1110 | 99 Stat 1472 | Y | short title at beginning of S 1110 | ||||
| Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936 | Description | Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936 | "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1936" | C. 3, 49 Stat 6 | ||||||||
| Wadsworth-Kahn Act | Sponsor | Wadsworth-Kahn Act | NO short title | Sen. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., (R-N.Y.); Rep. Julius Kahn, (R-CA) | ch 100, 41 Stat 530 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000012; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000003 |
nothing in statute; transfering surplus military supplies | ||||
| Wiley Act (Homestead Lands, Alabama) | Sponsor | Wiley Act (Homestead Lands, Alabama) | NO short title | Rep. Ariosto Appling Wiley (AL) | ch 1013, 32 Stat 1222 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000466 |
nothing in statute; homestead settlers in AL; House Congressional Record of debate from 1907 refers to legislation as the "Wiley Act" | ||||
| McCarran Act (see Internal Security Act of 1950) | Sponsor | McCarran Act (see Internal Security Act of 1950) | "Internal Security Act of 1950" | Patrick Anthony McCarran, (D-N.V) | 50 USC 781 | ch 1024, 64 Stat 987 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000308 |
"McCarran" not statutized; short title at beginning - "Internal Security Act of 1950" | |||
| Automobile Dealers' Day in Court Act | Political Description | Automobile Dealers' Day in Court Act | NO short title | 15 USC 1221 | ch 1038, 70 Stat 1125 | N | not statutized, but the official title is the longest and most political I've ever seen | |||||
| Cullom Act (Interstate Commerce) (see Interstate Commerce Act) | Sponsor | Cullom Act (Interstate Commerce) (see Interstate Commerce Act) | NO short title | Sen. Shelby Cullom (R-IL) | ch 104, 24 Stat 379 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000973 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Rankin Veterans Act | Sponsor | Rankin Veterans Act | NO short title | Rep. John Rankin (D-MS) | ch 109, 53 Stat 652 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000056 |
nothing in statute |