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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Deficiency Appropriations Act, fiscal year 1936 | Description | First Deficiency Appropriations Act, fiscal year 1936 | "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936" | Ch. 689, 49 Stat 1597 | ||||||||
| Public Utility Act of 1935 | Description | Public Utility Act of 1935 | "Public Utility Act (Federal Power Act)" | Ch. 687, 49 Stat 803 | ||||||||
| Capper-Ketcham Act | Sponsor | Capper-Ketcham Act | NO short title | Sen. Arthur Capper (R-KS) and Rep. John Ketcham (R-MI) | 7 USC 343 | ch. 687, 45 Stat 711 | Y |
Capper - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000133; Ketcham - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000151 |
statutized by reference in 67 Stat 84 (1953) | |||
| Life Insurance Act | Description | Life Insurance Act | "Life Insurance Act" | Ch. 672, 48 Stat 1125 | ||||||||
| Boggs Act | Sponsor | Boggs Act | NO short title | Rep. Thomas Hale Boggs (D-LA) | 21 USC 174 | ch. 666, 65 Stat 767 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000594 |
name not statutized, repealed | |||
| Communications Act of 1934 | Description | Communications Act of 1934 | "Communications Act of 1934" | 47 USC 609 | Ch. 652, 48 Stat 1064 | |||||||
| 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 | |||
| Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935 | Description | Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935 | "Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935" | Ch. 648, title II, 48 Stat 1021 | ||||||||
| Potato Act of 1935 | Description | Potato Act of 1935 | "Potato Act of 1935" | 7 USC 801 | Ch. 641, 49 Stat 750 | |||||||
| Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 | Description | Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 | "Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933" | 12 USC 1461 | Ch. 64, 48 Stat 128 |