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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dollinger Act (Food and Drugs) | Sponsor | Dollinger Act (Food and Drugs) | NO short title | Rep. Isidore Dollinger (D-NY) | 85-250 | 71 Stat 567 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000402 |
nothing in statute | |||
| Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act | Sponsor | Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act | NO short title | Rep. John Dingell (Sr.)(D-MI) and Sen. Edwin Johnson (D-CO) | 16 USC 777 (note) | 64 Stat 430 | Y |
Dingell - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000354; Johnson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000127; http://www.dcnr.state.al.us/research-mgmt/sport-fish.cfm |
statutized as "Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act" by S. 101(c ) of 114 Stat 1762 | |||
| Bailey Merchant Marine Act | Sponsor | Bailey Merchant Marine Act | NO short title | Sen. Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) | 54 Stat 684 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000046 |
nothing in statute; Hard to tell where the name comes from. No info from quick google search. | ||||
| Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act | Sponsor | Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act | "Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act" | Sen. John Bankhead (D-AL) and Rep. John Jones (D-TX) | 7 USC 1000 | 50 Stat 522 | Y |
Bankhead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000110; Jones - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236 |
short title in unnumbered section 1 | |||
| Ashurst-Sumners Act (Shipment in Interstate Commerce of Convict Made Goods) | Sponsor | Ashurst-Sumners Act (Shipment in Interstate Commerce of Convict Made Goods) | NO short title | Sen. Henry Fountain Ashurst, (D-AZ); Rep. Hatton William Sumners, (D-TX) | 18 USC 1761 | 49 Stat 494 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000319; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001072 |
name not statutized (neither Ashurst-Summers nor Shipment in Interstate��_��__��_��___) | |||
| Bankhead-Jones Act | Sponsor | Bankhead-Jones Act | NO short title | Sen. John Bankhead (D-AL) and Rep. John Jones (D-TX) | 7 USC 427 | 49 Stat 436 | Y |
Bankhead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000110; Jones - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236 |
statutized by reference in 91 Stat 1021 (1977) | |||
| Fletcher-Rayburn Securities Act of 1933 (see Securities Act of 1933) | Sponsor | Fletcher-Rayburn Securities Act of 1933 (see Securities Act of 1933) | "Securities Act of 1933" | Sen. Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, (D-FL); Rep. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, (D-TX) | 15 USC 77a | 48 Stat 74 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000200; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000082 |
short title at beginning; "Fletcher-Rayburn" not statutized | |||
| Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act | Sponsor | Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act | NO short title | Rep. John Kerr (D-NC); Probably Sen. Ellison Smith (D-SC) | 48 Stat 1275 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000138; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000530 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932" | 47 Stat 525 | ||||||||
| Lindbergh Kidnapping Act (see Kidnapping Act) | Victim | Lindbergh Kidnapping Act (see Kidnapping Act) | NO short title | The son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, kidnapped March 2, 1932. | 47 Stat 326 | N |
Bomar, "The Lindbergh Law," Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct. 1934), available http://www.jstor.org/stable/1189659. |
nothing in statute |