
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.
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.
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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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Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 | Award | Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 | "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968" | President Woodrow Wilson | 20 USC 80e (note) | 90-637 | 82 Stat 1356 | Y |
Legislation text |
long title and short title; | ||
Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin Act of 1978 | Award | Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin Act of 1978 | "Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin Act of 1978" | Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, suffragist and abolitionist. | 31 USC 324b-1 | 95-447 | 92 Stat 1072 | Y | creating the SBA dollar coin | |||
William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act | Award | William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act | "William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act" | Rep. William Levi Dawson (IL), attended Fisk University. | 96-374, title XIII, part H, subpart 3 (section 1381) | 94 Stat 1503 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000158 |
short title; establishing named chair at Fisk University | |||
Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act | Award | Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act | "Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act" | Awarding Congressional Gold Medal to the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. | 31 USC 5111 (note) | 109-287 | 120 Stat 1231 | Y | title and short title; awarding congressional gold medal | |||
Congressional Tribute to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Act of 2006 | Award | Congressional Tribute to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Act of 2006 | "Congressional Tribute to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Act of 2006" | 31 USC 5111 (note) | 109-395 | 120 Stat 2708 | N | awarding congressional gold medal -- but this is the only one named as "Congressional Tribute" | ||||
Baby Doe Amendment | Case | Baby Doe Amendment | NO short title | Series of "Baby Doe" child endangerment cases in the early 1980s. | 98-457, title I part B | 98 Stat 1752 | N |
Kathryn Moss, "The 'Baby Doe' Legislation Its Rise and Fall" Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 4 (June 1987) |
services and treatment for disabled infants -- possible that "Baby Doe" was an individual infant and this was passed in response?? | |||
Sabbatino Amendment (see Hickenlooper Amendment) | Case | Sabbatino Amendment (see Hickenlooper Amendment) | NO short title | Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (IA) introduced the amendment, and the name "Sabbatino" comes from Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398 (1964). The amendment reversed the Court's holding in favor of the validity of the act of state doctrine. | 22 USC 2370(e )(2) | 88-633, part III, ��_��__301(d)(4) | 78 Stat 1013 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000559 |
Unclear why the Hickenlooper Amendment listed in the PNT is from 1964. It was first attached to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1962 (76 Stat 255). Also, Rep. Hays apparently claimed co-parentage of the amendment (see W. Averell Harriman, The Protection of Foreign Investment and the Hickenlooper Amendment, 112 U.Penn.L.Rev. 1116, http://www.jstor.org/pss/3310530) | ||
Petrillo Bill | Case | Petrillo Bill | "Communications Act of 1934" | Defendant James Petrillo in U.S. v. Petrillo (332 U.S. 1, 1947), who was prosecuted for violation of a provision of the Communications Act of 1934. Petrillo was the head of the American Federation of Musicians. | 47 USC 609 | ch 652, 48 Stat 1064 | N | "Petrillo" not statutized; short title at end - "Communications Act of 1934" (creating FCC); Although the two acts are cross-referenced in the PNT, the "Petrillo Bill" was actually an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934, adopted on April 16, 1946. See American Newspaper Publishers Ass'n v. NLRB (345 U.S. 100) (1953). | ||||
Wunderlich Act | Case | Wunderlich Act | NO short title | Named for U.S. v. Wunderlich (1951); Act was enacted to overturn the decision | ch 199, 68 Stat 81 | X | nothing in statute; permitting review of decisions by govt agency heads | |||||
Hiss Act (Pensions) | Case | Hiss Act (Pensions) | NO short title | Accused spy and convicted perjurer Alger Hiss | ch. 1214, 68 Stat 1142 | X |
Hiss v. Hampton, 338 F.Supp. 1141 (D.D.C. 1972) |
nothing in statute |