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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jencks Act | Case | Jencks Act | NO short title | Named for Clinton Jencks, a union organizer whose appeal to the Supreme Court (in Jencks v. US, 353 US 657 (1957)) spurred Congress to pass a law requiring prosecutors to produce a verbatim statement or report made by government witnesses in federal criminal trials. | 18 USC 3500 | 85-269 | 71 Stat 595 | Y |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/dec/31/guardianobituaries.film |
name not statutized; BUT referred to as "Jencks Act" in notes by the Advisory Committee on Rules in the 1983 FRCP revisions | ||
| Congenital Heart Futures Act | Description | Congenital Heart Futures Act | "Congenital Heart Futures Act" | 42 USC 201 note | 111-148, title X, section 10411 | 124 Stat 988 | N | short title at beginning of Section; national congenital heart disease surveillance system | ||||
| War Department Civil Appropriations Act, 1938 | Description | War Department Civil Appropriations Act, 1938 | "War Department Civil Appropriations Act, 1938" | Ch. 511, 50 Stat 515 | ||||||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936" | Ch. 49, 49 Stat 1109 | ||||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1927" | ch. 226, 44 Stat 1250 | ||||||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1922" | Ch. 1, 42 Stat 327 | ||||||||
| Agricultural Credits Act of 1923 | Description | Agricultural Credits Act of 1923 | "Agricultural Credits Act of 1923" | Ch. 252, 42 Stat 1454 | ||||||||
| Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937 | Description | Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937 | "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1937" | Ch. 156, 49 Stat 1167 | ||||||||
| Banking Act of 1933 | Description | Banking Act of 1933 | "Banking Act of 1933" | 12 USC 227 | Ch. 89, 48 Stat 162 |