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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson-Price Atomic Energy Damages Act | Sponsor | Anderson-Price Atomic Energy Damages Act | NO short title | Rep. Clinton Anderson (D-NM) and Rep. Charles Melvin Price (D-IL), both of whom went on to chair the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. | 42 USC 2210 (note) | 85-256 | 71 Stat 576 | Y |
Anderson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000186; Price - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000522 |
"Price-Anderson" statutized by reference in 102 Stat 1066 | ||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Development Act of 1992 | Honor | Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Development Act of 1992 | "Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Development Act of 1992" | President Dwight D. Eisenhower | 102-325 Title X Section 1004; 89-329, Title X, part D | 106 Stat 783 | Y | establishing Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Program; PL 89-329 is Higher Education Act of 1965 | ||||
| SAFE Act | Acrostic | SAFE Act | "Set America Free Act of 2005" or "SAFE Act" | 109-58, title XIV, subtitle B (1421) | 119 Stat 1064 | Y | short title at beginning of subtitle B; energy self-sufficiency | |||||
| Edmunds Act (Polygamy) | Sponsor | Edmunds Act (Polygamy) | NO short title | Sen. George Edmunds (R-VT) | ch. 47, 22 Stat 30 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000056 |
nothing in statute (made polygamy a felony) | ||||
| McKeown Act (Corporate Bankruptcy) | Sponsor | McKeown Act (Corporate Bankruptcy) | NO short title | Rep. Thomas McKeown (D-OK) (1917-1934) | ch 424, 48 Stat 911 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000511 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Brown-Lea Natural Gas Act | Sponsor | Brown-Lea Natural Gas Act | "Natural Gas Act" | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA); Sen. Prentiss Brown (D-MI) | 15 USC 717w | ch 556, 52 Stat 821 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000941 (for information regarding Sen. Brown's involvement in the bill, see The Fpc and Indefinite Price Escalation Clauses: Remedy for Administrative Breakdown, 73 Yale L.J. 1283 (1964), n. 26) |
short title at end; | |||
| Tariff Act of 1930 | Description | Tariff Act of 1930 | "Tariff Act of 1930" | 19 USC 1654 | Ch. 497, 46 Stat 590 | |||||||
| 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��_��__��_��___) | |||
| Sheppard Bone-Dry Law in District of Columbia | Sponsor | Sheppard Bone-Dry Law in District of Columbia | NO short title | Sen. Morris Sheppard, (D-TX) | ch 165, 39 Stat 1123 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Staggers Rail Act of 1980 | Honor | Staggers Rail Act of 1980 | "Staggers Rail Act of 1980" | Rep. Henry Orrin Staggers (WV), who chaired the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, and retired in 1980. Interestingly, Staggers was NOT the sponsor of the legislation, though it did go through his Committee. | 49 USC 10101 (note) | 96-448 | 94 Stat 1895 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000778 |
short title; from Wikipedia (with no cite): The act was named for Congressman Harley Staggers (D-WV), who chaired the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Although it is traditional for laws to be known by the names of their sponsors, this is believed to be the first (but not last) case in which the sponsor's name was officially incorporated into the text of a Federal statute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act |