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 |
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Aldrich Act (Currency) | Sponsor | Aldrich Act (Currency) | NO short title | Sen. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, (R-R.I) | 12 USCA 178 (repealed) | 34 Stat 1289 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083 |
Repealed by PL 103-325, 108 Stat 2293 - popular name not mentioned in repeal | |||
Sheppard Air Corps Cadet Act (see Army Aviation Cadet Act) | Sponsor | Sheppard Air Corps Cadet Act (see Army Aviation Cadet Act) | "Army Aviation Cadet Act" | Sen. Morris Sheppard (D-TX), Chairman of Committee on Military Affairs until his death on April 9, 1941 | ch 165, 55 Stat 239 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
short title at end - "Army Aviation Cadet Act" | ||||
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) | ||
Smoot-Hawley Act (see Tariff Act of 1930) | Sponsor | Smoot-Hawley Act (see Tariff Act of 1930) | "Tariff Act of 1930" | Sen. Reed Smoot, 1903-1933, (R-UT); Rep. Willis Chatman Hawley, (R-OR) | 19 USC 1654 (short title) | ch 497, 46 Stat 590 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000644; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000379 |
"Smoot-Hawley" never statutized; short title at end - "Tariff Act of 1930" | |||
McCarran-Walter Act (see Immigration and Nationality Act) | Sponsor | McCarran-Walter Act (see Immigration and Nationality Act) | "Immigration and Nationality Act" | Sen. Patrick Anthony McCarran, (D-NV); Rep. Francis Walter (D-PA) | 8 USC 1101 | ch 477, 66 Stat 163 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000308; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000108 |
"McCarran-Walker" not statutized; short title at beginning | |||
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?? | |||
Dyer Act (Motor Vehicles) (see National Motor Vehicle Theft Act) | Sponsor | Dyer Act (Motor Vehicles) (see National Motor Vehicle Theft Act) | "National Motor Vehicle Theft Act" | Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer; (R-MO) | ch 89, 41 Stat 324 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000591 |
short title at beginning - "the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act" | ||||
Lea Act (Radio-Coercive Practices) | Sponsor | Lea Act (Radio-Coercive Practices) | NO short title | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA) | 47 USC 506 | ch. 138, 60 Stat 89 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163 |
name not statutized (repealed) | |||
Wheeler Coal-Miners Act (see Railroad Retirement Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Wheeler Coal-Miners Act (see Railroad Retirement Act of 1937) | NO short title | Sen. Burton Kendall Wheeler, (D-MT) | 45 USC 231t | 88 Stat 1305 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000330 |
Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 retdirects to Railroad Retirement Act of 1974; Seems to have initiall been 1934, then updated in 1937 then in 1974, but it's unclear where the Coal Miners come in.; 88 Stat 1305: title I short title at end "Railroad Retirement Act of 1974", still unclear where Coal Minders; "Wheeler" not statutized | |||
Esch Act (Hours of Service on Railroads) (see Hours of Service Act (Railroads)) | Sponsor | Esch Act (Hours of Service on Railroads) (see Hours of Service Act (Railroads)) | NO short title | Rep. John Jacob Esch, (R-WI) | 45 USC 61 | ch 2939, 34 Stat 1415 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000212 |
name not statutized |