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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Randolph-Sheppard Act (aka Randolph-Sheppard Vending Stand Act) | Sponsor | Randolph-Sheppard Act (aka Randolph-Sheppard Vending Stand Act) | NO short title | Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-WV) and Sen. Morris Sheppard (D-TX) | 20 USC 107 (note) | ch 638, 49 Stat 1559 | Y |
Randolph - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000046; Sheppard - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
statutized by 88 Stat 1623 | |||
Lesinski Pension Increase Act | Sponsor | Lesinski Pension Increase Act | NO short title | Rep. John Lesinski (D-MI) | ch 246, 54 Stat 237 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000251 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Fascell Fellowship Act | Sponsor | Fascell Fellowship Act | "Fascell Fellowship Act" | Rep. Dante Fascell, (D-FL) | 22 USC 4901 | 99-399 | 100 Stat 893 | Y |
Notable Members of Congress and the Laws They Sponsored, http://congress.indiana.edu/notable-members-congress-and-laws-they-spons... http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000041 |
short title at beginning of S 1001 | ||
Price-Anderson Act (see, also the Atomic Energy Damages Act) | Sponsor | Price-Anderson Act (see, also the Atomic Energy Damages Act) | NO short title | Rep. Charles Price, (D-IL); Sen. Clinton Anderson, (D-NM) | 42 USC 2210 (note) | 85-256, section 4 | 71 Stat 576 |
08/01/1946 09/02/1957 |
Y |
Price - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000522; Anderson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000186 |
referred to as "Price-Anderson provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954" by "Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 1988", 102 Stat 1066 (1988) | |
Phipps Law | Sponsor | Phipps Law | NO short title | Sen. Lawrence Cowle Phipps, (R-PA) | 43 USC 384 | ch 150, 43 Stat 116 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000317 |
name not statutized | |||
Leavitt Act (Indians) | Sponsor | Leavitt Act (Indians) | NO short title | Rep. Scott Leavitt, (R-MT) | 25 USC 386a | ch. 369, 47 Stat 564 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000184 |
name not statutized | |||
Hatch-Sumners Act (Additional Judgeships) | Sponsor | Hatch-Sumners Act (Additional Judgeships) | NO short title | Sen. Carl Hatch (D-NM); Rep. Hatton Sumners (D-TX) | ch. 290, 52 Stat 584 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000334; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001072 |
nothing in statute | ||||
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 | ||
Magnuson-Moss Warranty--Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act | Sponsor | Magnuson-Moss Warranty--Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act | "Magnuson-Moss Warranty--Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act" | Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) and Rep. John E. Moss (D-CA) (sponsor of House vehicle, HR 7917) | 15 USC 2301 (note) | 93-637 | 88 Stat 2183 | Y |
Magnuson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000053; Moss - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001035 |
Enacting clause | ||
Wagner-Cole Act (see Trust Indenture Act of 1939) | Sponsor | Wagner-Cole Act (see Trust Indenture Act of 1939) | "Trust Indenture Act of 1939" | Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-N.Y.); Rep. William Purington Cole Jr., (D-MD), . NOTE: TWO Coles; this is the only dem though: probably joined to pass? | 15 USC 77aaa | ch 411, 53 Stat 1149 |
05/27/1933 08/03/1939 |
N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000616 |
"Wagner-Cole" not statutized; short title included in the amending language in 1939, adding to Title III of the Act passed in 1933 |