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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Sikes Act | Sponsor | Sikes Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Sikes (D-FL) | 16 USC 670 (note) | 86-797 | 74 Stat 1052 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000406 |
statutized by Sec. 2902-2903 of 111 Stat 2016 | ||
Shirley Temple Act (Child Labor) | Honor | Shirley Temple Act (Child Labor) | NO short title | Child actress Shirley Temple (later Shirley Temple Black) | 29 USC 213 (c ) | ch 676, section 13 (c ), 52 Stat 1068 | N |
Comment, Teenage Employment Emancipation and the Law, 9 U.PA. Journal of Labor and Employment Law 389, http://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jbl/articles/volume9/issue2/Ang9U.Pa.J... |
nothing in statute; exemption from prohibition on child labor for kids in agriculture not required to attend school and kids in motion pictures; name not statutized | |||
Shipstead-Nolan Act | Sponsor | Shipstead-Nolan Act | NO short title | Sen. Henrik Shipstead (R-MN) and Rep. William Nolan (R-MN) | 16 USC 577 (note) | ch 881, 46 Stat 1020 | Y |
Shipstead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000369; Nolan - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000128 |
statutized by reference in S. 4, 78 Stat 893; lands in northern MN | |||
Shipping Act, 1916 | Description | Shipping Act, 1916 | "Shipping Act, 1916" | Ch. 152, 40 Stat 900 | ||||||||
Sherwood Act (Mexican, Civil War Pensions) | Sponsor | Sherwood Act (Mexican, Civil War Pensions) | NO short title | Rep. Isaac R. Sherwood, (D-IA) | ch 123, 37 Stat 112 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000355 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Sherman Purchase of Silver Act of July 14, 1890 | Sponsor | Sherman Purchase of Silver Act of July 14, 1890 | NO short title | Sen. John Sherman (R-OH) | ch 708, 26 Stat 289 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000346 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Sherman Act | Sponsor | Sherman Act | NO short title | Sen. John Sherman (OH) | 15 USC 1 (note) | ch 647, 26 Stat 209 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000346; http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=51 |
"Sherman Act" added as a short title - Pub. L. 94-435, title III, Sec. 305(a), Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1397, added immediately following the enacting clause of act July 2, 1890, the following: ��_��__��_��__��_��__That this Act [this section and sections 2 to 7 of this title] may be cited as the ��_��__��_��__��_��__Sherman Act��_��__��_.��_��__��_ -- but name was statutized as Sherman Antitrust Act by 69 Stat 282 | |||
Sherley Amendment (Food and Drugs) | Sponsor | Sherley Amendment (Food and Drugs) | NO short title | Rep. Joseph Swagar Sherley, (D-KY) | ch 352, 37 Stat 416 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000343 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Sheppard-Towner Act (Maternity Hygiene) (see Maternity Act) | Sponsor | Sheppard-Towner Act (Maternity Hygiene) (see Maternity Act) | NO short title | Sen. Morris Sheppard, (D-TX); Rep. Horace Mann Towner, Ill, 1911-1923 (R-IA) | ch 135, 42 Stat 224 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000325 |
nothing in statute | ||||
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 |