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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McSweeney-McNary Act (see Forest Products Act) | Sponsor | McSweeney-McNary Act (see Forest Products Act) | NO short title | Rep. John McSweeney (D-OH) and Sen. Charles McNary (R-OR) | 16 USC 581 | 45 Stat 699 | Y |
McSweeney - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000606; McNary - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000583 |
statutized by reference in repeal through 92 Stat 356 | |||
| Vreeland-Aldrich Act (National Currency Associations) | Sponsor | Vreeland-Aldrich Act (National Currency Associations) | NO short title | Rep. Edward Butterfield Vreeland, (R-N.Y.); Sen. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, R- R.I.) | ch 229, 35 Stat 546 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000122; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Fuller Act (Pensions, Civil War, War with Mexico) | Sponsor | Fuller Act (Pensions, Civil War, War with Mexico) | NO short title | Most likely Rep. Charles Fuller (R-IL), Chair of Committee on Invalid Pensions | ch. 165, 41 Stat 585 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000407 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Cochran-Hull Act | Sponsor | Cochran-Hull Act | NO short title | Probably Rep. John J. Cochran (D-MO) (1926-1947); Probably Sen. Cordell Hull (D-TN) (1931-1933); | ch. 464, 47 Stat 649 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000565; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000940 |
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; | |||
| Lucas Act | Sponsor | Lucas Act | NO short title | Sen. Scott Lucas (D-IL) | ch. 864, 60 Stat 902 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000493 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act | Sponsor | Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act | "Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976" | Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) | 16 USC 1801 (note) | 94-265 | 90 Stat 331 | Y |
Magnuson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000053; Stevens - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000888; Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Stevens_Fishery_Conservati... |
statutized by amending short title to "Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act" in S. 238 of 94 Stat 3275; subsequent amendments refer to "Magnuson" until 2007, then 120 Stat 3575 amends "Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act", despite the fact that Stevens was never previously included | ||
| Carlisle Act (Internal Revenue) | Sponsor | Carlisle Act (Internal Revenue) | NO short title | Rep. John Griffin Carlisle (D-KY) | 19 USC 468, 469 | ch. 108, 21 Stat 145 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000152 |
PNT has 21 Stat 148 but it has to be wrong | |||
| Linthicum-Moses Act (see Foreign Service Act) | Sponsor | Linthicum-Moses Act (see Foreign Service Act) | NO short title | Rep. John Charles Linthicum, (D-MA); Sen. George Higgins Moses, (R-N.H.) | ch 182, 43 Stat 140 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000340; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001028 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Dick Act of 1903 (see Militia Act of 1903) | Sponsor | Dick Act of 1903 (see Militia Act of 1903) | NO short title | Sen. Charles W F Dick (R-OH), sponsor and chair of the Committee on the Militia | ch 196, 32 Stat 775 | X |