October 26, 2012
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Industrial Recovery Act | Description | National Industrial Recovery Act | "National Industrial Recovery Act" | Ch. 90, 48 Stat 195 | ||||||||
| Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | Sponsor | Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | "Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006" | Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (WA) and Sen. Ted Stevens (AK) | 16 USC 1801 (note) | 109-479 | 120 Stat 3575 | Y |
Magnuson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000053; Stevens - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000888 |
The House version was named for Stevens-Inouye, but the Senate version was Magnuson-Stevens. The law had previously been statutized only with Magnuson's name, not Stevens's. | ||
| Humphrey-Thye-Blatnik-Andresen Act | Sponsor | Humphrey-Thye-Blatnik-Andresen Act | NO short title | Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), Sen. Edward Thye (R-MN), Rep. John Blatnik (D-MN), and Rep. Herman Andersen (R-MN). | 16 USC 577d-1 | ch. 425, 70 Stat 326 | Y |
Humphrey - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953; Thye - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000259; Blatnik - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000550; Andersen - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000179 |
statutized by reference in S. 4, 78 Stat 893; lands in northern MN | |||
| 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 | |||
| Sills Act (Pensions, Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, China Relief Expedition) | Sponsor | Sills Act (Pensions, Spanish War, Philippine Insurrection, China Relief Expedition) | NO short title | Rep. Sam Riley Sells (R-TN) | ch 245, 41 Stat 982 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000235 |
nothing in statute; PNT error - listed as "Sills" but should be "Sells", who was sponsor | ||||
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act of 2002 | Honor | Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act of 2002 | "Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act of 2002" | Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (NY) | 33 USC 1251 (note) | 107-303, title II | 116 Stat 2358 | Y |
http://www.lcbp.org/lcbpsumr.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001054 |
short title; Moynihan was one of the sponsors of the underlying bill (1990, Lake Champlain Special Designation Act), he had retired from the Senate in 2000 | ||
| Bailey Merchant Marine Act | Sponsor | Bailey Merchant Marine Act | NO short title | Sen. Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) | 54 Stat 684 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000046 |
nothing in statute; Hard to tell where the name comes from. No info from quick google search. | ||||
| Curtis Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | Sponsor | Curtis Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | NO short title | Sen. Charles Curtis, (R-KA) | 43 USC 468 | ch. 49, 36 Stat 902 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001008 |
name not statutized | |||
| Savings are Vital to Everyone's Retirement Act of 1997 | Acrostic | Savings are Vital to Everyone's Retirement Act of 1997 | "Savings Are Vital to Everyone's Retirement Act of 1997" | 29 USC 1001 | 105-92 | 111 Stat 2139 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; no abbreviation listed in either PNT or statute | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937" | Ch. 9, 50 Stat 8 |