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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolie Trade Prohibition Act | Description | Coolie Trade Prohibition Act | No short title, but long title includes "Coolie Trade" | The "Coolie Trade" refers to the trafficking of persons from Asia, mostly China and India, to work as slaves or low-wage laborers. The term "Coolie" is a perjorative. | ch. 27, 12 Stat 340 | Y | "Coolie Trade" actually in the name of the statute: "An Act to prohibit the "Coolie Trade" by American Citizens in American Vessels | |||||
| Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act | Sponsor | Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act | "Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act" | Sen. John Bankhead (D-AL) and Rep. John Jones (D-TX) | 7 USC 1000 | 50 Stat 522 | Y |
Bankhead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000110; Jones - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236 |
short title in unnumbered section 1 | |||
| Capper-Volstead Act (See Co-operative Marketing Assocations Act) | Sponsor | Capper-Volstead Act (See Co-operative Marketing Assocations Act) | NO short title | Sen. Arthur Capper (R-KS) and Rep. Andrew Volstead (R-MN) | 7 USC 291, 292 | ch 57, 42 Stat 388 | Y |
Capper - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000133; Volstead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000114; http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/info/capper.html |
"Capper-Volstead" statutized by reference in 94 Stat 374 (1980 amendment to 7 USC 292) | |||
| Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 | Location | Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 | "Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995" | Chaco was a city in New Mexico a thousand years ago, now protected as a National Historical Park | 104-11 | 109 Stat 158 | Y | |||||
| McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | Sponsor | McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | "McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001" | Rep. Stewart McKinney, (R-CT); Rep. Bruce Vento, (D-Farmer-Labour-MN) | 42 USC 11301 (note) | 107-110, title X, part C (section 1031) | 115 Stat 1989 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000087 |
short title | ||
| Hatian Hempispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 | Acrostic | Hatian Hempispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 | "Haitian Hempispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006" | 19 USC 2701 | 109-432, div D, title V | 120 Stat 3181 | Y | short title at beginning of title V; Acronym (HOPE) is not listed in popular names table, but is one of the short titles of the 2008 amendment | ||||
| PACT Act | Acrostic | PACT Act | "Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009" or "PACT Act" | 15 USC 375 | 111-154 | 124 Stat 1087 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act | Honor | Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act | "National School Lunch Act" | Sen. Richard B. Russell (GA) | 42 USC 1751 (note) | ch 281, 60 Stat 230 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000536 |
enacting clause "may be cited as the 'National School Lunch Act'"; renamed for "Richard B. Russell" in 1999 by 113 Stat 1169 | |||
| Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974 | Sponsor | Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974 | "Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments of 1974" | Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-WV) and Sen. Morris Sheppard (D-TX) | 20 USC 107 (note) | 93-516, title II | 88 Stat 1622 | Y |
Randolph - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000046; Sheppard - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
short title and title II; named as "Randolph-Sheppard Act" in findings | ||
| Pope John Paul II Congressional Gold Medal Act | Award | Pope John Paul II Congressional Gold Medal Act | "Pope John Paul II Congressional Gold Medal Act" | 31 USC 5111 (note) | 106-250 | 114 Stat 622 | Y | short title and long title; granting gold medal to PJPII |