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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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First Deficiency Appropriations Act, fiscal year 1936 | Description | First Deficiency Appropriations Act, fiscal year 1936 | "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936" | Ch. 689, 49 Stat 1597 | ||||||||
No entry | Description | No entry | "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937" | Ch. 9, 50 Stat 8 | ||||||||
First Inventor Defense Act | Description | First Inventor Defense Act | "First Investor Defense Act of 1999" | 35 USC 1 | 106-113, div B, section 1000(a)(9) | 113 Stat 1536, 1501A-555 | N | Subtitle C - starts at 1501A-555 | ||||
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 | ||
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 | Honor/Sponsor | Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 | "Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001" | Rep. Floyd D. Spence (SC), Chair of the House Armed Services Committee (106th Cong.), died in office in 2001. | 106-398, section 1 | 114 Stat 1654, 1654A-1 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000718 |
Actual act passed simply enacted HR 5408 from the previous Congress; Floyd D. Spence is short title at beginning of HR 5408, no short title to act.H185; Originally introduced by Rep. Spence without his name attached, seems to have been added in Committee. | |||
Follow Through Act | Political Description | Follow Through Act | "Follow Through Act" | "Follow Through" programs are available after "Head Start" programs. | 42 USC 9801 note | 97-35, title VI, subtitle A, ch 8, sbch D | 95 Stat 508 | Y | short title of subchapter C; post Head Start programs | |||
Delaney Amendment (see Food Addititves Amendment of 1958) | Sponsor | Delaney Amendment (see Food Addititves Amendment of 1958) | "Food Additives Amendment of 1968" | Rep.James Joseph Delaney, (D-NY) | 21 USC 301 | 85-929 | 72 Stat 1784 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000211 |
short title at beginning - "Food Additives Amendment of 1958" | ||
Food for Peace Act of 1966 | Political Description | Food for Peace Act of 1966 | "Food for Peace Act of 1966" | 7 USC 1691 | 89-808 | 80 Stat 1526 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; amending Argicultural Trade Development and Assistance Act | ||||
Food for Progress Act of 1985 | Political Description | Food for Progress Act of 1985 | "Food for Progress Act of 1985" | 7 USC 1736o(a) | 99-198, title XI, S 1110 | 99 Stat 1472 | Y | short title at beginning of S 1110 | ||||
Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act | Honor | Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act | "Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) died in 1996. | 7 USC 1736f-1 | 96-494 (Title III) | 94 Stat 2578 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000174 |
law amended to change short title to "Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act" by 112 Stat 3466 (1998) ("Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998") |