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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guayule Rubber Act | Description | Guayule Rubber Act | NO short title | 7 USC 171 | ch. 140, 56 Stat 126 | N | guayule is a thing; name not statutized | |||||
| America the Beautiful Act of 1990 | Political Description | America the Beautiful Act of 1990 | "America the Beautiful Act of 1990" | 16 USC 2101 | 101-624 | 104 Stat 3553 | N | creating tree-planting foundation | ||||
| Jones-White Act (see Merchant Marine Act, 1928) | Sponsor | Jones-White Act (see Merchant Marine Act, 1928) | "Merchant Marine Act, 1928" | Sen. Wesley L. Jones (R-WA); Rep. Wallace H. White (R-ME) | ch 675, 45 Stat 689 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000257 |
short title at end - "Merchant Marine Act, 1928" | ||||
| Glass Bank Official Loan Act (see Bank Official Loan Act) | Sponsor | Glass Bank Official Loan Act (see Bank Official Loan Act) | NO short title | Sen. Carter Glass, (D-VA) | 12 USC 375a | ch 89, ��_��__12, 48 Stat 182 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000232 |
only statutized as Federal Reserve Act, no mention of Glass | |||
| Klamath Termination Act | Location | Klamath Termination Act | NO short title | Klamath, OR | 25 USC 564 | ch. 732, 68 Stat 718 | N | name not statutized; Klamath, OR | ||||
| Aldrich-Vreeland Act (National Currency Assocations) | Sponsor | Aldrich-Vreeland Act (National Currency Assocations) | NO short title | Sen. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, (R-R.I); Rep. Edward Butterfield Vreeland, (R-N.Y.) | 12 USCA 104 (repealed) | 35 Stat 546 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000122 |
Repealed by PL 103-325, 108 Stat 2292 - popular name not mentioned in repeal | |||
| Phipps Law | Sponsor | Phipps Law | NO short title | Sen. Lawrence Cowle Phipps, (R-PA) | 43 USC 384 | ch 150, 43 Stat 116 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000317 |
name not statutized | |||
| Leavitt Act (Indians) | Sponsor | Leavitt Act (Indians) | NO short title | Rep. Scott Leavitt, (R-MT) | 25 USC 386a | ch. 369, 47 Stat 564 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000184 |
name not statutized | |||
| Right to Work Law | Description | Right to Work Law | NO short title | 29 USC 164 | ch 372, S 14, 49 Stat 457 | N | nothing in statute about "Right to Work", cited as the "National Labor Relations Act"; "Right to Work" never statutized | |||||
| QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005 | Description | QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005 | "QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005" | 42 USC 1305 | 109-91 | 119 Stat 2091 | N | short title at beginning of statute |