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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| Dawes Act (Indians) (see Indian General Allotment Act) | Sponsor | Dawes Act (Indians) (see Indian General Allotment Act) | NO short title | Sen. Henry Laurens Dawes, (R-MA) | 25 USC 331 | ch 119, 24 Stat 388 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000148 |
nothing in statute; name not statutized | |||
| 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 Edward Butterfield Vreeland, (R-N.Y.) | 12 USCA 104 (repealed) | 35 Stat 546 | N |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Repealed by PL 103-325, 108 Stat 2292 - popular name not mentioned in repeal | |||
| 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 | ||||
| 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; | |||
| President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 | Description | President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 | "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992" | 44 USC 2107 (note) | 102-526 | 106 Stat 3443 | N | short title and named in long title | ||||
| TREAD Act | Acrostic | TREAD Act | "Transporation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act" | 49 USC 30101 | 106-414 | 114 Stat 1800 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Van Nuys Anti-Trust Act | Sponsor | Van Nuys Anti-Trust Act | NO short title | Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, (D-IN) | 15 USC 16 (note) | ch 589, 56 Stat 781 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000050 |
not statutized | |||
| White Act (Collisions on Great Lakes) | Sponsor | White Act (Collisions on Great Lakes) | NO short title | Most likely Rep. George Elon (R-IL) (other White was from CA) | 33 USC 241 | ch 64, 28 Stat 645 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000371 |
name not statutized |