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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harter Act (Carriage of Goods by Sea) | Sponsor | Harter Act (Carriage of Goods by Sea) | NO short title | Rep. Michael Harter (D-OH) | ch. 105, 27 Stat 445 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000296 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Eaton Foreign Service Act | Sponsor | Eaton Foreign Service Act | NO short title | Probably Rep. Charles Eaton (R-NJ) (later became Foreign Affairs Comm Chair) | ch. 330, 53 Stat 1067 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000023 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Norris-LaGuardia Act (Labor Disputes) | Sponsor | Norris-LaGuardia Act (Labor Disputes) | NO short title | Sen. George William Norris, (R-NE); Rep. Fiorello H. La Guardia, (R-N.Y.) | 29 USC 101 (note) | ch 90, 47 Stat 70 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000139; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000007 |
name not statutized | |||
| Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | Honor | Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | "Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act" | Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN) and his wife, Sheila. | 107-316 | 116 Stat 2764 | Y |
Legislation (Section 2, findings) |
short title; Wellstones also named in long title; providing money for an existing community center in St Paul, to be renamed for the Wellstones | |||
| Millspaugh Act (DC Banks) | Sponsor | Millspaugh Act (DC Banks) | NO short title | Rep. Frank Crenshaw, (R-MO) | ch 147, 42 Stat 500 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000781 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Guffey-Snyder Coal Act (see Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935) | Sponsor | Guffey-Snyder Coal Act (see Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935) | "Bituminous Ccoal Conservation Act of 1935" | Sen. Joseph E. Guffey, (D-PA); Rep. John Buell Snyder, (D-PA) | 15 USC 801 | ch 824, 49 Stat 991 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000519; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000668 |
"Guffey-Snyder" not statutized; short title at end (section 23) | |||
| Agricultural Credits Act of 1923 | Description | Agricultural Credits Act of 1923 | "Agricultural Credits Act of 1923" | Ch. 252, 42 Stat 1454 | ||||||||
| No Electronic Theft (NET) Act | Acrostic | No Electronic Theft (NET) Act | "No Electronic Theft (NET) Act" | 18 USC 2311 | 105-147 | 111 Stat 2678 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| La Follete Act (Seamen) (See Seamen's Act) | Sponsor | La Follete Act (Seamen) (See Seamen's Act) | NO short title | Sen. Robert Marion La Follette, (R-WI) | ch 153, 38 Stat 1164 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000004 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Temporary Child Care for Children With Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1992 | Description | Temporary Child Care for Children With Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1992 | "Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1992" | 42 USC 5117 | 99-401, title II | 100 Stat 907 | N | short title at beginning of title II; Temporary Child Care for Handicapped Children and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 - both names listed in PNT, 1992 amendments were "Children With Disabilities" |