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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garfield Act (Compulsory Railway Connection) | Sponsor | Garfield Act (Compulsory Railway Connection) | NO short title | Rep. James Abram Garfield, (future POTUS), (R-OH) | 45 USC 84 | ch. 124, 14 Stat 66 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000063 |
R.S. Section 5258 - no idea what this means; nothing in statute; | |||
| Pickett Act | Sponsor | Pickett Act | NO short title | Rep. Charles Edgar Pickett, (R-IA) | 43 USC 141 | ch 421, 36 Stat 847 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000325 |
name not statutized; authorizing president to withdraw from public lands | |||
| Hatfield-Keller Railroad Retirement Act (see Railroad Retirement Act) | Sponsor | Hatfield-Keller Railroad Retirement Act (see Railroad Retirement Act) | "Railroad Retirement Act" | Sen. Henry Drury Hatfield, 1929-35, (R-W.VA); Rep. Kent Ellsworth Keller, (D-IL) | 45 USC 201 | ch 868, 48 Stat 1283 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000342; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000056 |
name not statutized; short title listed in definitions - Section 2(m) - "Railroad Retirement Act"; declared unconstitution by SCOTUS | |||
| Pittman Embassy Picketing Act | Sponsor | Pittman Embassy Picketing Act | NO short title | Sen. Key Pittman, (D-NV) | 22 USC 255a, 255b | ch 29, 52 Stat 30 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000372 |
repealed, not statutized; prohibiting picketing (except for labor disputes) in front of embassies | |||
| La Follete-Barden Vocational Rehabilitation Act (see Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1943) | Sponsor | La Follete-Barden Vocational Rehabilitation Act (see Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1943) | "Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1943" | Rep. Charles Marion La Follette, (D-IN); Rep. Graham Arthur Barden, (D-N.C.) | ch 190, 57 Stat 374 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000003; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000139 |
short title at end - "Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1943" | ||||
| QI Program Supplemental Funding Act of 2008 | Description | QI Program Supplemental Funding Act of 2008 | "QI Program Supplemental Funding Act of 2008" | 42 USC 14305 | 110-379 | 122 Stat 4075 | N | short title at beginning of statute; QI stands for Qualifying Individual, but is only spelled out in Section 2 | ||||
| Bland War-Risk Insurance Act (see Merchant Marine Act, 1936) | Sponsor | Bland War-Risk Insurance Act (see Merchant Marine Act, 1936) | "Merchant Marine Act, 1936" | Schuyler Otis Bland, (D-VA) | 46 USC 101 note | ch 858, 49 Stat 1985 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000545 |
Section 906 gives short title as "Merchant Marine Act, 1936"; "Bland War-Risk" not statutized | |||
| Kilday Bill | Sponsor | Kilday Bill | "Federal Aid Highway Act of 1961" | Rep. Paul Joseph Kilday, (D-TX) | 85-422 | 72 Stat 122 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000171 |
not in statute -- short title is "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1961" | |||
| Wilson Act (aka Original Packages Act) | Sponsor | Wilson Act (aka Original Packages Act) | NO short title | Sen. James Wilson (R-IA) | 27 USC 121 (note) | ch 728, 26 Stat 313 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000594 |
name not statutized; but both names are listed under short title note; see also Andrew Alexander Bruce, The Wilson Act and the Constitution, Green Bag, Vol. 21, Issue 5 (May 1909) and 21 Cong. Rec. 4954 (1890). | |||
| Wagner-Connery Wages and Hours Act (see Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Wagner-Connery Wages and Hours Act (see Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938) | "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938" | Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-N.Y.); Rep. William Patrick Connery, Jr., 1923-37, (D-MA). | 29 USC 201 | ch 676, 52 Stat 1060 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000694; see also http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm |
ST at beginning; "Wagner-Connery" not statutized |