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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 | Honor/Sponsor | Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 | "Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005" | Rep. Clinton Anderson (NM) and Rep. Charles Melvin Price (IL), both of whom went on to chair the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. | 42 USC 2210 (note) | 109-408, title VI, subtitle A (section 601) | 119 Stat 779 | Y |
Anderson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000186; Price - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000522 |
short title and subtitle | ||
| Homeownership and Opportunity Through HOPE Act | Abrreviation | Homeownership and Opportunity Through HOPE Act | "Homeownership and Opportunity Through HOPE Act" | 42 USC 1437aaa | 101-625, title IV | 104 Stat 4148 | Y | short title at beginning of title IV; HOPE is capitalized but does not seem to be an acronym | ||||
| Lacey Act (Game) | Sponsor | Lacey Act (Game) | NO short title | Rep. John F. Lacey (R-IA), introduced bill | 16 USC 3371 | ch. 553, 31 Stat 187 | Y |
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2000/2000-98.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000010 |
Name statutized through Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, 95 Stat 1073; conservation act | |||
| Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 | Honor | Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 | "Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998" | Rep. Carl D. Perkins (KY) was chair of the Committee on Education and Labor for 16 years until his death in 1984. | 20 USC 2301 | 105-332 | 112 Stat 3076 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000230 |
short title, also is amending law previously named for Perkins | ||
| Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 | Acrostic | Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 | "Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009" | 42 USC 11301 | 111-22, div B | 123 Stat 1663 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; acronym not listed in PNT | ||||
| Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 | Location | Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 | "Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995" | Chaco was a city in New Mexico a thousand years ago, now protected as a National Historical Park | 104-11 | 109 Stat 158 | Y | |||||
| Humphrey-Thye-Blatnik-Andresen Act | Sponsor | Humphrey-Thye-Blatnik-Andresen Act | NO short title | Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), Sen. Edward Thye (R-MN), Rep. John Blatnik (D-MN), and Rep. Herman Andersen (R-MN). | 16 USC 577d-1 | ch. 425, 70 Stat 326 | Y |
Humphrey - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953; Thye - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000259; Blatnik - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000550; Andersen - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000179 |
statutized by reference in S. 4, 78 Stat 893; lands in northern MN | |||
| McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | Sponsor | McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | "McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001" | Rep. Stewart McKinney, (R-CT); Rep. Bruce Vento, (D-Farmer-Labour-MN) | 42 USC 11301 (note) | 107-110, title X, part C (section 1031) | 115 Stat 1989 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000087 |
short title | ||
| Hatian Hempispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 | Acrostic | Hatian Hempispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 | "Haitian Hempispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006" | 19 USC 2701 | 109-432, div D, title V | 120 Stat 3181 | Y | short title at beginning of title V; Acronym (HOPE) is not listed in popular names table, but is one of the short titles of the 2008 amendment | ||||
| Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006 | Acrostic | Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006 | "Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006" | 26 USC 1 note | 109-432, div A, title III | 120 Stat 2948 | Y | short title at beginning of Title III; this would be more interesting if it is NOT called the "HOPE Act", which in fact it is not in the PNT |