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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staggers Rail Act of 1980 | Honor | Staggers Rail Act of 1980 | "Staggers Rail Act of 1980" | Rep. Henry Orrin Staggers (WV), who chaired the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, and retired in 1980. Interestingly, Staggers was NOT the sponsor of the legislation, though it did go through his Committee. | 49 USC 10101 (note) | 96-448 | 94 Stat 1895 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000778 |
short title; from Wikipedia (with no cite): The act was named for Congressman Harley Staggers (D-WV), who chaired the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Although it is traditional for laws to be known by the names of their sponsors, this is believed to be the first (but not last) case in which the sponsor's name was officially incorporated into the text of a Federal statute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act | ||
| Buy Indian Act | Description | Buy Indian Act | NO short title | 25 USC 47 | ch 431, section 23, 36 Stat 861 | Y | statutized by PL 103-435, 108 Stat 4566 (1994) with parenthetical "commonly referred to as the 'Buy Indian Act'" | |||||
| Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008 | Victim | Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008 | "Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008" | Named for daughter of Rep. Deborah Pryce (sponsor) who died from neuroblastoma at age 9 in 1999. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-285 | 122 Stat 2628 | Y |
http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/ncicancerbulletin/archive/2008/072208/page6 |
NOTE - name changed in committee, guessing it was someone other than price who made the change | ||
| MD-CARE Act | Acrostic | MD-CARE Act | "Muscular Dystrophy Community Assitance, Research and Education Amendments of 2001" or "MD-CARE Act" | 42 USC 201 | 107-84 | 115 Stat 823 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| ENHANCED Act of 2009 | Acrostic | ENHANCED Act of 2009 | "Establishing a Network of Health-Advancing National Centers of Excellence for Depression Act of 2009" or "ENHANCED Act of 2009" | 42 USC 290bb-38 | 111-148, title X, section 10410 | 124 Stat 984 | Y | short title at beginning of S 10410 | ||||
| Pam White Wilderness Act of 2006 | Honor | Pam White Wilderness Act of 2006 | "Pam White Wilderness Act of 2006" | Pamela White was an advocate for wilderness preservation in Nevada, killed in a car crash in 2005. | 109-432, div C, title III, subtitle B (section 321) | 120 Stat 3030 | Y |
http://www.nevadawilderness.org/items/newsletter_06Autumn.pdf; CR S10971, Oct. 4, 2005. |
short title; deals with a number of wilderness areas but none of them are named for Pam White -- think that may just be an honorific attached to the bill | |||
| Lanham Act (aka the Trademark Act of 1946) | Sponsor | Lanham Act (aka the Trademark Act of 1946) | NO short title | Rep. Fritz Garland Lanham (D-TX) | 15 USC 1051 (note) | ch. 540, 60 Stat 427 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000076 |
statutized by 98 Stat 3335 | |||
| Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 | Acrostic | Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 | "Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989" | 22 USC 5401 | 101-179 | 103 Stat 1298 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act | Institution | Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act | "Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act" | Name "Dandini Research Park" pre-existed statute. | 109-69 | 119 Stat 2007 | Y |
S.Rpt.109-38 |
short title | |||
| Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 | Sponsor | Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 | "Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980" | Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-IL) and Rep. John Wydler (R-NY), who retired in 1980. | 15 USC 3701 (note) | 96-480 | 94 Stat 2311 | Y |
Stevenson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000890; Wydler - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000780 |
enacting clause; starts at section 2 |