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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley Temple Act (Child Labor) | Honor | Shirley Temple Act (Child Labor) | NO short title | Child actress Shirley Temple (later Shirley Temple Black) | 29 USC 213 (c ) | ch 676, section 13 (c ), 52 Stat 1068 | N |
Comment, Teenage Employment Emancipation and the Law, 9 U.PA. Journal of Labor and Employment Law 389, http://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jbl/articles/volume9/issue2/Ang9U.Pa.J... |
nothing in statute; exemption from prohibition on child labor for kids in agriculture not required to attend school and kids in motion pictures; name not statutized | |||
| Pam Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act of 1996 | Honor | Pam Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act of 1996 | "Pam Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act of 1996" | Pam Lychner was a victim's rights advocate who was killed in the TWA crash. | 42 USC 13701 (note) | 104-236 | 110 Stat 3093 | Y |
CR S8778, July 25, 1996, Statement of Sen. Phil Gramm. |
short title | ||
| Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act | Honor | Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act | "Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act" | Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink (HI) who died on Sept. 28, 2002. | 20 USC 1681 (note) | 107-255 | 116 Stat 1734 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000797 |
joint resolution renaming title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for Patsy Takemoto Mink, whereas clauses about her | ||
| Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act | Honor | Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act | "Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act" | Harriet Tubman, "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. | 106-516 | 114 Stat 2404 | Y | short title; directing resources to study the possible creation of a national historic site associated with Harriet Tubman | ||||
| Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991 | Honor | Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991 | "North/South Center Act of 1991" | Rep. Dante B. Fascell (FL) | 22 USC 2075(a) | 102-138, title II, Section 208 | 105 Stat 694 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000041 |
1991 act created "North/South Center" but "Dante B. Fascell" was statutized by 113 Stat 54 (in 1996), which both named the Center for Fascell and amended the earlier act to change the short title | ||
| John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Act | Honor | John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Act | "John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Act" | Sen. John Chafee (RI) who died on October 24, 1999. Introduced after Chafee's death, though Congressional record indicates he worked on the law. | 16 USC 3501 | 106-167 | 113 Stat 1803 | Y |
CR S14005-14007, Nov. 4, 1999. |
statutory title -- law is specifically to redesignate the Coastal Barrier Resources System in John Chafee's name | ||
| W. J. (Billy) Tauzin Satellite Television Act of 2004 (aka Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004) | Honor | W. J. (Billy) Tauzin Satellite Television Act of 2004 (aka Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004) | "W. J. (Billy) Tauzin Satellite Television Act of 2004 (aka Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004)" | Rep. Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin (LA), chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (which shared jurisdiction for satellite home viewer authorizations with Judiciary), who retired in 2004. | 17 USC 101 (note) | 108-447, div J, title IX | 118 Stat 3393 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000058 |
short title actually as "W.J. (Billy) ��_��__��_��___" | ||
| Claiborne Pell Institute for International Relations and Public Policy Act | Honor | Claiborne Pell Institute for International Relations and Public Policy Act | "Claiborne Pell Institute for International Relations and Public Policy Act" | grant to establish and maintain a center at Salve University named for Sen. Claiborne Pell (RI) | 104-319, title III | 110 Stat 3867 | Y | title of Title III and short title | ||||
| Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act | Honor | Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act | "Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act" | Christopher Reeve, actor best known for playing Superman, and his wife Dana, who became advocates for people living with paralysis and spinal cord injuries after Reeve became paralyzed as a result of an accident. | short title see 42 USC 201 (note) | 111-11, title XIV | 123 Stat 1452 | Y |
http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?b=4455033&... |
short title | ||
| Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 | Honor | Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 | "Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Improvement Act of 1987" | Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldridge, killed in a rodeo accident in July 1987. | 15 USC 3701 (note) | 100-107 | 101 Stat 724 | Y | long title is amending Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1990 to establish an award named for Malcom Baldridge |