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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Export Apple Act | Description | Export Apple Act | NO short title | 7 USC 581 | ch 59, 48 Stat 123 | Y | amended to include short title as "Export Apple Act" by 113 Stat 1321 (1999); cross-listed as "Export Apple and Pear Act", promiting the export of apples and pears | |||||
| Roberts Act | Sponsor | Roberts Act | NO short title | Most likely Rep. Kenneth Roberts (D-AL) (Chairman of the Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission, 1965-1972) | 88-515 | 78 Stat 696 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000314 |
nothing in statute; safety standards for passenger vehicles purchased by fed govt | |||
| Volstead Act (see National Prohibition Act) | Sponsor | Volstead Act (see National Prohibition Act) | "National Prohibition Act" | Rep. Andrew John Volstead, (R-MN) | ch 85, 41 Stat 305 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000114 |
short title at beginning - "National Prohibition Act"; references "War Prohibition Act" to mean any provision of a previoulsy enacted that prohibited alcohol during WWI | ||||
| Myers Patent Act | Sponsor | Myers Patent Act | NO short title | Rep. Francis John Myers (D-PA) | ch 452, 53 Stat 1213 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001127 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Evarts Act (Circuit Courts of Appeals) (see Circuit Court of Appeals Act) | Sponsor | Evarts Act (Circuit Courts of Appeals) (see Circuit Court of Appeals Act) | NO short title | Sen. William Evarts (R-NY) | ch 517, 26 Stat 826 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000262 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Borland Amendment | Sponsor | Borland Amendment | NO short title | Rep. William Patterson Borland, (D-MO) | ch 191, 38 Stat 524 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000643 |
no name in statute | ||||
| Van Zandt Patent Act | Sponsor | Van Zandt Patent Act | NO short title | Rep. James Van Zandt (R-PA) | ch 568, 53 Stat 1264 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000069 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Copeland Anti-Racketeering Act (see Anti-Racketeering Act) | Sponsor | Copeland Anti-Racketeering Act (see Anti-Racketeering Act) | NO short title | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland (D-NY) | ch 569, 48 Stat 979 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Esch Car Service Act | Sponsor | Esch Car Service Act | NO short title | Rep. John Jacob Esch, (R-WI) | ch. 23, 40 Stat 101 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000212 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| May Army Officer Strength Act | Sponsor | May Army Officer Strength Act | NO short title | Rep. Andrew Jackson May (D-KY) | ch 146, 52 Stat 216 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000272 |
nothing in statute |