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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (see Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) | Sponsor | Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (see Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) | "Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985" | Sen. William Philip Gramm, (R-TX); Sen. Warren Bruce Rudman, (R-NH); Sen. Ernest Frederick Hollings, (D-SC) | 2 USC 900 | 99-177, title II | 99 Stat 1038 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000365; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000497; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000725 |
"Gramm-Rudman-Hollings" not statutized | ||
| Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act | Sponsor | Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act | "Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act" | Sen. John Bankhead (D-AL) and Rep. John Jones (D-TX) | 7 USC 1000 | 50 Stat 522 | Y |
Bankhead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000110; Jones - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236 |
short title in unnumbered section 1 | |||
| Banking Act of 1933 | Description | Banking Act of 1933 | "Banking Act of 1933" | 12 USC 227 | Ch. 89, 48 Stat 162 | |||||||
| Glass-Steagall Act, 1933 (see Banking Act of 1933) | Sponsor | Glass-Steagall Act, 1933 (see Banking Act of 1933) | "Banking Act of 1933" | Sen. Carter Glass (D-VA) and Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D-AL) | 12 USC 227 | ch 89, 48 Stat 162 | Y |
Glass - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000232; Steagall - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000820 |
short title at beginning; Statutized by 94 Stat 188, but note in code (at at 12 USC 93a) indicates that the Glass-Steagall Act referred to in text is "probably" the 1933 act not the 1932 act | |||
| Banking Act of 1935 | Description | Banking Act of 1935 | "Banking Act of 1935" | 12 USC 228 | Ch. 614, 49 Stat 684 | |||||||
| Betty Dick Residence Protection Act | Private Law | Betty Dick Residence Protection Act | "Betty Dick Residence Protection Act" | Betty Dick, 83-year-old woman residing in a cabin within Rocky Mountain National Park. The bill granted her a life estate. | Private Law 109-1 | 120 Stat 3705 | Y |
S.Rpt.109-146 |
short title; - noted here because the private laws are generally not included in the Popular Name Table -- wonder why this one is | |||
| Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act | Honor | Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act | "Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) who worked to have the legislation making the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act have the full force of law passed during the 104th Congress, but who died on June 22, 1996. The bill was amended to be named to honor Emerson. | 42 USC 1791 (a) | 89-642 (formerly 101-610) | 104 Stat 3183 | Y |
H.Rpt. 104-661; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000174 |
PL 89-642 was the "Child Nutrition Act of 1966," which seems to have been amended by PL 101-610, the "Good Samaritan Food Donation Act," which was meant as a model act and had no force of law. PL 104-210 (110 Stat 3011) renamed the Good Samaritan act the "Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act" and gave it the full force of law. | ||
| Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998 | Honor | Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998 | "Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) died in 1996. | 17 USC 1691 | 105-385 (Title II, subtitle B) | 112 Stat 3465 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000174 |
short title; Named for Emerson in Short Title and also as name of Subtitle B | ||
| Guffey-Snyder Coal Act (see Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935) | Sponsor | Guffey-Snyder Coal Act (see Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935) | "Bituminous Ccoal Conservation Act of 1935" | Sen. Joseph E. Guffey, (D-PA); Rep. John Buell Snyder, (D-PA) | 15 USC 801 | ch 824, 49 Stat 991 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000519; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000668 |
"Guffey-Snyder" not statutized; short title at end (section 23) | |||
| Guffey-Vinson Act (see Bituminous Coal Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Guffey-Vinson Act (see Bituminous Coal Act of 1937) | "Bituminous Coal Act of 1937" | Sen. Joseph E. Guffey, (D-PA); Rep. Frederick Moore Vinson (D-KY) | 15 USC 828 | ch 127, 50 Stat 72 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000519; http://eris.uky.edu/catalog/xt7msb3wtd0h/guide (for why this Vinson - there are two); http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000106 |
"Guffey-Vinson" not statutized; short title at end (section 21) - "Bituminous Coal Act of 1937" |