
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.
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.
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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 |
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Sherman Act | Sponsor | Sherman Act | NO short title | Sen. John Sherman (OH) | 15 USC 1 (note) | ch 647, 26 Stat 209 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000346; http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=51 |
"Sherman Act" added as a short title - Pub. L. 94-435, title III, Sec. 305(a), Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1397, added immediately following the enacting clause of act July 2, 1890, the following: ��_��__��_��__��_��__That this Act [this section and sections 2 to 7 of this title] may be cited as the ��_��__��_��__��_��__Sherman Act��_��__��_.��_��__��_ -- but name was statutized as Sherman Antitrust Act by 69 Stat 282 | |||
Smith-Lever Act | Sponsor | Smith-Lever Act | NO short title | Sen. Hoke Smith (D-GA) and Rep. Asbury Lever (D-SC) | 7 USC 341 (note) | ch 79, 38 Stat 372 | Y |
Smith-Lever Act, Green 'N' Growing: The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/greenngrowing/essay_smith_lev... http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/camp.html; Lever - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000259; Smith - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000551 |
amended to include "Smith-Lever Act" as short title by 112 Stat 525 | |||
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 | ||||
Aldrich Act (Currency) | Sponsor | Aldrich Act (Currency) | NO short title | Sen. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, (R-R.I) | 12 USCA 178 (repealed) | 34 Stat 1289 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000083 |
Repealed by PL 103-325, 108 Stat 2293 - popular name not mentioned in repeal | |||
Smoot-Hawley Act (see Tariff Act of 1930) | Sponsor | Smoot-Hawley Act (see Tariff Act of 1930) | "Tariff Act of 1930" | Sen. Reed Smoot, 1903-1933, (R-UT); Rep. Willis Chatman Hawley, (R-OR) | 19 USC 1654 (short title) | ch 497, 46 Stat 590 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000644; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000379 |
"Smoot-Hawley" never statutized; short title at end - "Tariff Act of 1930" | |||
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 | ||||
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 | |||
Sheppard Air Corps Cadet Act (see Army Aviation Cadet Act) | Sponsor | Sheppard Air Corps Cadet Act (see Army Aviation Cadet Act) | "Army Aviation Cadet Act" | Sen. Morris Sheppard (D-TX), Chairman of Committee on Military Affairs until his death on April 9, 1941 | ch 165, 55 Stat 239 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337 |
short title at end - "Army Aviation Cadet Act" | ||||
Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 | Sponsor | Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 | "Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004" | Sen. James Bunning (KY), Rep. Douglas Bereuter (NE), Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR) | 42 USC 4001 | 108-264 | 118 Stat 712 | Y |
Bunning - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001066; Bereuter - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000403; Blumenauer - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000574; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_Insurance_Reform_Act_of_2004 |
name written as short title | ||
Capper-Volstead Act (See Co-operative Marketing Assocations Act) | Sponsor | Capper-Volstead Act (See Co-operative Marketing Assocations Act) | NO short title | Sen. Arthur Capper (R-KS) and Rep. Andrew Volstead (R-MN) | 7 USC 291, 292 | ch 57, 42 Stat 388 | Y |
Capper - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000133; Volstead - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000114; http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/info/capper.html |
"Capper-Volstead" statutized by reference in 94 Stat 374 (1980 amendment to 7 USC 292) |