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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 | Award | Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 | "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968" | President Woodrow Wilson | 20 USC 80e (note) | 90-637 | 82 Stat 1356 | Y |
Legislation text |
long title and short title; | ||
| New Communities Act of 1968 | Description | New Communities Act of 1968 | "New Communities Act of 1968" | 42 USC 3901 | 90-448, title IV | 82 Stat 513 | N | short title at beginning of title IV - guarantees for financing new community land development | ||||
| Williams Act | Sponsor | Williams Act | NO short title | Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ) | 90-439 | 82 Stat 454 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000502 |
nothing in statute; amending SEC Act | |||
| Mrs. Murphy (Civil Rights Act) Exemption | Undefined | Mrs. Murphy (Civil Rights Act) Exemption | NO short title | Mrs. Murphy was not a real person, but a hypothetical small boarding house owner, who would be exempted from the requirements of the Civil Rights Act. The hypothetical character was created by Republican Senator George Aiken of Vermont and the name caught on. | 42 USC 3603(b)(2) | 90-284, title VIII, section 803(b)(2) | 82 Stat 82 | N |
James D. Walsh, Reaching Mrs. Murphy: A Call for Repeal of the Mrs. Murphy Exemption to the Fair Housing Act, 34 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 605 (1999) at n. 3. |
name not statutized | ||
| Sisk Act | Sponsor | Sisk Act | NO short title | Rep. Bernice Sisk (D-CA) (male) | 16 USC 484a (note) | 90-171 | 81 Stat 531 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000454 |
"Sisk Act" statutized in definitions section 2(a)(11) of 120 Stat 1218; though also mentioned in as "commonly known as Sisk Act" in S.340 of 111 Stat 1603 | ||
| Food for Peace Act of 1966 | Political Description | Food for Peace Act of 1966 | "Food for Peace Act of 1966" | 7 USC 1691 | 89-808 | 80 Stat 1526 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; amending Argicultural Trade Development and Assistance Act | ||||
| Bartlett Act (Twelve Mile Fishery Jurisdiction) | Sponsor | Bartlett Act (Twelve Mile Fishery Jurisdiction) | NO short title | Sen. Edward Lewis Bartlett, (D-Alask) | 16 USC 1091 | 89-658 | 80 Stat 908 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000201 |
name not statutized; also not in USC or repealing legislation (PL 94-265) | ||
| 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. | ||
| George Rogers Clark National Historical Park Act | Location | George Rogers Clark National Historical Park Act | NO short title | Revolutionary War Col. George Rogers Clark (Indiana) | 16 USC 291 | 89-517 | 80 Stat 325 | Y | no short title, but statutory title explains that the act is accepting a statue of George Rogers Clark fore the creation of a National Historical Park | |||
| Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act | Victim | Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act | NO short title; section titleg is "Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics" | Jeanne Cleary was a 19-year-old freshman at Lehigh University who was raped and murdered in her residence hall in 1986. | 20 USC 1092(f)(18) | 89-329, title IV, section 485(f)/101-542, title II, section 204(a) | 104 Stat 2385 | N | no short title, section title is "Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics" (no mention of name); "jeanne cleary" not statutized |