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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berry Amendment | Sponsor | Berry Amendment | NO short title | Likely named for Rep. Marion Berry (AR) who was in office when the provision was made permanent. There was no one named Berry serving in Congress when the first provision was included in the Defense Approprations Act in 1941. | 10 U.S.C. 2533a | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000420; http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/cpic/ic/berry_amendment_faq.html |
Originally passed by Congress in 1941 as a part of the defense appropriation, and included in subsequent defense appropriations acts. It was made permanent in Fiscal Year 1994 by section 8005 of PL 103-139 and subsequently codified as 10 U.S.C. 2533a in 2002 by section 832 of PL 107-107. ; "Berry" statutized in title of Section 827, 117 Stat 1392. | ||||
| 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 | Honor | Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act | "Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) died in 1996. | 7 USC 1736f-1 | 96-494 (Title III) | 94 Stat 2578 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000174 |
law amended to change short title to "Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act" by 112 Stat 3466 (1998) ("Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act of 1998") | ||
| 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 | ||
| Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows and Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program Act of 2008 | Honor | Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows and Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program Act of 2008 | "Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2002" | Rep. Bill Emerson (MO) and Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland (TX) served together in the House and were friends who worked across the aisle on hunger and poverty issues. | 2 USC 1161 | 107-171 (Section 4404) | 116 Stat 335 | Y |
116 Stat 335, PL 101-171, Section 4404 |
Original statute passed in 2002 as "Congressional Hunger Fellows Act of 2002", which named fellowship for Emerson and Leland and included info about them in the statute's findings. The 2008 Act (122 Stat 1132) amended the program and also statutized the names in the short title. | ||
| Black-Connery Fair Labor Standards Act (see Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Black-Connery Fair Labor Standards Act (see Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938) | "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938" | Sen. Hugo Lafayette Black (Future justice); (D-AL); Rep. William Patrick Connery, Jr., 1923-37, (D-MA). | 29 USC 201 | S2475 | ch 676, 52 Stat 1060 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000499; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000694; see also http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm |
ST at beginning; "Black-Connery" not statutized | ||
| Black-McKellar Act | Sponsor | Black-McKellar Act | NO short title | Sen. Hugo Black (D-AL); Sen. Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) | ch. 466, 48 Stat 933 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000499; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000499 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Bland Change of Masters Act | Sponsor | Bland Change of Masters Act | NO short title | Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland (D-VA) | ch. 159, 53 Stat 794 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000545 |
no name in statute | ||||
| Bland Merchant Marine Act | Sponsor | Bland Merchant Marine Act | NO short title | Rep. Schuyler Otis Bland (D-VA) | ch. 417, 53 Stat 1182 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000545 |
no name in statute, amending the Merchant Marine Act |