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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doughton Unemployment Compensation Act | Sponsor | Doughton Unemployment Compensation Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Doughton (D-NC) | ch. 73, 53 Stat 581 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000448 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Durham-Humphrey Drug Prescriptions Act (see Humphrey-Durham Drug Prescriptions Act) | Sponsor | Durham-Humphrey Drug Prescriptions Act (see Humphrey-Durham Drug Prescriptions Act) | NO short title | Rep. Carl Durham (D-NC); Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) | ch 578, 65 Stat 648 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000571; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| McKinley Act (Tariff) | Sponsor | McKinley Act (Tariff) | NO short title | Rep. William McKinley (R - OH) | ch 1244, 26 Stat 567 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000522 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Sheppard-Towner Act (Maternity Hygiene) (see Maternity Act) | Sponsor | Sheppard-Towner Act (Maternity Hygiene) (see Maternity Act) | NO short title | Sen. Morris Sheppard, (D-TX); Rep. Horace Mann Towner, Ill, 1911-1923 (R-IA) | ch 135, 42 Stat 224 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000325 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| La Follete Act (Seamen) (See Seamen's Act) | Sponsor | La Follete Act (Seamen) (See Seamen's Act) | NO short title | Sen. Robert Marion La Follette, (R-WI) | ch 153, 38 Stat 1164 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000004 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Ball Act | Sponsor | Ball Act | NO short title | Sen. Lewis Heisler Ball, (R-DE) | ch 80, title II, 41 Stat 298 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000100 |
(Rents in the District of Columbia) | ||||
| Rankin Veterans Act | Sponsor | Rankin Veterans Act | NO short title | Rep. John Rankin (D-MS) | ch 109, 53 Stat 652 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000056 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| McFadden-Pepper Act (see McFadden Act (Branch Banks)) | Sponsor | McFadden-Pepper Act (see McFadden Act (Branch Banks)) | NO short title | Rep. Louis Thomas McFadden (R-PA); Sen. George W. Pepper (R-PA) | ch 191, 44 Stat 1224 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000434; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000219 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Wilmot Proviso (Slavery in Territories) | Sponsor | Wilmot Proviso (Slavery in Territories) | NO short title | Sen. David Wilmot (R-PA) | ch 111, 12 Stat 432 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000566 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Humphrey Durham Act (See Humphrey-Durham Drug Prescriptions Act) | Sponsor | Humphrey Durham Act (See Humphrey-Durham Drug Prescriptions Act) | NO short title | Rep. Carl Durham (D-NC); Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) | ch 578, 65 Stat 648 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000571; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953 |
nothing in statute |