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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| Petrillo Bill | Case | Petrillo Bill | "Communications Act of 1934" | Defendant James Petrillo in U.S. v. Petrillo (332 U.S. 1, 1947), who was prosecuted for violation of a provision of the Communications Act of 1934. Petrillo was the head of the American Federation of Musicians. | 47 USC 609 | ch 652, 48 Stat 1064 | N | "Petrillo" not statutized; short title at end - "Communications Act of 1934" (creating FCC); Although the two acts are cross-referenced in the PNT, the "Petrillo Bill" was actually an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934, adopted on April 16, 1946. See American Newspaper Publishers Ass'n v. NLRB (345 U.S. 100) (1953). | ||||
| Dill-Rayburn Communications Act | Sponsor | Dill-Rayburn Communications Act | "Communications Act of 1934" | Sen. Clarence Cleveland Dill, (D-WA); Rep. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, (D-TX) | 47 USC 609 | ch 652, 48 Stat 1064 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000345; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000082 |
"Dill-Rayburn" not statutized; short title at end - "Communications Act of 1934" (creating FCC) | |||
| Johnson Fish Restoration Act (see Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act) | Sponsor | Johnson Fish Restoration Act (see Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act) | NO short title | Rep. John Dingell (Sr.)(MI) and Sen. Edwin Johnson (CO) | 16 USC 777 | ch 658, 64 Stat 430 | Y |
Dingell - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000354; Johnson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000127; http://www.dcnr.state.al.us/research-mgmt/sport-fish.cfm |
statutized as "Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act" by S. 101(c ) of 114 Stat 1762 | |||
| Gold Star Mothers Act | Sponsor | Gold Star Mothers Act | NO short title | ch 659, 50 Stat 660 | X | nothing in statute | ||||||
| Rankin Act (see Gold Star Mothers Act) | Sponsor | Rankin Act (see Gold Star Mothers Act) | NO short title | Rep. John Rankin (D-MS) | ch 659, 50 Stat 660 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000056 |
nothing in statute - content is about providing for widows of WWI vets | ||||
| Fitzgerald Act (Apprentice Labor) (see National Apprenticeship Act) | Sponsor | Fitzgerald Act (Apprentice Labor) (see National Apprenticeship Act) | NO short title | Rep. William Joseph Fitzgerald, (D-CT) | 29 USC 50 | ch 663, 50 Stat 664 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000169 |
name not statutized | |||
| Jones-White Act (see Merchant Marine Act, 1928) | Sponsor | Jones-White Act (see Merchant Marine Act, 1928) | "Merchant Marine Act, 1928" | Sen. Wesley L. Jones (R-WA); Rep. Wallace H. White (R-ME) | ch 675, 45 Stat 689 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000257 |
short title at end - "Merchant Marine Act, 1928" | ||||
| Copeland Pure Food and Drugs Act (see Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) | Sponsor | Copeland Pure Food and Drugs Act (see Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) | "Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland, 1923-38, (D-NY), | 21 USC 301 | ch 675, 52 Stat 1040 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
short title - Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; Copeland never statutized | |||
| 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 |