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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacey Act (Game) | Sponsor | Lacey Act (Game) | NO short title | Rep. John F. Lacey (R-IA), introduced bill | 16 USC 3371 | ch. 553, 31 Stat 187 | Y |
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2000/2000-98.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000010 |
Name statutized through Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, 95 Stat 1073; conservation act | |||
| Tydings Amendment | Sponsor | Tydings Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Millard Tydings (D-MD) | ch 638, 56 Stat 1018 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000446 |
nothing in statute; selective service | ||||
| Camp W. G. Williams Land Exchange Act of 1989 | Location | Camp W. G. Williams Land Exchange Act of 1989 | At Title IX - "Camp W. G. Williams Land Exchange Act of 1989" | Army National Guard camp named for Brigadier Gen. W. G. Williams | 101-628 (title IX) | 104 Stat 4499 | Y | short title at Title IX; name of camp | ||||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Securities Act of 1933 | Description | Securities Act of 1933 | "Securities Act of 1933" | 15 USC 77a | Ch. 38, 48 Stat 74 | |||||||
| Liqor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act | Description | Liqor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act | "Liqor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act" | 27 USC 122 | Ch. 740, 49 Stat 872 | |||||||
| 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 | ||||
| Saulsbury Resolution (District of Columbia Rents) | Sponsor | Saulsbury Resolution (District of Columbia Rents) | NO short title | Sen. Willard Saulsbury, Jr., (D-DE) | ch 90, 40 Stat 593 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000073 |
nothing in statute |