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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underwood Tariff Act | Sponsor | Underwood Tariff Act | NO short title | Rep Oscar Wilder Underwood, (D-AL) | ch 16, 38 Stat 114 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=U000013 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Clason Naturalization Act | Sponsor | Clason Naturalization Act | NO short title | Rep. Charles Clason (R-MA) | ch. 512, 54 Stat 715 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000473 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Johnson-O'Malley Act | Sponsor | Johnson-O'Malley Act | NO short title | Rep. Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D-WI); Sen. Hiram Warren Johnson (R-CA) | 25 USC 452 (note) | ch. 147, 48 Stat 596 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000087; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000140 |
name not statutized | |||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Uniform Sales Act" | Ch. 43, 50 Stat 29 | ||||||||
| Legislative Pay Act of 1929 | Description | Legislative Pay Act of 1929 | "Legislative Pay Act of 1929" | Ch. 33, 46 Stat 32 | ||||||||
| Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (renamed McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) | Honor | Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (renamed McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) | "Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act" | Rep. Stewart B. McKinney (CT), died May 7, 1987. | 42 USC 11301 | 100-77 | 101 Stat 482 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527 |
McKinney was the principal author of the Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act, which was renamed for him in 1987. http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/spec/ead/ms2154.xml | ||
| No FEAR Act | Acrostic | No FEAR Act | "Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act 2002" | 5 USC 2301 | 107-174 | 116 stat 566 | Y | short title at beginning of statute -- acronym not included | ||||
| Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act of 2009 | Honor | Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act of 2009 | "Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act of 2009" | named for reporter Daniel Pearl killed in Pakistan | 22 USC 2151 (note) | 111-166 | 124 Stat 1186 | Y |
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/18press.html?pagewanted=print |
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| Tariff Act of 1922 | Description | Tariff Act of 1922 | "Tariff Act of 1922" | Ch. 356, 42 Stat 858 | ||||||||
| Celler-Hennings Act of 1958 | Sponsor | Celler-Hennings Act of 1958 | NO short title | Rep. Emanuel Celler, (D-NY); Sen. Thomas Carey Hennings, Jr., (D-MO). | 28 USC 334 | 85-752 | 72 Stat 845 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000264; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000502 |
name not statutized |