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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boggs Act | Sponsor | Boggs Act | NO short title | Rep. Thomas Hale Boggs (D-LA) | 21 USC 174 | ch. 666, 65 Stat 767 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000594 |
name not statutized, repealed | |||
| President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1994 | Description | President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1994 | "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1994" | 44 USC 2107 (note) | 103-345 | 108 Stat 3128 | N | short title and named in long title | ||||
| Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006 | Acrostic | Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006 | "Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006" | 42 USC 5121 | 109-308 | 120 Stat 1725 | Y | short title at beginning of statute, but no sign of the obvious acronym | ||||
| June Act (Pensions) | Undefined | June Act (Pensions) | NO short title | Likely named for the month in which it was passed -- June. | ch 634, 26 stat 182 | N | nothing in statute -- passed in June? | |||||
| Buy Indian Act | Description | Buy Indian Act | NO short title | 25 USC 47 | ch 431, section 23, 36 Stat 861 | Y | statutized by PL 103-435, 108 Stat 4566 (1994) with parenthetical "commonly referred to as the 'Buy Indian Act'" | |||||
| McSweeney-McNary Act (see Forest Products Act) | Sponsor | McSweeney-McNary Act (see Forest Products Act) | NO short title | Rep. John McSweeney (D-OH) and Sen. Charles McNary (R-OR) | 16 USC 581 | 45 Stat 699 | Y |
McSweeney - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000606; McNary - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000583 |
statutized by reference in repeal through 92 Stat 356 | |||
| D'Alesandro Repatriation Act | Sponsor | D'Alesandro Repatriation Act | NO short title | Rep. Thomas D'Alesandro (D-MD) | ch. 509, 54 Stat 715 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000007 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| McKinney Act (see McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) | Sponsor | McKinney Act (see McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) | "Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act" | Rep. Stewart McKinney, (R-CT); Rep. Bruce Vento, (D-Farmour-Labour-MN) | 42 USC 11301 (note) | 100-77 | 101 Stat 482 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000087 |
referred to as "McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act" in 115 Stat 1425 (2002); (also referenced as "McKinney-Vento" throughout 118 Stat 3 | ||
| Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002 | Honor | Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002 | "Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002" | Rep. Gerald B. H. Solomon (NY) who died in 2001. | 22 USC 1928 (note) | 107-187 | 116 Stat 590 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000675 |
short title naming bill for Solomon added in Committee | ||
| Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act | Honor/Victim | Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act | "Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act" | Samuel Hicks was a Special Agent with the FBI, killed on duty in 2008. | 5 USC 101 (note) | 111-178 | 124 Stat 1262 | Y | short title; PA FBI agent killed in 2008 |