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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act | Institution | Crawford National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act | "Crawford National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act" | Fish hatchery previously named "Crawford" | 104-215 | 110 Stat 3018 | N | short title - fish hatchery was already named Crawford | ||||
| Hump Law | Description | Hump Law | NO short title | The "hump" was the colloquial term used for the large group of officers commissioned during WWII. The law provides for a path to promotion by expanding the ranks of higher officers. | 86-155 | 73 Stat 333 | N |
105 Cong. Rec. 3227 (Mar. 4, 1959), Statement of Rep. Thornburry (PA). |
don't see anything helplful in statute, but law deals with Navy so maybe "Hump" is a naval term? | |||
| Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 | Description | Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 | "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002" | Adds "born-alive infant" to defintion of "person" in 1 USC 1 | 1 USC 1 note | 107-207 | 116 Stat 926 | N |
Text of legislation |
short title at beginning of statute | ||
| Raker Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | Sponsor | Raker Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | NO short title | Rep. John Edward Raker, (D-CA) | 43 USC 511 | ch 190, 42 Stat 541 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000019 |
name not statutized | |||
| Lanham Public War Housing Act | Sponsor | Lanham Public War Housing Act | NO short title | Rep. Fritz Garland Lanham, (D-TX) | 42 USC 1501 (note) | ch. 862, 54 Stat 1125 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000076 |
name not statutized | |||
| Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Act of 1992 | Political Description | Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Act of 1992 | "Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Act of 1992" | 42 USC 12705a | 102-550, title XII | 106 Stat 3938 | N | short title at beginning of title XII | ||||
| TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007 | Description | TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007 | "TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007" | 42 USC 1305 | 110-90 | 121 Stat 984 | N | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Edge Act (see Mineral Leasing Act) | Sponsor | Edge Act (see Mineral Leasing Act) | NO short title | Sen. Walter Evans Edge, (R-NJ) | 30 USC 181 | ch 85, 41 Stat 437 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000044 |
"Mineral Leasing Act" referenced in 74 Stat 781 | |||
| Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility Transfer Act | Location | Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility Transfer Act | "Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility Transfer Act" | Newlands Project, NV | 109-265 | 120 Stat 668 | N | short title; Newlands Project previously named | ||||
| 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? |