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 |
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Dollinger Act (Food and Drugs) | Sponsor | Dollinger Act (Food and Drugs) | NO short title | Rep. Isidore Dollinger (D-NY) | 85-250 | 71 Stat 567 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000402 |
nothing in statute | |||
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | Sponsor | Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | "Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006" | Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (WA) and Sen. Ted Stevens (AK) | 16 USC 1801 (note) | 109-479 | 120 Stat 3575 | Y |
Magnuson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000053; Stevens - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000888 |
The House version was named for Stevens-Inouye, but the Senate version was Magnuson-Stevens. The law had previously been statutized only with Magnuson's name, not Stevens's. | ||
Second Morrill Act (aka Agricultural College Act of 1890) | Sponsor | Second Morrill Act (aka Agricultural College Act of 1890) | NO short title | Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT), though really named for the "First Morrill Act." The Second Morrill Act provided additional endowments for land-grant universities, but prohibited money to states that discriminated based on race in admission. | 7 USC 321 (note) | ch 841, 26 Stat 417 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000969; http://ext.wvu.edu/about_extension/land_grant_system |
"Second Morrill Act" statutized by reference at 94 Stat 1502 | |||
Jones-McCormack Act (Saturday Half Holidays) | Sponsor | Jones-McCormack Act (Saturday Half Holidays) | NO short title | Rep. John McCormack (D-MA); Most likely Sen. Wesley L. Jones (R-WA) | ch. 396, 46 Stat 1482 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000364; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000257 |
Hard to tell whether the sponsor is Sen. Wesley Jones or Rep. John Jones, because the entry in the Cong. Rec. index for the bill has a typo and does not give the correct page for the Senate introduction of the measure. However, Rep. Jones did not participate in the House debate, and Sen. Jones chaired the Appropriations Committee at the time, so it seems more likely that he was the sponsor for whom the bill is named. | ||||
McDuffie-Tydings Act of 1934 (see Philippine Independence Act) | Sponsor | McDuffie-Tydings Act of 1934 (see Philippine Independence Act) | NO short title | Rep. John McDuffie (D-AL); Sen. Millard E. Tydings (D-MD) | ch 84, 48 Stat 456 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000427; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000446 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Gwynne Act | Sponsor | Gwynne Act | "Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947" | Rep. John Williams Gwynne, (R-IA) | ch. 52, 61 Stat 84 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000543 |
nothing in statute; but full title refers to Walsh-Healey Act and Bacon-Davis Act | ||||
Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 | Sponsor | Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 | "Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976" | Sen. Philip Hart (D-MI), Sen. Hugh Scott, Jr. (R-PA), and Rep. Peter Rodino (D-NJ). Rodino was Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Hart was Chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee on Senate Judiciary, and Scott retired in 1976. In an interview for the Senate Historical Office Oral History Project, former Senate Judiciary Counsel Chuck Ludlam claimed that Rodino in fact "hated" the bill but settled for getting it through his committee, which was more liberal than he was, in exchange for having his name attached to the legislation. | 15 USC 1 (note) | 94-435 | 90 Stat 1383 | Y |
Hart - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000291; Scott - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000174; Rodino - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000374; http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Ludlam_Intervi... |
Final section of this act statutized the short titles of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the Webb-Pomerene Act, and the Wilson Tariff Act. | ||
Erdman Act of 1898 | Sponsor | Erdman Act of 1898 | NO short title | Rep. Constantine Jacob Erdman (D-PA) | ch 370, 30 Stat 424 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000199 |
Although Erdman was not in the House when the bil was finally signed into law, he had worked on previous versions which had passed the House in earlier Congresses. (See, eg, The House Devotes a Day to Labor Legislation, NY Times, Feb. 26, 1895) | ||||
Fordney-McCumber Act (see Tariff Act of 1922) | Sponsor | Fordney-McCumber Act (see Tariff Act of 1922) | "Tariff Act of 1922" | Rep. Joseph Warren Fordney, (R-MI); Sen. Porter James McCumber (R-N.D.) | ch 356, 42 Stat 858 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000271; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000397 |
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Adamson Law (Eight Hour Day) | Sponsor | Adamson Law (Eight Hour Day) | NO short title | Rep. William C. Adamson (D-GA_ | 45 USC 65 et seq | 39 Stat 721 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000051 |
name not statutized; |