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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fact Finders' Act | Sponsor | Fact Finders' Act | "Second Deficiency Act, Fiscal Year 1924" | 43 USC 371 | ch 4, section 4, 43 Stat 701 | N | "Fact Finders' Act" not listed anywhere, but indicated in USC short title note; name not statutized | |||||
| Copeland Pure Food and Drugs Act (see Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) | Sponsor | Copeland Pure Food and Drugs Act (see Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) | "Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland, 1923-38, (D-NY), | 21 USC 301 | ch 675, 52 Stat 1040 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
short title - Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; Copeland never statutized | |||
| Curtis Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | Sponsor | Curtis Act (Reclamation and Irrigation) | NO short title | Sen. Charles Curtis, (R-KA) | 43 USC 468 | ch. 49, 36 Stat 902 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001008 |
name not statutized | |||
| Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) | Description | Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) | NO short title | 18 USC 1961 ntoes | 91-452, title IX, 901(a) | 84 Stat 941 | N | title of Title IX but no short title | ||||
| ART Act | Acrostic | ART Act | "Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 or the ART Act" | 17 USC 101 | 109-9, title I | 119 Stat 218 | N | short title at beginning of Title I of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 | ||||
| Hall-Mark Act | Description | Hall-Mark Act | NO short title | Hallmark is what is stamped on Gold and Silver to certify purity | 15 USC 291 | ch. 720, 33 Stat 732 | N |
(Dictionary) |
Hallmark not statutized - statute prohibits stamping of gold and silver with "U.S. assay" (still on books, never amended); No one in Congress named Hall at the time and no one ever named Mark; Seems to be "Hallmark" | |||
| Federal Switchblade Act | Description | Federal Switchblade Act | NO short title | 15 USC 1241 | 85-623 | 72 Stat 562 | N | not statutized (though amended in 1986 by 100 Stat 3207) | ||||
| Dawes Act (Marriage with Indian Women) | Sponsor | Dawes Act (Marriage with Indian Women) | NO short title | Sen. Henry Laurens Dawes, (R-MA) | 25 USC 181 | ch. 818, 25 Stat 392 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000148 |
nothing in statute; name not statutized | |||
| Jones Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | Sponsor | Jones Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (see Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) | "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938" | Rep. John Marvin Jones (D-TX) | 7 USC 1281 | ch 30, 52 Stat 31 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236 |
"Jones" not statutized; short title at beginning | |||
| Russell Amendment | Sponsor | Russell Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-GA) | ch 286, title II, section 213, 58 Stat 387 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000536 |
nothing in statute with name; section 214 - short title for act is "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1945"; Russell amendment was a rider requiring congressional approval for all funds for agencies established by executive order and operational for more than one year, meant to stymie President Roosevelt's funding and operation of the FEPC. See William G. Howell, "Power without persuasion: the politics of direct presidential action" (2003) at 132-133. |