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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Hickenlooper Amendment | Sponsor | Hickenlooper Amendment | NO short title | Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA) who introduced the amendment. Though Rep. Hays apparently claimed co-parentage of the amendment (see W. Averell Harriman, The Protection of Foreign Investment and the Hickenlooper Amendment, 112 U.Penn.L.Rev. 1116, http://www.jstor.org/pss/3310530) | 22 USC 2370 (e )(2) | 88-633, part III, Section 301(d)(4) | 78 Stat 1013 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000559 |
Unclear why the Hickenlooper Amendment listed in the PNT is from 1964. It was first attached to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1962 (76 Stat 255). | ||
Walker Tariff Act | Sponsor | Walker Tariff Act | NO short title | Treasury Secretary Robert Walker | ch 74, 9 Stat 42 | X | nothing in statute | |||||
Lacey Act (Game) | Sponsor | Lacey Act (Game) | NO short title | Rep. John F. Lacey (R-IA), introduced bill | 16 USC 3371 | ch. 553, 31 Stat 187 | Y |
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2000/2000-98.htm; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000010 |
Name statutized through Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, 95 Stat 1073; conservation act | |||
Luce Patent Act | Sponsor | Luce Patent Act | NO short title | Rep. Robert Luce (R-MA) | ch. 619, 53 Stat 1293 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000498 |
nothing in statute | ||||
McCarran Amendment (Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1953) | Sponsor | McCarran Amendment (Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1953) | NO short title | Sen. Patrick Anthony McCarran, (D-NV) | 43 USC 666 | ch. 651, title II, section 208(a)-(c ), 66 Stat 560 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000308; |
name not statutized | |||
Dale Bumpers Wilderness Resources Protection Act (also known as the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984) | Sponsor | Dale Bumpers Wilderness Resources Protection Act (also known as the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984) | Enacting Clause - "Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984" | Sen. Dale Bumpers, (D-AK). | 16 USC 1132 (note) | 98-508 | 98 Stat 2349 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001057 |
"Dale Bumpers" not statutized; named as "Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984" in the enacting clause | ||
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | Sponsor | McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 | "McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001" | Rep. Stewart McKinney, (R-CT); Rep. Bruce Vento, (D-Farmer-Labour-MN) | 42 USC 11301 (note) | 107-110, title X, part C (section 1031) | 115 Stat 1989 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000087 |
short title | ||
Barbour Espionage Act (see Espionage Act) | Sponsor | Barbour Espionage Act (see Espionage Act) | NO short title | Rep. Henry Ellsworth Barbour, (R-CA) | ch 30, 40 Stat 217 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000126 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Teller Resolution (Cuba) | Sponsor | Teller Resolution (Cuba) | NO short title | Sen. Henry Teller (R-CO) | No 24, 30 Stat 738 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000116 |
nothing in statute; recognizing Cuba's independence from Spain | ||||
Sterling-Lehlbach Act (Classification, Federal Employees) (see Classification Act of 1923) | Sponsor | Sterling-Lehlbach Act (Classification, Federal Employees) (see Classification Act of 1923) | "The Classification Act of 1923" | Sen. Thomas Sterling,1913-1925, (R-OH); Rep. Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, (R-NJ) | ch 265, 42 Stat 1488 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000872; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000222 |
short title at beginning "The Classification Act of 1923" |