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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wagner-Lea Act (see Investment Advisers Act of 1940; Investment Company Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Wagner-Lea Act (see Investment Advisers Act of 1940; Investment Company Act of 1940) | short title at end of title I - "Investment Company Act of 1940"; short title at end of title II - "Investment Advisers Act of 1940" | Rep. Clarence Frederick Lea, (D-CA); Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-NY) | 15 USC 80a-51 | ch 686, title I, 54 Stat 789 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000163; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021 |
"Wagner-Lea" not statutized; Investment Advisers Act is ch 686, title II, 54 Stat 847, codified at 15 USC 80b-20 | |||
| Revenue Act of 1934 | Description | Revenue Act of 1934 | "Revenue Act of 1934" | Ch. 277, 48 Stat 680 | ||||||||
| Guffey-Vinson Act (see Bituminous Coal Act of 1937) | Sponsor | Guffey-Vinson Act (see Bituminous Coal Act of 1937) | "Bituminous Coal Act of 1937" | Sen. Joseph E. Guffey, (D-PA); Rep. Frederick Moore Vinson (D-KY) | 15 USC 828 | ch 127, 50 Stat 72 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000519; http://eris.uky.edu/catalog/xt7msb3wtd0h/guide (for why this Vinson - there are two); http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000106 |
"Guffey-Vinson" not statutized; short title at end (section 21) - "Bituminous Coal Act of 1937" | |||
| Independent Offices Act, 1931 | Description | Independent Offices Act, 1931 | "Independent Offices Act, 1931" | Ch. 201, 46 Stat 229 | ||||||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Third Deficiency Act, 1920" | Ch. 253, 41 Stat 1015 | ||||||||
| Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 | Honor | Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 | "Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Improvement Act of 1987" | Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldridge, killed in a rodeo accident in July 1987. | 15 USC 3701 (note) | 100-107 | 101 Stat 724 | Y | long title is amending Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1990 to establish an award named for Malcom Baldridge | |||
| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sponsor | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | "Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002" | Sen. Paul Sarbanes, (D-MD); Rep. Michael Oxley (R-OH) | 15 USC 7201 (note) | 107-204 | 116 Stat 745 | Y |
Nance Lucas, An Interview with United States Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXD/is_1_11/ai_n25101748/; Sarbanes-Oxley Essential Information, sox-online.com, http://www.sox-online.com/basics.html; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000064; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000163 |
short title | ||
| Financial Stability Act of 2010 | Political Description | Financial Stability Act of 2010 | "Financial Stability Act of 2010" | 12 USC 5301 | 111-203, title I | 124 Stat 1391 | Y | short title at beginning of title I; full bill is Dodd-Frank | ||||
| Pickett Act | Sponsor | Pickett Act | NO short title | Rep. Charles Edgar Pickett, (R-IA) | 43 USC 141 | ch 421, 36 Stat 847 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000325 |
name not statutized; authorizing president to withdraw from public lands | |||
| Bonner Act (see Federal Boating Act of 1958) | Sponsor | Bonner Act (see Federal Boating Act of 1958) | "Federal Boating Act of 1958" | Rep. Herbert Covington Bonner, (D-SC) | 85-911 | 72 Stat 1754 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000621 |
short title - "Federal Boating Act of 1958" |