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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heyburn Act (Pure Food and Drugs) (see Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906) | Sponsor | Heyburn Act (Pure Food and Drugs) (see Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906) | NO short title | Sen. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, (R-ID) | ch 3915, 34 Stat 768 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000554 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Wagner Act (Advance Planning of Public Works) (see Employment Stabilization Act of 1931) | Sponsor | Wagner Act (Advance Planning of Public Works) (see Employment Stabilization Act of 1931) | "Employment Stabilization Act of 1931" | Sen. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, (D-N.Y.) | ch 117, 46 Stat 1084 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021 |
short title at beginning "Employment Stabilization Act of 1931" | ||||
| Check 21 Act | Description | Check 21 Act | "Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act" or "Check 21 Act" | 12 USC 5001 | 108-100 | 117 Stat 1177 | Y | both in short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 | Honor/Sponsor | Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 | "Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011" | Rep. Ike Skelton (TX), Chair of House Armed Services Committee. | 111-383 | 124 Stat 4137 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000465 |
Negotiated language was introduced as original bill, so "Ike Skelton National Defense��_��__��_��___" was original title introduced by Skelton himself. Though bill was introduced AFTER Skelton had already lost re-election. See Committee Print, HASC No. 5, Dec. 2010. | |||
| Curt Flood Act of 1998 | Honor | Curt Flood Act of 1998 | "Curt Flood Act of 1998" | Curt Flood was a Major League Baseball player who challenged the league's reserve clause in a suit that went before the Supreme Court as Flood v. Kuhn. He died of throat cancer the day before the bill was introduced. | 15 USC 1 (note) | 105-297 | 112 Stat 2824 | Y |
Introductory remarks of Sen. Hatch (S 53), CR S418, Jan. 21, 1997. |
Amends the Clayton Act to specify that baseball is subject to antitrust laws. Named for MLB player Curt Flood, who was litigant in SCOTUS case Flood v. Kuhn that overturned Federal Baseball Club. Senate and House bills were introduced on the first day of the 105th Congress. The House version (introduced by Conyers) was HR 21, for Flood's uniform number for the Cardinals. | ||
| Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007 | Honor | Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007 | "Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007" | Dr. James Allen is a professor of opthamology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He worked for 33 years at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Wisconsin. (Bill sponsored by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI)). | 38 USC 101 (note) | 110-157 | 121 Stat 1831 | Y |
H. Rept. 110-057 |
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| Mitchell Act (Columbia River Basin Fishery Development) | Honor | Mitchell Act (Columbia River Basin Fishery Development) | NO short title | Hugh C. Mitchell, director of Fish Culture for the State of Oregon in the 1930s | 16 USC 755 | ch 193, 52 Stat 345 | N |
http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/mitchell_act_1938_/ |
name not statutized | |||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bicentennial Civic Center Act | Honor | Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bicentennial Civic Center Act | "Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bicentennial Civic Center Act" | President Dwight D. Eisenhower | 92-520 | 86 Stat 1019 | Y | title in enacting clause; also strange b/c the bill starts at Sec 2 | ||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Third Deficiency Act, 1920" | Ch. 253, 41 Stat 1015 | ||||||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Farm Credit Act of 1935" | Ch. 164, 49 Stat 313 |