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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White Act (Collisions on Great Lakes) | Sponsor | White Act (Collisions on Great Lakes) | NO short title | Most likely Rep. George Elon (R-IL) (other White was from CA) | 33 USC 241 | ch 64, 28 Stat 645 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000371 |
name not statutized | |||
No entry | Description | No entry | "Third Deficiency Act, 1920" | Ch. 253, 41 Stat 1015 | ||||||||
Glass Bank Official Loan Act (see Bank Official Loan Act) | Sponsor | Glass Bank Official Loan Act (see Bank Official Loan Act) | NO short title | Sen. Carter Glass, (D-VA) | 12 USC 375a | ch 89, ��_��__12, 48 Stat 182 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000232 |
only statutized as Federal Reserve Act, no mention of Glass | |||
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 | |||
Fitzgerald-Tyson Act (see Emergency Officers' Retirement Act) | Sponsor | Fitzgerald-Tyson Act (see Emergency Officers' Retirement Act) | NO short title | Sen. Lawrence Davis Tyson (D-TN); Rep. Roy G. Fitzgerald (R-OH) | ch 735, 45 Stat 735 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000456; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000166 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Wagner-O'Day Act (see Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act) | Sponsor | Wagner-O'Day Act (see Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act) | NO short title | Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-NY); Rep. Caroline O'Day (D-NY) | ch 697, 52 Stat 1196 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000021; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000033 |
nothing in statute (blind-made products) | ||||
Sikes Act Amendments of 1978 | Sponsor | Sikes Act Amendments of 1978 | "Sikes Act Amendments of 1978" | Rep. Robert Sikes (D-FL) | 16 USC 670 (note) | 95-420 | 92 Stat 921 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000406 |
short title in enacting clause, starts at section 2 | ||
Kristen's Act | Victim | Kristen's Act | "Kristen's Act" | Kristen Moderfferi, a constituent of the law's sponsor (Rep. Sue Myrick), who disappeared in 1997 after her freshman year in college. | 42 USC 14661 (note) | 106-468 | 114 Stat 2027 | Y |
CR H10453, Oct. 19, 2000, Statement of Rep. Sue Myrick. |
short title; finding missing adults | ||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Organ Transplant Authorization Act of 2008 | Honor | Stephanie Tubbs Jones Organ Transplant Authorization Act of 2008 | "Stephanie Tubbs Jones Organ Transplant Authorization Act of 2008" | Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, after her death on August 20, 2008, in recognition of her decision to donate her organs and her long-time advocy for organ donation. | 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-426 | 122 Stat 4835 | Y |
110 CR H8669, Sept. 23, 2008 |
Introduced before Jones's death in August 2008, but amended to honor her. | ||
Potato Act of 1935 | Description | Potato Act of 1935 | "Potato Act of 1935" | 7 USC 801 | Ch. 641, 49 Stat 750 |