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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Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act | Honor | Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act | "Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act" | Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink (HI) who died on Sept. 28, 2002. | 20 USC 1681 (note) | 107-255 | 116 Stat 1734 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000797 |
joint resolution renaming title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for Patsy Takemoto Mink, whereas clauses about her | ||
Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | Sponsor | Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) | "Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006" | Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (WA) and Sen. Ted Stevens (AK) | 16 USC 1801 (note) | 109-479 | 120 Stat 3575 | Y |
Magnuson - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000053; Stevens - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000888 |
The House version was named for Stevens-Inouye, but the Senate version was Magnuson-Stevens. The law had previously been statutized only with Magnuson's name, not Stevens's. | ||
Corey Shea Act | Victim | Corey Shea Act | "Corey Shea Act" | Army Specialist Corey Shea was killed in Iraq in November 2008. His mother fought for the legislation to allow interment in military cemeteries of parents of deceased veterans who do not have spouses or children. | 38 USC 101 (note) | 111-275, title V, section 502 | 124 Stat 2882 | Y |
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2010/10/01/news/8022590.txt |
short title of Sec. 502 - internment in national cemeteries of parents of certain deceased veterans | ||
Second Morrill Act (aka Agricultural College Act of 1890) | Sponsor | Second Morrill Act (aka Agricultural College Act of 1890) | NO short title | Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT), though really named for the "First Morrill Act." The Second Morrill Act provided additional endowments for land-grant universities, but prohibited money to states that discriminated based on race in admission. | 7 USC 321 (note) | ch 841, 26 Stat 417 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000969; http://ext.wvu.edu/about_extension/land_grant_system |
"Second Morrill Act" statutized by reference at 94 Stat 1502 | |||
Taft-Hartley Act (see Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947) | Sponsor | Taft-Hartley Act (see Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947) | "Labor Management Relations Act, 1947" | Sen. Robert Taft, (R-OH); Rep. Fred Hartley, (R-N.J.) | 29 USC 141(a) | ch 120, 61 Stat 136 | Y |
Taft-Hartley Labor Act, infoplease.com, http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0847620.html; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000009; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000298 |
short title at beginning - "Labor Management Relations Act, 1947"; "Taft-Hartley" name statutized by mention in PL 105-258, 112 Stat 1902 (1998) but direct mention was dropped when in codification, see notes in codification | |||
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act | Institution | Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act | "Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act" | Sen. Hubert Humphrey (MN) and Sen. Everett Dirksen (IL). | 20 USC 2566 (note) | 95-270 | 92 Stat 220 | Y |
Humphrey - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953; Dirksen - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000360 |
authorizing funds for institutes already named for Humphrey and Dirksen | ||
Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act | Sponsor | Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act | "Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act" | Rep. Frank Annunzio (D-IL); Rep. Chalmers Wylie (R-OH) | 12 USC 1811 | 102-550, title XV | 106 Stat 4044 | Y |
Annunzio - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000212; Wylie - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000781 |
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James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act of 2005 | Institution | James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act of 2005 | "James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act of 2005" | James Campbell was an Irish industrialist who spent much of his life in Hawai'i. His estate leases the land for the refuge. | 16 USC 668dd | 109-225 | 120 Stat 378 | Y |
http://jchsalumni.org/history.htm; http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=12529 |
title and short title; | ||
Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act | Honor | Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act | "Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act" | Christopher Reeve, actor best known for playing Superman, and his wife Dana, who became advocates for people living with paralysis and spinal cord injuries after Reeve became paralyzed as a result of an accident. | short title see 42 USC 201 (note) | 111-11, title XIV | 123 Stat 1452 | Y |
http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?b=4455033&... |
short title | ||
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 | Award | Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 | "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968" | President Woodrow Wilson | 20 USC 80e (note) | 90-637 | 82 Stat 1356 | Y |
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