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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Light Abatement Act (District of Columbia) | Description | Red Light Abatement Act (District of Columbia) | NO short title | ch 16, 38 Stat 280 | N | nothing in statute; about prostitution, "houses of lewdness" | ||||||
| Walsh Act (Contempts) | Sponsor | Walsh Act (Contempts) | NO short title | Sen. Thomas J. Walsh (D-MT) | ch 762, 44 Stat 835 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000104 |
nothing in statute | ||||
| Humphrey-Hawkins Act (see Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978) | Sponsor | Humphrey-Hawkins Act (see Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978) | "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978" | Sen. Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (D-MN); Rep. Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins; (D-CA) | 15 USC 3101 | 95-523 | 92 Stat 1887 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000367 |
name not statutized; short title at beginning | ||
| Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act | Honor | Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act | "Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study Act" | Harriet Tubman, "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. | 106-516 | 114 Stat 2404 | Y | short title; directing resources to study the possible creation of a national historic site associated with Harriet Tubman | ||||
| Copeland Firearms Act | Sponsor | Copeland Firearms Act | "Federal Firearms Act" | Sen. Royal Samuel Copeland, (D-N.Y.) | 15 USC 901 et seq | ch 850, 52 Stat 1250 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000769 |
"Copeland" never statutized, act repealed; short title (at end) | |||
| Health Omnibus Programs Extension of 1988 | Acrostic | Health Omnibus Programs Extension of 1988 | "Health Omnibus Programs Extension Act of 1988" | 42 USC 201 note | 100-607 | 102 Stat 3048 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; this would be more interesting if it is NOT called the "HOPE Act", which in fact it is not in the PNT | ||||
| Brooks Act (Architects and Engineers) (see Brooks Architect-Engineers Act) | Sponsor | Brooks Act (Architects and Engineers) (see Brooks Architect-Engineers Act) | NO short title | Rep. Overton Brooks (D-LA), served on the Committee on Science and Aeronautics. | 92-582 | 86 Stat 1278 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000884 |
Kind of odd. Info in Table is "June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title IX, as added Oct 27, 1972, Pub. L. 92-582, 86 Stat. 1278" No name in statute; amended to add short title "Brooks Architect-Engineers Act" by 108 Stat 3409 in 1994 | |||
| Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act | Honor | Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act | "Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act" | Rep. George Thomas (Mickey) Leland (TX), was Chairman of the Select Committee on Hunger. Killed in an aircraft crash in Ehtiopia while en route to a UN refugee camp. | 7 USC 2011 (note) | 103-66, title XIII, ch 3 (section 13901) | 107 Stat 672 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000237 |
short title (food stamps) | ||
| Public Utility Act of 1935 | Description | Public Utility Act of 1935 | "Public Utility Act (Federal Power Act)" | Ch. 687, 49 Stat 803 | ||||||||
| ED 1.0 Act | Political Description | ED 1.0 Act | "ED 1.0 Act" | 47 USC 902 (note) | 110-161, div. B, title V, Section 536 | 121 Stat 1932 | N | titled in statute (functionally a short title); providing grants for wireless communication on certain college campuses -- really not clear what "ED 1.0" maens |