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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORBIT Act | Acrostic | ORBIT Act | "Open-market Reorganization for the Betterment of International Telecommunications Act" or "ORBIT Act" | 47 USC 701 | 106-180 | 114 Stat 48 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Buy American Act of 1988 | Political Description | Buy American Act of 1988 | "Buy American Act of 1988" | 41 USC 101 | 100-418, title VII | 102 Stat 1545 | Y | short title at beginning of statute | ||||
| Sikes Act Improvement Act of 1997 | Sponsor | Sikes Act Improvement Act of 1997 | "Sikes Act Improvement Act of 1997" | Rep. Robert Sikes (D-FL) | 16 USC 670 (note) | 105-85, div B, title XXIX | 111 Stat 2016 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000406 |
short title; also Section 2903 codifies the name "Sikes Act" | ||
| Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | Honor | Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act | "Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act" | Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN) and his wife, Sheila. | 107-316 | 116 Stat 2764 | Y |
Legislation (Section 2, findings) |
short title; Wellstones also named in long title; providing money for an existing community center in St Paul, to be renamed for the Wellstones | |||
| PACE-Energy Act | Acrostic | PACE-Energy Act | "Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act" or "PACE-Energy Act" | 42 USC 15801 | 110-69, title V | 121 Stat 600 | Y | short title at beginning of title V | ||||
| Weeks Law | Sponsor | Weeks Law | NO short title | Rep. John Weeks (MA) | 16 USC 552 (note) | ch 186, 36 Stat 961 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000246; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeks_Act |
statutized as "known as the Weeks law" in 39 Stat 1150 | |||
| William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act | Award | William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act | "William Levi Dawson Chair of Public Affairs Act" | Rep. William Levi Dawson (IL), attended Fisk University. | 96-374, title XIII, part H, subpart 3 (section 1381) | 94 Stat 1503 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000158 |
short title; establishing named chair at Fisk University | |||
| Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 | Acrostic | Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 | "Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000" | 47 USC 1101 | 106-553 S 1(a)(2) [title X} | 114 Stat 2762, 2762A-127 | Y | short title at beginning of title X; title X is "Title X -- LOCAL TV ACT", but otherwise acronym not listed in PNT | ||||
| Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 | Honor | Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 | "Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006" | Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and SNCC organizer. Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader. Coretta Scott King was a civil rights activist and founder of the Center for Nonviolent Social Change. | 42 USC 1971 (note) | 109-246 | 120 Stat 577 | Y |
Hamer - http://www.biography.com/people/fannie-lou-hamer-205625; Parks - http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715?page=1; Scott King - http://www.biography.com/people/coretta-scott-king-9542067. |
short title in Statutes at Large is the "Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006" | ||
| Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 | Acrostic | Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 | "Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009" | 42 USC 11301 | 111-22, div B | 123 Stat 1663 | Y | short title at beginning of statute; acronym not listed in PNT |