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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Dill-Crosser Railway Labor Act (see Railway Labor Act) | Sponsor | Dill-Crosser Railway Labor Act (see Railway Labor Act) | "Railway Labor Act" | Rep. Robert Crosser, (D-OH); Sen. Clarence Cleveland Dill, (D-WA) | 45 USC 151 | ch 347, 44 Stat 577 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000932; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000345 |
name not statutized | |||
Johnson Amendment (see Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933) | Sponsor | Johnson Amendment (see Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933) | "Corporation of Foreign Bondholders Act, 1933" | Really unclear. The amendments offered in the House were all Committee amendments put forward by Rep. Rayburn, and the Senate amendments were by Shipstead. No one named Johnson participated in the debate in either chamber and none was appointed a conferee. It's possible that this is a mistake in the PNT, because there is a more famous "Johnson Amendment" in tax law that was offered by Sen. Lyndon Johnson on the floor, but it was not an amendment dealing with this part of the tax code - http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=154788,00.html | 15 USC 77mm | ch 38, title II, 48 Stat 92 | N | short title at end of title II - "Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1935" - each of these titles has an appropriations name, but why no personal name for these? | ||||
Boykin Merchant Marine Act | Sponsor | Boykin Merchant Marine Act | NO short title | Rep. Frank Boykin (D-AL) | ch 186, 53 Stat 810 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000725 |
names that it is amending Merchant Marine Act of 1936 | ||||
Kellogg Act (Advance for Agricultural Purposes) | Sponsor | Kellogg Act (Advance for Agricultural Purposes) | NO short title | Sen. Frank Billings Kellogg, (R-MN) | ch. 80, 42 Stat 181 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000065 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Fulbright-Hays Act (see Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961) | Sponsor | Fulbright-Hays Act (see Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961) | "Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961" | Sen. J. William Fulbright, (D-AK) | 22 USC 2451 | 87-256 | 75 Stat 527 | Y |
Richard D. Scarfo, The History of Title VI and Fulbright-Hayes, www.international.ucla.edu/pacrim/title6/Over2-Scarfo.pdf; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000401. |
"Fulbright-Hays" statutized by PL 102-138, 105 Stat 647 with "(commonly referred to as the 'Fulbright-Hays Act')", codified at 22 USC 1475h | ||
Nelson Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | Sponsor | Nelson Act (Chippewa Indians of Minnesota) | NO short title | Rep. Knute Nelson (R-MN) | ch 24, 25 Stat 642 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000040; see also http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00578.xml |
nothing in statute | ||||
Dent Act | Sponsor | Dent Act | NO short title | Rep. Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr., (D-AL) | ch. 94, 40 Stat 1272 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000256 |
nothing in statute; granting emergency power to the Secretary of War -- maybe Dent is secretary of war? | ||||
Celler-Kefauver Act (see Anti-Merger Act) | Sponsor | Celler-Kefauver Act (see Anti-Merger Act) | NO short title | Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY); Sen. Carey Kefauver (D-TN) | ch 1184, 64 Stat 1125 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000264; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000044 |
nothing in statute | ||||
Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 | Sponsor | Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 | "Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994" | Rep. Donald Riegle, (D-MO) | 12 USC 4701 | 103-325 | 108 Stat 2160 | Y | short title | |||
Wilson Act (Northern Pacific Railraod) | Sponsor | Wilson Act (Northern Pacific Railraod) | NO short title | Sen. John Lockwood Wilson (R-WA) | ch 546 [part], 30 Stat 597, 620 | X |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000602 |
nothing in statute; also unclear why 620 is included |