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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Welch Act | Sponsor | Welch Act | NO short title | Rep. Richard Welch (R-CA) | ch 814, 45 Stat 776 | X | nothing in statute; DC civil service | |||||
| Fordney-McCumber Act (see Tariff Act of 1922) | Sponsor | Fordney-McCumber Act (see Tariff Act of 1922) | "Tariff Act of 1922" | Rep. Joseph Warren Fordney, (R-MI); Sen. Porter James McCumber (R-N.D.) | ch 356, 42 Stat 858 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000271; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000397 |
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| Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act | Sponsor | Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act | NO short title | Sen. Hoke Smith (D-GA) and Rep. Dudley Hughes (D-GA) | 20 USC 11 (note) | ch 114, 39 Stat 929 | Y |
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/camp.html; Smith - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000551; Hughes - http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000920 |
"Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act" statutized by 60 Stat 775 | |||
| Burke-Wadsworth Act (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | Sponsor | Burke-Wadsworth Act (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) | "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940" | Sen. Edward Raymond Burke (D-S.D.); Rep. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., (R-N.Y.) | 50 USC App 301 et seq | ch 720, 54 Stat 885 | N |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001089; http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000012 |
short title is "Selective Training and Service Act of 1940"; "Burke-Wadsworth" not statutized | |||
| National Stolen Property Act | Description | National Stolen Property Act | "National Stolen Property Act" | Ch. 333, 48 Stat 794 | ||||||||
| No entry | Description | No entry | "Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937" | Ch 277, 50 Stat 213 | ||||||||
| Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assisstance Act | Honor | Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assisstance Act | "Disaster Relief Act of 1974" | Robert T. Stafford, Representative and Senator from Vermont, helped shepherd the original bill. | 42 USC 5121 (note) | 93-288 | 88 Stat 143 | Y |
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000776; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stafford |
short title amended to include "Robert T. Stafford" by 102 Stat 4689 (1988) | ||
| Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000 | Victim | Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000 | "Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000" | Farias - 17-year-old Texas girl who died in 1996 after GHB had been slipped into her soda. Reid - 15-year-old girl who died in 1999 after GHB was slipped into her soda. | 21 USC 801 (note) | 106-172 | 114 Stat 7 | Y |
Farias - CR H9866, Oct. 12, 1999, Statement of Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee; Reid - CR S14872, Nov. 19, 1999, Statement of Sen. Spencer Abraham. |
short title; guessing victims | ||
| Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 | Honor | Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 | "Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008" | Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN) and Sen. Pete Domenici (NM) | 42 USC 201 (note) | 110-343, div C, title V, subtitle B, section 511 | 122 Stat 3881 | Y |
Letter from David Wellstone, Co-Founder of Wellstone Action, 110 CR H8620, Sept. 23, 2008. |
short title and subtitle name |