Statutes Compilations
2,679 codified federal statutes with amendments, sourced from GovInfo COMPS collection.
- 8/31/1962To provide for the establishment, ownership, operation, and regulation of a commercial communications satellite system, and for other purposes.;Communications Satellite Act of 1962
- 9/30/1961To amend the antitrust laws to authorize leagues of professional football, baseball, basketball, and hockey teams to enter into certain television contracts, and for other purposes.;Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961;Act of September 30, 1961
- 9/2/1960To amend the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920.;Mineral Leasing Act Revision of 1960
- 7/12/1960To regulate the importation of milk and cream into the United States for the purpose of promoting the dairy industry of the United States and protecting the public health.;Import Milk Act
- 5/6/1960To enforce constitutional rights, and for other purposes.;Civil Rights Act of 1960
- 9/24/1959To establish an Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.;Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Act of 1959
- 9/14/1959Relating to the power of the States to impose net income taxes on income derived from interstate commerce, and authorizing studies by congressional committees of matters pertaining thereto.;Act of September 14, 1959
- 8/28/1958To provide more effective price, production adjustment, and marketing programs for various agricultural commodities.;Agricultural Act of 1958
- 8/25/1958To provide retirement, clerical assistants, and free mailing privileges to former Presidents of the United States, and for other purposes.;Former Presidents Act of 1958
- 8/23/1958To continue the Civil Aeronautics Board as an agency of the United States, to create a Federal Aviation Agency, to provide for the regulation and promotion of civil aviation in such manner as to best foster its development and safety, and to provide for the safe and efficient use of the airspace by both civil and military aircraft, and for other purposes.;Federal Aviation Act of 1958
- 8/23/1958To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii," approved April 30, 1900, as amended, to establish an Hawaiian Homes Commission, granting certain powers to the board of harbor commissioners of the Territory of Hawaii and for other purposes.;Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920
- 8/23/1958To continue the Civil Aeronautics Board as an agency of the United States, to create a Federal Aviation Agency, to provide for the regulation and promotion of civil aviation in such manner as to best foster its development and safety, and to provide for the safe and efficient use of the airspace by both civil and military aircraft, and for other purposes.;Federal Aviation Act of 1958
- 9/9/1957To provide means of further securing and protecting the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States.;Civil Rights Act of 1957
- 8/28/1957To provide for the compulsory inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture of poultry and poultry products.;Poultry Products Inspection Act
- 7/12/1957To extend and amend laws relating to the provision and improvement of housing, to improve the availability of mortgage credit, and for other purposes.;Housing Act of 1957
- 8/7/1956To provide insurance against flood damage, and for other purposes.;Federal Flood Insurance Act of 1956
- 6/27/1956Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes.;Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1957
- 5/28/1956To enact the Agricultural Act of 1956.;Agricultural Act of 1956
- 8/11/1955To extend and clarify laws relating to the provision and improvement of housing, the elimination and prevention of slums, the conservation and development of urban communities, the financing of vitally needed public works, and for other purposes.;Housing Amendments of 1955
- 7/23/1955To amend the Act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 681) and the mining laws to provide for multiple use of the surface of the same tracts of the public lands, and for other purposes.;Act of July 23, 1955 (Surface Resources Act of 1955)
- 8/28/1954To provide for greater stability in agriculture; to augment the marketing and disposal of agricultural products; and for other purposes.;Agricultural Act of 1954
- 8/2/1954To aid in the provision and improvement of housing, the elimination and prevention of slums, and the conservation and development of urban communities.;Housing Act of 1954
- 6/24/1954Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes.;Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1955
- 7/27/1953Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.;Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1954
- 8/31/1951Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes.;Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1952;Act of August 31, 1951
- 1/2/1951To prohibit transportation of gambling devices in interstate and foreign commerce.;Gambling Devices Transportation Act;Johnson Act (gambling devices)
- 9/23/1950To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes.;Emergency Detention Act of 1950;Internal Security Act of 1950;Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950
- 9/7/1950To authorize the construction, protection, operation, and maintenance of a public airport in or in the vicinity of the District of Columbia.;Dulles International Airport Act;Second Washington Airport Act
- 8/9/1950To authorize the regulation of whaling and to give effect to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling signed at Washington under date of December 2, 1946, by the United States of America and certain other governments, and for other purposes.;Whaling Convention Act of 1949
- 8/1/1950To authorize the conveyance, for school purposes, of certain land in Acadia National Park to the town of Tremont, Maine, and for other purposes.;Act of August 1, 1950
- 4/20/1950To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes.;Housing Act of 1950
- 10/29/1949Making appropriations for the National Security Council, the National Security Resources Board, and for military functions administered by the National Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes.;National Military Establishment Appropriation Act of 1950
- 6/29/1949To amend the National Bank Act and the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, and for other purposes.;Act of June 29, 1949
- 6/29/1949Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other purposes.;Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1950;Act of June 29, 1949
- 3/29/1949To provide that acreage planted to cotton in 1949 shall not be used in computing cotton acreage allotments for any subsequent year.;Act of March 29, 1949 (Cotton Acreage Allotments)
- 6/5/1948Relating to the meat-inspection service of the Department of Agriculture.;Act of June 5, 1948
- 8/8/1946To amend the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, in order to promote the development of oil and gas on the public domain, and for other purposes.;O'Mahoney-Hatch Act;Act of August 8, 1946;Act of August 8, 1946 (Reduced mineral royalty)
- 8/2/1946To provide for increased efficiency in the legislative branch of the Government.;Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946;General Bridge Act of 1946
- 7/15/1946To implement further the purposes of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out an agreement with the United Kingdom, and for other purposes.;Act of July 15, 1946
- 5/13/1946To provide Federal aid for the development of public airports.;Federal Airport Act
- 7/1/1944To consolidate and revise the laws relating to the Public Health Service, and for other purposes.;Public Health Service Act-TITLE VI (Assistance for Construction and Modern- Ization of Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities);Public Health Service Act
- 7/1/1944To consolidate and revise the laws relating to the Public Health Service, and for other purposes.;Public Health Service Act-TITLE XXXII (Repealed.);Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative;Migrant Health Act;Public Health Service Act;Safe Drinking Water Act
- 7/16/1943To continue the Commodity Credit Corporation as an agency of the United States, to increase its borrowing power, and for other purposes.;Act of July 16, 1943
- 12/2/1942To provide benefits for the injury, disability, death, or enemy detention of employees of contractors with the United States, and for other purposes.;War Hazards Compensation Act
- 10/14/1940To protect producers, manufacturers, distributors, and consumers from the unrevealed presence of substitutes and mixtures in spun, woven, knitted, felted, or otherwise manufactured wool products, and for other purposes.;Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939
- 6/29/1940To provide for the administration of the Washington National Airport, and for other purposes.;Washington National Airport Act
- 8/11/1939To facilitate the execution of arrangements for the exchange of surplus agricultural commodities produced in the United States for reserve stocks of strategic and critical materials produced abroad.;Act of August 11, 1939 (Exchange for Critical and Strategic Materials)
- 8/11/1939To authorize the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to purchase and distribute surplus products of the fishing industry.;Act of August 11, 1939;Salstonstall-Kennedy Act;Act of August 11, 1939 (Salstonstall-Kennedy Act)
- 8/11/1939To authorize the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to purchase and distribute surplus products of the fishing industry.;Saltonstall-Kennedy Act;Act of August 11, 1939
- 5/11/1938To provide for the conservation of the fishery resources of the Columbia River, establishment, operation, and maintenance of one or more stations in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and for the conduct of necessary investigations, surveys, stream improvements, and stocking operations for these purposes.;Mitchell Act (Columbia River Basin Fishery Development)
- 3/8/1938To maintain unimpaired the capital of the Commodity Credit Corporation at $100,000,000, and for other purposes.;Act of March 8, 1938
- 6/28/1937To extend the time for purchase and distribution of surplus agricultural commodities for relief purposes and to continue the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation.;Act of June 28, 1937 (Summer Camps for Children)
- 6/19/1936To amend section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes", approved October 15, 1914, as amended (U.S.C., title 15, sec. 13), and for other purposes.;Chainstore Act;Price Discrimination Act;Robinson-Patman Act;Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act;Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act
- 8/24/1935To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes.;Potato Act of 1935;Act of August 24, 1935
- 8/21/1935To amend an Act entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain", approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; U.S.C., title 30, secs. 185, 221, 223, 226), as amended.;Act of August 21, 1935 (Exemption of naval petroleum and naval oil-shale reserves)
- 6/29/1935To provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges.;Agricultural Research Act;Bankhead-Jones Act;Act of June 29, 1935
- 6/25/1934Authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products.;Fisherman's Collective Marketing Act
- 6/10/1930To suppress unfair and fraudulent practices in the marketing of perishable agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce.;Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930
- 2/7/1927To promote the mining of potash on the public domain.;Act of February 7, 1927 (Chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium)
- 7/2/1926To create a division of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture; to provide for the acquisition and dissemination of information pertaining to cooperation; to promote the knowledge of cooperative principles and practices; to provide for calling advisers to counsel with the Secretary of Agriculture on cooperative activities; to authorize cooperative associations to acquire, interpret, and disseminate crop and market information, and for other purposes.;Co-operative Marketing Act
- 5/20/1926To provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, and for other purposes.;Railway Labor Act
- 4/17/1926To promote the production of sulphur upon the public domain within the State of Louisiana.;Act of April 17, 1926 (Sulphur);Act of April 17, 1926
- 3/4/1923To prohibit the shipment of filled milk in interstate or foreign commerce.;Filled Milk Act
- 2/18/1922To authorize association of producers of agricultural products.;Capper-Volstead Act
- 5/27/1921Relating to the landing and operation of submarine cables in the United States.;Kellogg Act (Cable Companies)
- 3/4/1917Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.;Act of March 4, 1917;Act of March 4, 1917 (Weeks Act Minerals)
- 9/8/1916To increase the revenue, and for other purposes.;Act of September 8, 1916
- 8/25/1916To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes.;National Park Service Organic Act
- 8/11/1916Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.;United States Warehouse Act;Brush Disposal Act;Warehouse Act
- 6/30/1914Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.;Act of June 30, 1914 (Inspection of Reindeer)
- 8/20/1912To regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes.;Plant Quarantine Act
- 5/23/1908Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.;Federal Revenue Sharing Act (National Forest Revenues for Public School and Road Expenditures)
- 4/22/1908Relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.;Federal Employers' Liability Act
- 3/4/1907Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.;Nelson Amendment (Agricultural Colleges);Act of March 4, 1907
- 2/11/1903To expedite the hearing and determination of suits in equity pending or hereafter brought under the act of July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," "An act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or any other acts having a like purpose that may be hereafter enacted.;Expediting Act
- 5/25/1900To enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes.;Lacey Act (Game)
- 3/2/1895Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.;Bond Act (Public Officers)
- 8/30/1890To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.;Second Morrill Act;Act of August 30, 1890
- 7/2/1862Donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.;Act of July 2, 1862 (First Morrill Act)
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