The Pennsylvania Register
Every law Pennsylvania has passed
55,382 acts of the General Assembly, from William Penn’s first assembly in 1682 to 2026. Until 1874 much of the Assembly’s work was “special” legislation for a single person, company or town: a divorce, a road, a tavern license. That year’s constitution barred local and special laws on most subjects, and the yearly count fell; lately it is about 150.
Not yet complete · The state has not yet digitized its session laws act by act for most years between 1851 and 1949. We filled what we could from scans of the printed volumes: every year from 1851 to 1875 and most sessions from 1877 to 1907. A computer read those titles, so they can contain misspellings, and a few acts in each year were missed. Most years from 1909 to 1949 are still thin (marked below). Every other year is complete, from 1682 through 1850 and from 1950 to today.
1,819 laws of the 1930s
Constitution of 1874
Creating a commission to compile, edit, publish, and distribute pamphlets descriptive of scenic and historic interest
Act 422 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Providing for the purchase and for the distribution of vitamin products to certain pupils in the public schools
Act 423 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Authorizing the Attorney General to arrange for and hold a conference on crime - joint resolution
Act 424 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Making appropriations to carry into effect the provisions of the act providing for assistance to certain mothers
Act 425 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Providing for special vocational, trade, industrial and commercial schools and classes, in cooperation with school districts
Act 426 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Solid Fuel Weight Regulation Law
Act 427 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Act creating in counties having a population of from 800,000-1,500,000, a board for the assessment and revision of taxes - amend - board of assessors of cities of the second class shall for the year 1936, and subsequent years, furnish annually a properly
Act 428 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Act providing for the acquisition by the State of certain ground at Valley Forge for a public park - amend - acquisition of additional land by the Valley Forge Park Commission
Act 429 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Act relating to limited power permits and limited water supply permits from the Water Supply Commission of Pennsylvania - amend - all moneys, received from the annual charges on limited power permits and limited water supply permits, shall be paid into th
Act 430 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
Concurrent Resolutions
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By decade
Constitution of 18741874–1967
Constitution of 17761776–1789
- 1780s 567
1682–1801: the Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania. 1802–1974: the Pamphlet Laws (Laws of the General Assembly). Both from the scans published by the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau, which link to each original page. 1975 onward: the General Assembly’s own record of legislation enacted, which adds approval dates and bill numbers. Years the Bureau hasn’t indexed act by act come from the annual Laws of the General Assembly as scanned by the Internet Archive and Google Books: we split each volume into acts by their approval lines, and each one links to its scanned page. Before 1975 each year’s appropriation acts were scanned as one bundle, so they aren’t listed one by one. Proposed constitutional amendments, vetoed bills and reorganization plans are left out. Subject lines are the Bureau’s and the General Assembly’s, not the laws’ full titles.