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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
Act placing upon the Commonwealth the responsibility for the construction and maintenance of certain bridges on State highway routes or continuations of State highway routes in boroughs, incorporated towns, cities of the third class, and townships and
Act 25 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act providing for the burial of soldiers, sailors, or marines, designated as 'deceased service men' - amend - definition of the term "deceased service men"
Act 26 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing the Secretary of Highways to designate by letter, or to name, number, or combine State highways, to best accommodate and inform the traveling public using the highways of the Commonwealth, and facilitate the keeping of maps and records of
Act 27 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To validate acts done by corporations before the recording of their charters
Act 28 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes - amend - authorizing and directing county treasurers to execute deeds for unseated lands sold by their predecessors in office
Act 29 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
For the development and use of unredeemed seated and unseated lands purchased by county commissioners at tax sales - enactmen
Act 30 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act prohibiting the use of counterfeit or spurious coins in automatic instruments or machines - amend - including devices or substances other than metal; penalties for the
Act 31 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Highway Department Law - amend - payment by the Commonwealth of damages for land or property taken, injured or destroyed by the change of width, lines, and
Act 32 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Legal Holiday Law - amend - authorizing bank holidays during State and National financial crises
Act 33 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing courts of common pleas to stay and adjourn the execution of certain writs in the hands of sheriffs
Act 34 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing and regulating the issue and sale of preferred stock by banks and trust companies - enac
Act 35 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act for the compensation by counties of persons detained as material witnesses in criminal prosecutions - amend - reducing the compensation of detained witnesses
Act 36 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relative to the county offices of Clarion County, to certain streets in the borough of Brookville, and to hawkers and peddlers in Bedford County - repeal - section thre
Act 37 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Foreign Fire Insurance Premium Tax Allocation Law - amend - additional payments to relief fund associations of fire departments and fire companies of cities, boroughs, and townships which afford fire protection to adjoining boroughs and townships
Act 38 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act providing for the organization, government, discipline, maintenance and regulation of the armed land forces of this Commonwealth - amend - authorizing any major
Act 39 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - excluding interest bearing accounts in any bank or banking institution, savings institution, or trust company
Act 40 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Property and Supplies to convey lands to the City of Harrisburg
Act 41 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing collectors of delinquent taxes, except in cities of the first class, to accept payments of delinquent taxes or water-rents or rates in installments - amend - extending to county taxes, other than in counties of the second class; clarifying
Act 42 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - removing liver products from the provision which prohibits the sale of medicines containing
Act 43 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Pennsylvania White Pine Blister Rust Act of 1933
Act 44 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Architects Registration Law - amend - fee for renewal certificates; extending the powers of the board as to revocation and suspension of certificates
Act 45 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania - amend - extending to all bituminous coal mines where five or more persons are employed or engaged in work; empowering mine inspectors
Act 45 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act making it unlawful for any person to hold himself out or advertise himself as a lawyer, attorney-at-law, or counsellor-at-law in any county of the State of Pennsylvania, unless duly admitted to practice by a court of record - amend - defining and proh
Act 46 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Pymatuning Swamp Reservoir Project Law - amend - making an appropriation to the Department of Forests and Waters to carry into effect the act
Act 47 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to the minimum salaries and annual increments of the teaching and supervisory staffs of public schools; granting power to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to permit temporary reductions in the salary schedules; authorizing Superintendent
Act 48 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Sunday Baseball and Football Law
Act 49 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Insurance Commissioners, during the existing emergency, to suspend laws relating to certain payments by insurers, and to impose conditions upon the
Act 50 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - authorizing the funding of certain indebtedne
Act 51 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Defining the kind of title cities of the second class shall acquire pursuant to the exercise of the power of eminent domain - enactm
Act 52 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - increasing the number of years of service of employes totally and permanently disabled to entitle them to pensions; rate per centum of payment by employes of their monthly salaries or wages; maximum payment
Act 53 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Penal Code of 1860 - amend - making unlawful the counterfeiting, altering and uttering of scrip, and possession of materials for falsely making th
Act 54 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - defining group life insurance
Act 55 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Empowering a court in which a suit for the recovery of damages for personal injuries to a minor is pending to make an order authorizing a compromise or settlement to b
Act 56 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing any city of the second class in this Commonwealth to sell or dispose of its interest in property condemned for public park or for any public use to the holder of t
Act 57 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Second Class City Law - amend - abolishing the advertising of delinquent ta
Act 58 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Third Class City Code - amend - fixing of the salary of the city treasurer as collector of city, school, and poor taxes; requiring the city and school district to pay the premiums on the bonds required to be given to the city and school district
Act 59 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to billiard saloons - repeal - as applies to the county of Crawford
Act 60 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to regulate nomination and election expenses - amend - requiring the treasurers of political committees concerned in the nominations of candidates to file accounts of election expenses
Act 61 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to boarding houses for infants - amend - authorizing the Department of Welfare to collect fees for licenses
Act 62 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
ct to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and buria
Act 63 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to municipal indebtedness - amend - authorizing the Department of Internal Affairs to charge and collect fees for examining and approving proceedings relating to
Act 64 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Old Age Assistance Act
Act 64 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
oxing and Wrestling Law - amend - the number of rounds permitted in boxing or sparing matches or exhibitions
Act 65 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act regulating certain maternity hospitals in cities of the third class, boroughs, towns, and townships - amend - license fee to be collected by the Department of Welfare
Act 66 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to the fees of the surveyor general - amend - fees to be charged by the Department of Internal Affairs for services rendered by the Land Office
Act 67 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Workmen's Insurance Fund Law - amend - examination and audit of the State Workmen's Insurance Fund by the Insurance Department
Act 68 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Second Class Township Law
Act 69 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Liquid Fuels Tax Act - amend - preventing suspension of permits without hearings, and providing for appeals in case of suspension or revocation of permits
Act 70 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - cooperation by school districts with municipal districts in health work
Act 71 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Giving courts of common pleas jurisdiction of actions for injuries to lands situate without the Commonwealth
Act 72 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
econd Class County Jury Selection Law - amend - method of giving notice to persons selected as jurors
Act 73 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the issue and sale of bonds by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to defray the expenses of government
Act 74 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing the abatement of penalties on local taxes - amend - extension of time for delivery of duplicates to collectors of delinquent taxes
Act 75 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Dental Law
Act 76 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act ceding concurrent jurisdiction of this State over certain lands owned or hereafter acquired by the United States - amend - requiring the transfer to the Department of Internal Affairs of descriptions and plans now
Act 77 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Providing for the deferring of sentences in certain cases pending the mental examination of defendants
Act 78 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To authorize certain corporations organized under the laws of Pennsylvania, including railroad corporations, increase or decrease the par value of the shares of their capital stock
Act 79 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing stock corporations to issue, shares of capital stock of any class or classes, with or without nominal or par value, and with such designations, terms, relative rights, powers, privileges, preferences, limitations, restrictions and qualificatio
Act 80 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To provide for a convention to ratify or reject an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and for the prohibition of the transportation, importation, delivery, or use of intoxicating liquors in viola
Act 81 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To enable tax collectors and receivers of taxes to make return of unpaid taxes assessed on seated lands for the years 1931 and 1932
Act 82 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing and requiring grand and petit juries to dispose of the costs in criminal prosecutions for larceny - amend - giving to juries jurisdiction over the costs in prosecutions for larceny and receiving stolen
Act 83 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Local Delinquent Tax Return Law - amend - sales of seated lands for delinquent taxes assessed and levied for the year 1930, or any year prior, where no sales have previously been made for delinquent taxes of that
Act 84 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Prohibiting the payment by counties of costs in criminal cases discharged after preliminary hearings before magistrates, justices of the peace, and alderman, unless names and addresses of prosecutors, defendants,
Act 85 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Beauty culture law
Act 86 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to the extradition of persons charged with crime - amend - Governor of this State authority to deliver up imprisoned persons for the purpose of trial for murder in the demanding State
Act 87 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to salaries, compensation, bonds, offices, and supplies of county officers, their deputies and clerks, in counties of the sixth class - amend - county officers shall be members of the board when matters
Act 88 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Imposing penalties for improper use of food orders issued by or under the authority of the State Emergency Relief Board
Act 89 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth to extend the return days of writs
Act 90 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Beverage License Law
Act 91 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - payment of administrative expenses from excess interest earnings; reduction in the rate of payment to State Annuity Reserve Account Number Two
Act 92 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
City State Highway Law - amend - limit of width of construction and maintenance on said streets
Act 93 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to trusts for charitable or benevolent purposes, and providing for the combining of the same
Act 94 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing and regulating the reorganization of banks and trust companies
Act 95 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act granting power to counties, cities (except of the first and second classes), boroughs, municipalities and school districts in this Commonwealth, which have issued bonds or other interest bearing evidence of indebtedness, to redeem the same and issue n
Act 96 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Employes' Retirement Law - amend - defining "final salary"
Act 97 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Exempting the net amount payable under policies of accident and disability insurance from the claims of creditors
Act 98 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fixing the compensation and mileage of jury commissioners in counties of the sixth class
Act 99 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act creating a Division of Township Highways in the State Highway Department - repeal
Act 100 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Establishing portions of highways lying partially within the corporate limits of cities, boroughs, or incorporated towns as State highways
Act 101 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to provide revenue by imposing a State sales tax upon sales or agreements to sell or memoranda of sale of stock - amend - extending the exemptions from the tax imposed
Act 102 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
An act to regulate and establish the fees to be charges and collected by the several clerks of the courts of oyer and terminer, general jail delivery.
Act 103 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
1933 Beverage Tax Law
Act 104 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Nonprofit Corporation Law
Act 105 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Business Corporation Law
Act 106 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Declaring and adopting the mountain laurel (Kalmia Latifolia) as the State flower of Pennsylvania
Act 107 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Building and Loan Code
Act 108 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Boxing and Wrestling Law - amend - extending to include bookers, booking agents, representatives of booking agencies for services of wrestlers; license fees; exempting amateur boxing or wrestling in schools,
Act 109 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Uniform Automobile Liability Security Act
Act 110 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Department of Banking Code
Act 111 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Banking Code
Act 112 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Investment Business Licensing Law - amend - transfer from the Department of Banking to the Pennsylvania Securities Commission of the rights and duties with respect to the
Act 113 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing directors of building and loan associations to pro rate, or to fix the maximum amount of withdrawals and maturities
Act 114 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Limiting the period within which non-assenting or dissenting shareholders of building and loan associations, which have merged and consolidated, may e
Act 115 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Providing for the reduction by a building and loan association of its liability to shareholders
Act 116 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Providing for the preservation of the records of banks, bank and trust companies, trust companies, savings banks, and private banks
Act 117 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking - amend - requiring building and loan associations to pay full cost of examinations by
Act 118 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - including corporations which have the power to insure owners of real property, mortgagees, and others interested in real property
Act 119 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act prescribing the fees for the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth - amend - increasing and eliminating fees; additional fees to be charged and collected by the
Act 120 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Requiring State-aided hospitals immediately to admit indigent veterans and to provide care and treatment for them until they can be accommodated in Federal institution
Act 121 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To preserve the continuity of service of officers and enlisted men of the Pennsylvania National Guard who were mustered into the service of the United States during
Act 122 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
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.