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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
An act to safeguard human health and life by providing for the licensing and regulation of persons and entities dealing in milk for human consumption - amend - regulating
Act 123 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing municipalities and townships to provide work for unemployed persons by renewing, repairing and replacing sidewalks
Act 124 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to regulate procedure where a defendant desires to have joined, as additional defendants, persons whom he alleges are alone liable or liable over to him for the cause o
Act 125 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Emergency Relief Sales Tax Act - amend - extending the period for payment of part of the tax
Act 126 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Conferring jurisdiction on the Municipal Court of Philadelphia with respect to civil proceedings arising in magistrates' courts - ena
Act 127 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Requiring recorders of deeds to note releases of mortgages on the margin of the record of such mortgages
Act 128 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania - amend - extending to all anthracite mines or collieries that
Act 129 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing repayment to the Federal Unemployment Relief Fund and the State Emergency Relief Board of relief funds paid into the Motor License Fund
Act 130 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act creating the State Emergency Relief Fund - amend - funds received from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or any other Federal agency
Act 131 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, townships of the first and second class, and school districts to issue and sell bonds for certain purposes and for a certain period of time
Act 132 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To require county commissioners, poor boards, public officers, trustees, and others having jurisdiction of funds available for poor or unemployment relief, or to tax or borrow for such purposes, to furnish information and exhibit their records to the Stat
Act 133 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To authorize boroughs and townships of the first class to sue out writs of scire facias on tax liens, where more than five years have elapsed since said liens were filed, and to reduce such liens to judgment
Act 134 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Borough Code - amend - appointment of the county treasurer as tax collector
Act 135 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Borough Code - amend - regulating the affairs of boroughs; requirements regulating publication of auditors' notice
Act 136 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing courts of the common pleas to stay writs of execution against, and tax sales of, certain real property in certain cases
Act 137 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Compact - amend - appointment of engineer by the commission; authorizing the commission to proceed with construction of new bri
Act 138 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to fix the salaries of district attorneys in counties having a population of less than one million inhabitants - amend - fixing the compensation of district att
Act 139 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making it unlawful to retain any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, manuscript, map or other property belonging to a library after notice to return the same
Act 140 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Ratifying and confirming certain contracts for the erection of joint county bridges where the bridges have been erected and accepted - enactmen
Act 141 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to safeguard human health and life by providing for the licensing and regulation of persons and entities dealing in milk for human consumption - amend - limiting the status
Act 142 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing county commissioners to levy taxes to pay bonds issued for poor purposes
Act 143 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act requiring retail dealers in liquid fuels to state the rate of the liquid fuels tax, separately from the price of such liquid fuels - amend - disposition of fine
Act 144 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To abolish the December assessment and registration of voters - enactmen
Act 145 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act providing for a separate ballot when constitutional amendments or other questions are submitted to the vote of the people - amend - constitutional amendments or other questions may be printed upon a separate ballot
Act 146 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To provide reciprocal relations in respect to death duties in taxation of estates of nonresident decedents - enact
Act 147 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - contributions to the retirement fund; retirement age; length of service necessary to entitle members to retirement allowance upon being to
Act 148 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Regulating actions of scire facias sur mechanics liens
Act 149 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to permit the use of voting machines for recording and computing the vote at all elections, at the option of the electors thereof - amend - courts of quarter sessions may order
Act 150 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to provide for the personal registration of electors in cities of the third class of this Commonwealth - amend - changing the hours when registrars are to sit
Act 151 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act for the promotion of medical science by the distribution and use of unclaimed human bodies for scientific purposes - amend - reestablishing the Anatomical Board of the
Act 152 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fixing the pay and mileage of jurors and witnesses
Act 153 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fixing the compensation of property assessors elected for county purposes in boroughs, townships of the second class, and wards
Act 154 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Assessment Law
Act 155 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Commonwealth, the City of Philadelphia, and the State of New Jersey to accept from the Delaware River Joint Commission bonds for the repayment of the
Act 156 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to regulate the sale for agricultural purpose of crushed limestone, lime, gypsum, and related products - amend - sale of all "limiting materials for agricultural purposes";
Act 157 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Pure Food Law - amend - permitting the use of harmless colors in fruits used in fruit cake; use of sulphur dioxide in the preparation of dried fruit and molasses
Act 158 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Game Law - amend - permitting cooperation only in the manner known as driving in the killing of more than one legal deer, bear, or elk in one season by a member at a camp or body of men hunting together so long as the number of deer killed by such ca
Act 159 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
he Game Law - amend - removing the raccoon from the list of fur-bearing animals
Act 160 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - changing the number of trout allowed to be caught in one day
Act 161 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the conveyance to the United States of America of a certain tract of land in or near Petersburg, Virginia
Act 162 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act for the protection of the public health by regulating the possession, control, dealing in, giving away, delivery, dispensing, administering, prescribing, and use of certain drugs, and keeping records thereof - amend - extending to include marihuana
Act 163 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making it unlawful to unnecessarily crop or cut off the ear or ears of dogs
Act 164 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Empowering the Department of Forests and Waters and the Board of Game Commissioners to purchase seated and unseated lands at tax sales held by county treasurers
Act 165 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Supplement to the act regulating elections in this Commonwealth - amend - eliminating one of the days required of registry assessors sitting at the polling places
Act 166 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fixing the compensation of assessors and registry or assistant assessors performing duties pertaining to the assessment and registration of voters in counties other than first
Act 167 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Bakery Law
Act 168 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing cooperative agricultural associations to purchase and improve agricultural land, and lease and stock such land for unemployment relief
Act 169 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Liquid Fuel Tax Act - amend - distributors may deposit bonds of the United States or of this Commonwealth in lieu of surety bonds
Act 170 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to fix the salaries and compensation of the judges of Supreme Court, Superior Court, courts of common pleas, orphans' courts, Municipal Court of Philadelph
Act 171 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making appropriations to the State Emergency Relief Board for direct relief, work relief, and expenses
Act 172 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
o authorize cities of the third class to sue out writs of scire facias on certain municipal claims, where more than five years have elapsed since said claims were filed, and to reduce such claims to judgment
Act 173 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing county treasurers to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver deeds of seated lands sold for delinquent taxes - enactmen
Act 174 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Third Class City Code - amend - vacancies in office; publication of ordinances; deposit of funds by the city treasurer; exemption from advertisement of contracts with the Commonwealth; platoon system for paid men of volunteer fire departments; group
Act 175 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Local Delinquent Tax Return Law - amend - extension of the period during which such taxes shall remain liens on real estate; authorizing the filing of such liens in the
Act 176 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to appoint commissioners to resurvey and mark that portion of the county line which divides the township of Bristol, in the county of Philadelphia, from the township
Act 177 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing the Department of Justice to institute suits to recover from persons, associations, copartnerships, and corporations causing forest fires, the expenses incurred by the Department of Forests and Waters on account of such fires - amend -
Act 178 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act directing the county commissioners of the several counties to offer for sale to the Department of Forestry
Act 179 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - coroner shall act in case the sheriff resigns
Act 180 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to correct certain errors in the original copies of laws
Act 181 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
he General County Law - amend - permitting individual sureties on the bonds of county officers in counties of the sixth, seventh, and eighth classes, and regulating and
Act 182 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - limiting the salary of the solicitor to the controller in counties of the fifth class
Act 183 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - procedure to create the office of county controller, including procedure where decrees have heretofore been entered
Act 184 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - condition of the county treasurer's bond
Act 185 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - procedure to provide for the holding of two or more county offices in certain counties by the same person
Act 186 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - qualification of the first deputy prothonotary in counties of the third class
Act 187 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - compensation of the clerk to the jury commissioners in counties of the sixth class
Act 188 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - depositories of county funds in counties of the third class
Act 189 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - extending to the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Erie, Pennsylvania; authorizing flags to be placed on graves of members of the
Act 190 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - requiring application for payment of allowance for burial of widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines to be m
Act 191 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - county commissioners shall provide for the graves of service men foundations for headstones furnished by the United States Government placed in lots containing the bodies of service men
Act 192 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - authorizing counties to pay the cost of repairing or rebuilding bridges other than county bridges
Act 193 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - authorizing the use of special road taxes for county bridge purposes
Act 194 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - how executions on judgments against counties may be issued
Act 195 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act regulating the confinement of children awaiting trial - amend - management of houses of detention for juveniles in counties of the second class; authorizing the county commissioners to appropriate money or issue bonds for the purchase of lands or
Act 196 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act regulating the confinement of children awaiting trial - amend - management of houses of detention for juveniles in counties of the second class; autho
Act 197 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Mental Health Act of 1923 - amend - permitting sworn statements of physicians in charge of patients to be admitted in evidence in court proceedings for the discharge of patients
Act 198 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fixing the salaries of directors of the poor in counties of the second class - enactmen
Act 199 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to authorize the erection of a Poor House by the township of Wilkes-Barre, in Luzerne County - amend - authorizing the central poor district to create indebte
Act 200 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General Poor Relief Act of 1925 - amend - defining legal settlement, and the liability of poor districts for support
Act 201 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act providing for the relief of poor persons; regulating their settlements in poor districts - amend - defining legal settlement, and the liability of poor districts for support
Act 202 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act relating to and regulating the solicitation of moneys and property for charitable, religious, benevolent, humane, and patriotic purposes - amend - increasing the fee to be charged by the Department of Welfare for certificates of registration
Act 203 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Secretary of Property and Supplies to convey a lot of ground in the possession and occupancy of the Philipsburg State Hospital to the Rush Township Schoo
Act 204 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act fixing the liability of the counties, poor districts, and the Commonwealth for the support of the indigent and partly indigent insane in State institutions - amend - defining the
Act 205 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act 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 burial o
Act 206 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act 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 burial or removal permits - amend - special certificates of the birth of adopted persons
Act 207 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Prohibiting the publication, printing, or radio broadcasting of advertisements of insurance companies, associations, exchanges or persons not authorized to do business in this Commonwealth
Act 208 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - granting hearings before reports of examinations of insurance companies by the Insurance Department are fil
Act 209 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - all premiums and interest charges on account of policies insuring employers against workmen's compensation liability
Act 210 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - fixing the minimum par value of the shares of capital stock of all stock insurance companies
Act 211 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - exempting additional corporations from the provision of subdivision (b) of article six of the act
Act 212 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to policies of indemnity insurance; requiring such policies to contain provisions covering cases of insolvency and bankruptcy of the insured, and to permit injured persons to maintain suits against the insurer in such cases
Act 213 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - bringing public adjusters' solicitors within the retaliatory provisions relating to agents, brokers, and public adjuste
Act 214 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - defining resident agents of certain foreign insurance companies
Act 215 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - regulating the licensing of insurance agents
Act 216 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - requiring the county commissioners to furnish office supplies for county officers not located in county buildings or at the county se
Act 217 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions of an act providing for assistance to certain mother; Mothers' Assistance Fund
Act 218 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Declaring certain agreements between employes and employers and others to be contrary to public policy and void - enactm
Act 219 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fire and Panic Act - amend - fees for licensing of projectionists
Act 220 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fire and Panic Act - amend - authorizing the Department of Labor and Industry to charge for the cost of making examinations of plans, and eliminating dupli
Act 221 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Elevator Regulation Law - amend - fixing the fees for the approval of plans of elevators
Act 222 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.