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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.

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1,819 laws of the 1930s

Constitution of 1874

  1. 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

  2. Authorizing municipalities and townships to provide work for unemployed persons by renewing, repairing and replacing sidewalks

    Act 124 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  3. 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

  4. Emergency Relief Sales Tax Act - amend - extending the period for payment of part of the tax

    Act 126 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. The Borough Code - amend - appointment of the county treasurer as tax collector

    Act 135 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  14. The Borough Code - amend - regulating the affairs of boroughs; requirements regulating publication of auditors' notice

    Act 136 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Authorizing county commissioners to levy taxes to pay bonds issued for poor purposes

    Act 143 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  22. 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

  23. To abolish the December assessment and registration of voters - enactmen

    Act 145 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  24. 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

  25. To provide reciprocal relations in respect to death duties in taxation of estates of nonresident decedents - enact

    Act 147 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  26. 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

  27. Regulating actions of scire facias sur mechanics liens

    Act 149 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. Fixing the pay and mileage of jurors and witnesses

    Act 153 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  32. 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

  33. The General County Assessment Law

    Act 155 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. he Game Law - amend - removing the raccoon from the list of fur-bearing animals

    Act 160 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. Making it unlawful to unnecessarily crop or cut off the ear or ears of dogs

    Act 164 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. Bakery Law

    Act 168 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. Making appropriations to the State Emergency Relief Board for direct relief, work relief, and expenses

    Act 172 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. 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

  58. The General County Law - amend - coroner shall act in case the sheriff resigns

    Act 180 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  59. Authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to correct certain errors in the original copies of laws

    Act 181 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  60. 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

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. The General County Law - amend - condition of the county treasurer's bond

    Act 185 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  64. 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

  65. The General County Law - amend - qualification of the first deputy prothonotary in counties of the third class

    Act 187 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  66. 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

  67. The General County Law - amend - depositories of county funds in counties of the third class

    Act 189 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  68. 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

  69. 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

  70. 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

  71. 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

  72. The General County Law - amend - authorizing the use of special road taxes for county bridge purposes

    Act 194 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  73. The General County Law - amend - how executions on judgments against counties may be issued

    Act 195 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. Fixing the salaries of directors of the poor in counties of the second class - enactmen

    Act 199 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. 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

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - defining resident agents of certain foreign insurance companies

    Act 215 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  94. The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - regulating the licensing of insurance agents

    Act 216 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. 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

  98. Fire and Panic Act - amend - fees for licensing of projectionists

    Act 220 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  99. 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

  100. Elevator Regulation Law - amend - fixing the fees for the approval of plans of elevators

    Act 222 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

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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.