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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
Providing for receipt by the Commonwealth of personal property bequeathed to the Commonwealth
Act 223 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Aeronautical Code
Act 224 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act appropriating the moneys in the Motor License Fund - amend - making the moneys in the Motor License Fund available for administering the laws, rules, and regulatio
Act 225 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to aeronautics; providing for the maintenance and operation of intermediate landing fields and air navigation facilities by the Commonwealth or in cooperation with the United States Government or political subdivisions of the Commonwealth - enact
Act 226 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making an appropriation out of the Motor License Fund to the Department of Property and Supplies to assist in the development of aeronautics
Act 227 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To authorize incorporated towns to secure lands for the purpose of establishing and maintaining municipal airports, airdromes, aviation landing fields, intermediate landing fields, and airport facilities
Act 228 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the compromise of tax claims or real property purchased by the county on county treasurers' sales for nonpayment of taxes
Act 229 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to seated lands purchased by county commissioners at county treasurer's sale of seated lands for collection of taxes; authorizing the county commissioner
Act 230 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Divorce Law - amend - libels to include additional grounds for divorce; service of notice of hearing on correspondents; alimony pendente lite in cases of divorce fro
Act 231 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Requiring county treasurers, excepting counties of the first and second class, to make monthly settlements with all cities, boroughs, townships, school districts and poor boards within the county for all delinquent taxes, penalties, fines and costs collec
Act 232 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Department of Highways to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Highway Commission of the State of New Jersey for the construction of a free bridge across the Delaware River at or near Yardley
Act 233 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
First Class City Government Law - amend - transferring the care, management, administration, and supervision, of electrical lighting from the department of public safety to the department of public works
Act 234 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Cooperative Agricultural Credit Association Law
Act 236 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Continuing the joint legislative committee created to study the production and marketing of milk - joint res
Act 237 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to require all magistrates and other officials in cities of the first, second and third class, authorized to take acknowledgements and administer oaths, to perform such
Act 238 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Dog Law of 1921 - amend - fee for killing dogs and disposing of their carcasses; appraisement for damages to live stock and poultry shall be made by an agent of th
Act 239 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To safeguard human health and life in counties of the second class by providing for the licensing and regulation of persons, municipalities, and entities eng
Act 240 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act regulating the removal or dismissal of policemen and firemen in cities of the second class A - amend - extending to policemen of cities of the second
Act 241 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Second Class City Firemen Relief Law
Act 242 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fiduciaries Act of 1917 - amend - action by the natural guardian for the minor, upon leave of court and without formal appointment, in matters relating to real estate in which the share of the minor does not exceed two hundred dollars
Act 243 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing plaintiffs in actions on written instruments to join as defendants persons severally or jointly liable thereon - e
Act 244 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Vehicle Code - amend - continuance of a lien on motor vehicles where ownership is changed by operation of law or judicial sale; effect of the insurance of a certificate of title showing a lien or encumbrance
Act 245 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Vehicle Code - amend - transfer of registration from husband and wife to either spouse
Act 246 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Vehicle Code - amend - sale of statistics relating to the titling and registration of motor vehicles
Act 247 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, and townships to incur indebtedness and issue bonds
Act 249 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, and townships to incur indebtedness and issue bonds
Act 250 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - regulating the creation of union school
Act 251 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - directors when district enters a new class
Act 252 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - conditions upon which school directors may be employed by their respective school districts during the term for which they are elected or
Act 253 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - authorizing school districts to lay water pipe lines; condemn a right of
Act 254 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Fixing the minimum salaries of county and assistant county superintendents for the term which will begin on the first Monday of July 1934
Act 255 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing and empowering school districts of the first class to furnish food, including milk, to undernourished and poor school children in their districts - enac
Act 256 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General Poor Relief Act of 1925 - amend - requiring poor districts to pay premiums on treasurers' bonds; depositories for funds of poor districts coterminus with c
Act 257 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Game Law - amend - identification of persons applying for licenses
Act 258 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act providing for the licensure and regulation of private nursing homes and private hospitals - amend - license fee to be collected by the Department of Welfare
Act 259 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To provide for the organization, incorporation, operation, and supervision of cooperative savings and credit associations, to be termed credit unions - en
Act 260 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Boxing and Wrestling Law - amend - increasing license fees
Act 261 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making an appropriation for unemployment relief contingently upon the approval by the voters of a constitutional amendment
Act 262 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the State Treasurer to transfer sums of money between the Motor License Fund and the General Fund
Act 263 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Vehicle Code - amend - requiring motor vehicles to be equipped with safety glass; suspension or revocation by the Public Service Commission of certificates
Act 264 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To abolish the action of account render
Act 265 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To abolish the action of dower
Act 266 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To abolish the action of detinue
Act 267 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Tax Act - amend - defining deductions in case of reinsuranc
Act 268 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - defining deductions in case of reinsurance
Act 269 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The First Class Township Code - amend - regulating advertising; fixing the voting powers at county conventions of township officers; security to be given by depositori
Act 270 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act regulating certain political parties - amend - increasing the number of signers required for nomination petitions for magistrates in cities of the first c
Act 271 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Providing for the appointment, promotion, reduction, removal and reinstatement of paid officers, firemen and employes of fire departments, fire alarm operato
Act 272 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Declaring it to be a misdemeanor for accountants or auditors to issue, or permit to be issued, false financial statements
Act 273 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
For the protection of the public health and to prevent fraud and deception in the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale, and having in possession with intent to
Act 274 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Boat Law - amend - transferring powers and duties from the Board of Fish Commissioners to the Department of Revenue; licensing and regulation of motor boats; liability
Act 275 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Requiring certain persons, associations, copartnerships, and corporations to keep full accounts and records with respect to the sales and transactions relating to dairy
Act 276 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Tax Act - amend - time of making report
Act 277 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to provide revenue by levying a tax upon the shares of stock of companies incorporated - amend - procedure for the settlement, collection and payment of the State tax on t
Act 278 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Adjourning county treasurers sales of seated and unseated lands in counties of the fourth class to be held in the year 1933 until the time fixed by law for such sales in the ye
Act 279 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Relating to the collection of delinquent county taxes in counties of the second class
Act 280 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Fire Marshal Law - repeal - sections six and eight
Act 282 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act for the assignment of judges to districts other than their own, for purpose of expediting business - amend - assignment of judges to districts other than their own, and requiring such judges to itemize their expenses in reports filed with the Auditor
Act 283 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The General County Law - amend - authorizing counties of the second class to levy and collect tolls on certain county bridges for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness incurred locating, construction and purchasing such bridges
Act 284 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Sheriffs' Fee Bill
Act 285 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to enable the Governor to appoint Notaries Public - amend - presence of the arms of this Commonwealth on the seal of a notary public reappointed after the effective date of the act, and prior to the effective date of this act, shall not invalidate sai
Act 286 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to provide revenue by imposing a mercantile license tax on venders of or dealers in goods, wares and merchandise - amend - exempting retail venders or retail dealers engaged in compounding and dispensing medicines on prescriptions of physicians
Act 287 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Public School Code - amend - payment of temporary indebtedness from current revenue; refunding indebtedness; depositing of collateral security in lieu of surety bonds; tuition of nonresident pupils; special education obligation upon the Department of
Act 288 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To establish as a State highway a section of public road in the county of Lackawanna
Act 289 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Borough State Highway Law
Act 290 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Township State Highway Law - amend - changing routes and adding routes
Act 291 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Establishing certain public roads and streets as State highways
Act 292 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Highway Department Law - amend - construction, reconstruction and maintenance of bridges forming parts of State highways in boroughs and incorporated towns by th
Act 293 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Attorney General to enter into agreements to collect claims from boroughs for the maintenance of State highways in installments after such claims have been reduced to judgment
Act 294 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Highway Department Law - amend - authorizing the Attorney General to enter into agreements with townships for payment judgment against such township installments
Act 295 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing the Secretary of Highways to enter into agreements relating to support for State highway right of ways underlaid by coal
Act 296 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Authorizing agreements between the Department of Highways and local authorities to provide for the construction and maintenance of streets and highways in cities, counties,
Act 297 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act providing for the relocation and change of width, grades and lines of State highways in boroughs by the Secretary of Highways - amend - extending to incorporated town
Act 298 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing the Secretary of Highways to establish, construct and maintain roads parallel to existing State highways, in order to relieve traffic congestion - amend - roa
Act 299 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act authorizing the Secretary of Highways to establish the width and lines of State highways for future construction where it appears uneconomical to widen existing highways - amend - maintenance of existing highway
Act 300 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Dedicating and setting aside lands in Cameron and Clinton Counties as a public park and pleasure-ground, to be known as "Bucktail State Park" - enactmen
Act 301 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Exempting household furniture and household goods, leased, hired or conditionally sold, from levy and sale on execution or distress for rent - enac
Act 302 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to further amend an act to provide revenue by imposing a mercantile license tax on venders of or dealers in goods, wares and merchandise
Act 303 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Exempting shoe repairing machinery and tools and the appurtenances thereto, leased, loaned, hired or conditionally sold from levy or sale on execution or distress for re
Act 304 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - permitting and regulating the use of eel chutes
Act 305 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act to fix the salary and mileage of members of the General Assembly - amend - decreasing the compensation of members of the General Assembly and the amount they s
Act 306 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To validate sheriffs' deeds acknowledged previous to the return day of the writ by virtue of which the real estate was sold, or acknowledged defectively
Act 307 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Permitting musicians to receive compensation for services rendered on Sunday
Act 308 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Vehicle Code - amend - change in regulating the registration of foreign motor vehicles and licensing of foreign operat
Act 309 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To validate certain proceedings for municipal improvements, municipal assessments, municipal claims, and municipal liens, in the several cities of the third class, boroughs and townships of the first class of this Commonwealth
Act 310 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Juvenile Court Law
Act 311 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Juvenile Court Law of Allegheny County
Act 312 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Employes' Retirement Law - amend - opening the system further for original members; preserving the rights of retired State employes who reenter State servic
Act 313 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Making an appropriation out of Motor License Fund for use of State Bridge Commission
Act 314 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Validating certain proceedings of borough councils pursuant to the Borough Code
Act 315 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To ratify, confirm, and validate, as debts of the municipality, bonds and obligations issued by municipal corporations for the payment of the cost of a public improvement which were to rest alone for their security and payment upon assessments for benefit
Act 316 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Validating sheriff's sales of real estate on judgments of foreclosure in scire facias sur mortgage cases when the release of the mortgagor from liability was not filed with th
Act 317 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
To validate sales of mortgaged real estate made by sheriffs on writs of fieri facias without inquisition where the sales were made under judgments upon the bonds, not containing waivers of inquisition, accompanying such mortgages
Act 318 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - reimbursement of the General Fund by the special operating funds for services rendered by the Department of Property and Supplies, and for space occupied in the Capital buildings by departments, boards, and
Act 319 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Administrative Code of 1929 - amend -fixing of the amount of the bonds of the heads of administrative departments
Act 320 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - increasing the membership of the State Military Reservation Commission
Act 321 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
The Fiscal Code - amend - eliminating the duty of the Department of the Auditor General to audit the affairs of the State Workmen's Insurance Board; defining the lien of the Commonwealth for taxes; tax reports; defining the maximum aggregate cash balance
Act 322 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Act appropriating the moneys in the Motor License Fund - amend - making the moneys in the Motor License Fund available for the reimbursement of the General Fund for services rendered, and for the maintenance of the State Highway Patrol
Act 323 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
State Workmen's Insurance Fund Law - amend - making the moneys in the State Workmen's Insurance Fund available for the reimbursement of the General Fund for service
Act 324 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Establishing public roads and streets in the city of Pittsburgh and county of Allegheny as a State highway
Act 325 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.