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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. Providing for receipt by the Commonwealth of personal property bequeathed to the Commonwealth

    Act 223 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  2. The Aeronautical Code

    Act 224 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Cooperative Agricultural Credit Association Law

    Act 236 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  14. Continuing the joint legislative committee created to study the production and marketing of milk - joint res

    Act 237 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Second Class City Firemen Relief Law

    Act 242 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. The Vehicle Code - amend - transfer of registration from husband and wife to either spouse

    Act 246 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  24. The Vehicle Code - amend - sale of statistics relating to the titling and registration of motor vehicles

    Act 247 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  25. Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, and townships to incur indebtedness and issue bonds

    Act 249 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  26. Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, and townships to incur indebtedness and issue bonds

    Act 250 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  27. Public School Code - amend - regulating the creation of union school

    Act 251 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  28. Public School Code - amend - directors when district enters a new class

    Act 252 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  29. 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

  30. Public School Code - amend - authorizing school districts to lay water pipe lines; condemn a right of

    Act 254 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. Game Law - amend - identification of persons applying for licenses

    Act 258 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. Boxing and Wrestling Law - amend - increasing license fees

    Act 261 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  38. Making an appropriation for unemployment relief contingently upon the approval by the voters of a constitutional amendment

    Act 262 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. To abolish the action of account render

    Act 265 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  42. To abolish the action of dower

    Act 266 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  43. To abolish the action of detinue

    Act 267 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  44. Tax Act - amend - defining deductions in case of reinsuranc

    Act 268 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  45. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - defining deductions in case of reinsurance

    Act 269 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. Tax Act - amend - time of making report

    Act 277 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. Relating to the collection of delinquent county taxes in counties of the second class

    Act 280 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  57. State Fire Marshal Law - repeal - sections six and eight

    Act 282 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. Sheriffs' Fee Bill

    Act 285 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. To establish as a State highway a section of public road in the county of Lackawanna

    Act 289 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  65. Borough State Highway Law

    Act 290 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  66. Township State Highway Law - amend - changing routes and adding routes

    Act 291 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  67. Establishing certain public roads and streets as State highways

    Act 292 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  68. 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

  69. 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

  70. 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

  71. 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

  72. 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

  73. 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

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - permitting and regulating the use of eel chutes

    Act 305 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. Permitting musicians to receive compensation for services rendered on Sunday

    Act 308 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. The Juvenile Court Law

    Act 311 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  87. Juvenile Court Law of Allegheny County

    Act 312 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  88. 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

  89. Making an appropriation out of Motor License Fund for use of State Bridge Commission

    Act 314 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  90. Validating certain proceedings of borough councils pursuant to the Borough Code

    Act 315 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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

  96. The Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - increasing the membership of the State Military Reservation Commission

    Act 321 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  97. 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

  98. 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

  99. 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

  100. 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

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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.