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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. Establishing as State highways condemned or abandoned turnpikes

    Act 327 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  2. Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - defining the liability of public or charitable bodies, corporations and institutions to pay workmen's compensation to persons injured in work relief employment and to carry insurance therefor, and the rights of persons

    Act 328 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  3. Providing for the appointment by the court of quarter sessions of the directors of the poor of the Erie County Poor District, and abolishing the elected directors

    Act 329 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  4. First Class City Government Law - amend - changing the order in which officers of such cities shall act as mayor in case of vacancy or disability of the mayor to

    Act 330 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  5. aking an appropriation out of the Motor License Fund to the Department of Highways for allocation to and expenditure in the various political subdivisions of the Commonwealth for the maintenance of streets and roads during the calendar years 1934-1935, an

    Act 331 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  6. Authorizing the appointment of a commission to make a survey of the construction and maintenance of public roads, streets, highways and bridges within the Commonwe

    Act 332 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  7. The Public Service Company Law - amend - regulating the issuance, disposal, and guaranty of, or assumption of liability on, securities by public service companies; changes in

    Act 333 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  8. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

  9. Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Floor Tax Law

    Act 1 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  10. To provide for the expense of the extraordinary session of the Legislature assembled November thirteenth, 1933

    Act 2 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  11. Creating an independent administrative board to be known as the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board

    Act 3 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  12. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Act

    Act 4 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  13. Act authorizing the Department of Highways to arrange with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for advancement of funds to finance the construction of toll bridges - amend - authorizing similar arrangements to be made with other agencies of the

    Act 5 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  14. Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Tax Law

    Act 6 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  15. Beverage Tax Law - amend - restricting the provisions to malt liquors

    Act 7 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  16. Authorizing the abatement of certain tax penalties and interest on city taxes in cities of the first class and on school taxes in school districts of the first class

    Act 8 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  17. Alcohol Permit Law - amend - administered by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; consistent with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment; bringing rectifiers and blenders within the act; appeals; abatements of nuisances; fees

    Act 9 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  18. The Public Service Company Law - amend - authorizing the commission in special cases to grant relief to common carriers from the long and short haul and the aggregate of intermediate rates provisions

    Act 10 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  19. Authorizing officers, departments, boards and commissions of the Commonwealth, and also cities, counties, boroughs, incorporated towns, townships, school districts and poor districts, to cancel supply contracts, and to relieve contractors of obligations -

    Act 11 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  20. To enable city, county, poor, ward, school, borough, and township tax collectors, or either surety or sureties, to collect taxes for the payment of which they have become personally liable, without having collected the same, by the expiration of the autho

    Act 12 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  21. Act to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth - amend - appropriations for the payment of expenses of the General Assembly convened in extraordinary session on November 13, 1933

    Act 13 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  22. Beverage License Law - amend - limiting the provisions to malt liquors

    Act 14 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  23. Appropriating the moneys in The State Stores Fund

    Act 15 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  24. Making an appropriation out of the General Fund to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board for the administration and enforcement of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act

    Act 16 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  25. Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Tax Law - amend - section three, clause (b), and section nineteen and twenty-three

    Act 17 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  26. Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Floor Tax Law - amend - extension of time for payment

    Act 18 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  27. Department of Banking Code - amend - limiting the exemption of private bankers; powers of the Secretary of Banking as receiver of corporations and persons under his supervision

    Act 20 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  28. Approving the proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States relative to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age - joint resolution

    Act 21 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  29. Authorizing the Governor to accept funds from agencies of the Federal Government for construction of public works

    Act 22 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  30. Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies to act as purchasing agency for Federal agencies

    Act 23 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  31. Reducing to five days the period during which municipal subdivisions of the Commonwealth are required to advertise notice of proposed awards of contracts for articles to be used on projects financed by the Federal Civil Works Administration

    Act 24 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  32. Providing for the construction of a tunnel or tunnels between the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Delaware River

    Act 25 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  33. Accepting the provisions of an act of Congress for the establishment of a national employment system and authorizing the Department of Labor and Industry to cooperate with the Federal Employment Service under that act

    Act 26 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  34. Making home loan bonds issued by the Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation legal investments for trust funds and other purposes

    Act 27 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  35. The Borough Code - amend - lengthening the time for which assessment bonds for street and sewer improvements may be issued; notice where sewer-works are constructed without the limits of a borough

    Act 28 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  36. Authorizing the State Treasurer to act as custodian of moneys and securities contributed to or deposited with the Commonwealth, or officers, departments, boards or commissions of the Commonwealth

    Act 29 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  37. Providing for the creation of public "Authorities" in counties of the second class

    Act 30 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  38. Authorizing counties, poor districts, boroughs, towns, townships and school districts having moneys borrowed for one purpose to use the same for other purposes which will aid recovery from existing economic depression

    Act 31 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  39. Banking Code - amend - regulating the establishment and maintenance of branch banks, offices, and agencies

    Act 32 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  40. Banking Code - amend - powers and limitations upon the acts of corporations and persons authorized to engage in a banking or a fiduciary business, and of affiliates of such corporations or persons, and of officers, directors, trustees, and employes of suc

    Act 33 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  41. The Permanent Registration Act in Cities of the Second Class A

    Act 35 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  42. Authorizing the State Treasurer and the Department of Highways to accept funds from the Federal Government for the construction of public highways and bridges and related projects

    Act 36 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  43. Milk Control Board Law

    Act 37 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  44. Malt Liquor Tax Law - amend - refund of taxes paid on malt liquors

    Act 38 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  45. Requiring the Department of Property and Supplies to provide and install appliances to air condition the State Capital building and the Halls of the Senate and House of Representatives, and to regulate temperatures therein

    Act 39 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  46. To regulate the sale and delivery of coal, coke, petroleum coke, briquettes, and other solid fuels

    Act 40 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  47. Authorizing officers, departments, boards and commissions of any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, and cities, counties, boroughs, incorporated towns, townships, schools districts, to make adjustments with certain supply contractors to reimburse

    Act 41 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  48. Authorizing the issue and sale of bonds by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to defray the cost of the acquisition of toll bridges

    Act 42 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  49. Act empowering the Department of Highways to acquire toll bridges within the Commonwealth - amend - extending to all toll bridges wholly within the Commonwealth; payment of the cost of acquiring such bridges out of the Toll Bridge Fund; the construction,

    Act 43 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  50. Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania - amend - empowering mine inspectors to inspect mines where 2-5 persons are employed or engaged in work; require proper safety measures

    Act 44 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  51. State Highway Department Law - amend - payment by the county of damages agreed upon without hearing before court when exceptions are filed to agreement

    Act 46 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  52. Making an appropriation to the Department of Military Affairs for the purchase of supplies, materials, and equipment to improve the Military Reservation at Indiantown Gap - enactment Making an appropriation from the General Fund to the Department of Milit

    Act 47 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  53. Authorizing the issue and sale of bonds by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the payment of compensation to veterans; creating the Veterans' Compensation Fund

    Act 52 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  54. Veterans' Compensation Act

    Act 53 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  55. Making an appropriation from the General Fund for the payment of the preparation and issue and sale of bonds authorized by the adoption of Constitutional Amendment Number Four

    Act 54 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  56. Workmen's' Compensation Act of 1915 - amend - making it unlawful for an employer to accept a receipt showing the payment of compensation when in fact no such payment has been made

    Act 55 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  57. Workmen's' Compensation Act of 1915 - amend - requiring every compensation agreement to be executed in triplicate and one copy thereof to be sent by the board to the employe

    Act 56 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  58. 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 - extending to all milk; making acceptance of municipal permits optional with the Secretary of Healt

    Act 57 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  59. Further supplement to the act regulating elections in the Commonwealth - amend - eliminating the tax-paying qualification for voters

    Act 58 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  60. To protect the owners of mortgaged property during the present emergency by limiting the amount of deficiency judgments

    Act 59 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  61. Making appropriations out of The State Stores Fund to the Department of Welfare for pensions for the blind

    Act 60 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  62. Providing for and regulating pensions for blind persons, and the administration of this act by the Department of Welfare, the trustees who administer mothers' assistance in the several counties, or by other trustees

    Act 61 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  63. The Permanent Registration Act in Cities of the Second Class

    Act 62 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  64. General Appropriation Act of 1933 - amend - additional appropriations to administrative departments

    Act 63 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  65. Making an appropriation out of The State Stores Fund to the Department of Welfare for old age assistance

    Act 65 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  66. Making appropriations out of The State Stores Fund to the State Emergency Relief Board for direct relief, work relief, and expenses, including reimbursement of municipal subdivisions for expenditures in connection with work relief projects

    Act 66 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  67. General Appropriation Act of 1933 - amend - additional appropriations to the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth

    Act 67 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  68. Concurrent Resolution

    Act 69 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  69. Act fixing the pay of election officers and clerks in counties of the second class - amend - fixing the compensation of judges of election for services, mileage and expenses of delivering the primary and election returns and ballot boxes into proper custo

    Act 235 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  70. City State Highway Law - amend - changing routes and adding rout

    Act 326 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text

  71. Transferring money from the State Insurance Fund to the General Fund

    Act 1 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  72. Transferring money from the Manufacturing Fund to the General Fund

    Act 2 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  73. Transferring money from the Motor License Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return

    Act 3 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  74. Transferring money from the Liquid Fuels Tax Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return

    Act 4 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  75. Transferring money from the Liquor License Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return

    Act 5 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  76. Transferring money from the Fire Insurance Tax Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return

    Act 6 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  77. Transferring money from the State School Fund to the General Fund; liquidate the investments in the State School Fund; subsequent return

    Act 7 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  78. Appropriation to the State Emergency Relief Board for direct relief, including old age assistance, work relief, and expenses

    Act 8 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  79. Provide for the expenses of the extraordinary session of the Legislature 1934

    Act 9 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text

  80. Authorizing the adjournment and readjournment of any county treasurers' sales of seated and unseated lands to be held in the years 1935-1936

    Act 1 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  81. Veterans' Compensation Act - amend - payment of compensation of veterans hospitalized for nervous or mental diseases

    Act 2 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  82. Authorize cities of the third class, boroughs, and townships to sue out writs of scire facias on certain municipal claims, or to revive judgements on such claims, where more than five years have elapsed since said claims were filed or such judgments were

    Act 3 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  83. The Borough Code - amend - authorizing boroughs to acquire, maintain, and operate inclined plane passenger and vehicular traffic transportation facilities

    Act 4 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  84. Act authorizing courts of common pleas to stay writs of execution against, and tax sales of, certain real property - amend - extending for two years; exempting mortgages issued under the National Housing Act

    Act 5 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  85. Validating contracts, conveyances, etc., of unregistered first class corporations

    Act 6 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  86. Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, townships, poor districts, school districts, or other municipalities or incorporated districts to rent, lease, and hire, suitable office and warehousing space

    Act 7 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  87. The General County Law - amend - amplifying the powers of the retirement board in counties of the second class; increasing the contributions of such counties, county poor districts, and employes; restricting rights to retire for disability

    Act 8 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  88. The Insurance Company Law - amend - classifying foreign mutual fire, mutual marine, or mutual fire and marine companies for the purpose of licensing and relicensing and providing requirements

    Act 9 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  89. The Borough Code - amend - joint sewer improvements

    Act 10 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  90. The Third Class City Code - amend - joint sewer improvements

    Act 11 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  91. The Second Class Township Code - amend - joint sewer improvements

    Act 12 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  92. The First Class Township Code - amend - joint sewer improvements

    Act 13 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  93. Validating amicable writs of scire facias to revive municipal claims entered by boroughs and townships of the first class where more than five years have elapsed since the original claims were filed, or a prior revival thereof made

    Act 14 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  94. First Class City Government Law - amend - reinstatement of certain policemen and firemen; restricting the powers of the civil service commission

    Act 15 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  95. Act authorizing officers, departments, boards, and commissions of any political subdivision of the Commonwealth to make adjustments with supply contractors to reimburse losses sustained in performance of contracts - amend - limitations on adjustments

    Act 16 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  96. Third Class County Assessment Board Law - amend - individual written or printed notice of assessed valuation for triennial years shall be given to property owners alone

    Act 17 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  97. 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 18 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  98. The Permanent Registration Act in Cities of the Second Class - amend - conduct of elections and primaries; challenge and proof of qualifications of electors

    Act 19 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  99. Act to enable persons, associations, partnerships and corporations engaged in farming, and raising, breeding, fattening, and marketing livestock, to borrow money and secure the repayment thereof by the execution and recordation of chattel mortgages on

    Act 20 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

  100. Permit certain cooperative associations to give chattel mortgages to secure loans from banks for cooperatives or from Federal intermediate credit banks

    Act 21 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text

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