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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
Establishing as State highways condemned or abandoned turnpikes
Act 327 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
Concurrent Resolutions
Resolution of 1933 · 1933 · Original text
Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Floor Tax Law
Act 1 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
Creating an independent administrative board to be known as the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
Act 3 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Act
Act 4 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Tax Law
Act 6 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
Beverage Tax Law - amend - restricting the provisions to malt liquors
Act 7 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beverage License Law - amend - limiting the provisions to malt liquors
Act 14 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
Appropriating the moneys in The State Stores Fund
Act 15 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
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
Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Floor Tax Law - amend - extension of time for payment
Act 18 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Providing for the creation of public "Authorities" in counties of the second class
Act 30 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
Banking Code - amend - regulating the establishment and maintenance of branch banks, offices, and agencies
Act 32 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
The Permanent Registration Act in Cities of the Second Class A
Act 35 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
Milk Control Board Law
Act 37 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
Malt Liquor Tax Law - amend - refund of taxes paid on malt liquors
Act 38 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Veterans' Compensation Act
Act 53 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Permanent Registration Act in Cities of the Second Class
Act 62 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
General Appropriation Act of 1933 - amend - additional appropriations to administrative departments
Act 63 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
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
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
Concurrent Resolution
Act 69 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
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
City State Highway Law - amend - changing routes and adding rout
Act 326 of 1933 (Special Session 1) · 1933 · Original text
Transferring money from the State Insurance Fund to the General Fund
Act 1 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
Transferring money from the Manufacturing Fund to the General Fund
Act 2 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
Transferring money from the Motor License Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return
Act 3 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
Transferring money from the Liquid Fuels Tax Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return
Act 4 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
Transferring money from the Liquor License Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return
Act 5 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
Transferring money from the Fire Insurance Tax Fund to the General Fund; subsequent return
Act 6 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
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
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
Provide for the expenses of the extraordinary session of the Legislature 1934
Act 9 of 1934 (Special Session 1) · 1934 · Original text
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
Veterans' Compensation Act - amend - payment of compensation of veterans hospitalized for nervous or mental diseases
Act 2 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
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
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
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
Validating contracts, conveyances, etc., of unregistered first class corporations
Act 6 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
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
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
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
The Borough Code - amend - joint sewer improvements
Act 10 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
The Third Class City Code - amend - joint sewer improvements
Act 11 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
The Second Class Township Code - amend - joint sewer improvements
Act 12 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
The First Class Township Code - amend - joint sewer improvements
Act 13 of 1935 · 1935 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.