Friday, October 30, 2026Verify to vote
The 1776 Philadelphia ConstitutionThe laws of the land, set down plainly — and put to the people, one provision at a time.

The Pennsylvania Register

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.

Clear

2,985 laws of the 1950s

Constitution of 1874

  1. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - veterans ballots, military ballots, summer primary, notice of offices for which candidates are to be elected, nomination petition

    Act 1 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  2. General Assembly officers and employes law - amend - compensation, appropriation

    Act 2 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  3. Uniform Acknowledgment Act - amend - powers of deputy recorders of deeds, validation

    Act 3 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  4. State Council of Civil Defense Act of 1951

    Act 4 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  5. Air Raid Precautions Act - amend - State Council of Civil Defense

    Act 5 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  6. Civil defense appropriations law

    Act 6 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  7. Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact law

    Act 7 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  8. First Class City Home Rule Act - amend - publication of charter proposals and amendments

    Act 8 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  9. Volunteer fire company special fire police law - amend - Pennsylvania State Police

    Act 9 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  10. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in City of Harrisburg to Harrisburg Hospital

    Act 10 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  11. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Donegal Township, Washington County

    Act 11 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  12. Juror and witness compensation and mileage law - amend - juror compensation

    Act 12 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  13. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, to United States of America

    Act 13 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  14. Fireworks Law - amend - Pennsylvania State Police

    Act 14 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  15. Sabotage Prevention Act - amend - penalties, murder in first degree, period of national emergency or war, restricted highways, unlawful entry

    Act 15 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  16. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - medical examiner

    Act 16 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  17. Statutory Construction Act - amend - osteopath, osteopathic surgeon, physician

    Act 17 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  18. Licensure attestation law

    Act 18 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  19. Unlicensed entity injunction proceedings law

    Act 19 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  20. Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951

    Act 20 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  21. Liquor Code

    Act 21 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  22. Banking Code - amend - names

    Act 22 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  23. Fish Law of 1925 - amend - pickerel length

    Act 23 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  24. Game Law - amend - transporting big game

    Act 24 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  25. Nonprofit corporation instruments validation law

    Act 25 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  26. Banking Code - amend - conversion into national banks

    Act 26 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  27. Banking Code - amend - merger or consolidation

    Act 27 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  28. Veterans Administration Hospital Federal acquisition consent law

    Act 28 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  29. Acquisition - stone amphitheater on Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan School grounds

    Act 29 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  30. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - overhead cost per pupil

    Act 30 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  31. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - travel expenses

    Act 31 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  32. Public Utility Law - amend - transportation of pulpwood or chemical wood from woodlots

    Act 32 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  33. Cooperative fish restoration projects assent law

    Act 33 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  34. First class township annexation law - reenact - petition, election, apportionment, indebtedness

    Act 34 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  35. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - investments

    Act 35 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  36. Fifth through eighth class county retirement law - amend - county employe, board membership and officers, option period

    Act 36 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  37. First Class Township Code - amend - sewer bonds, one-time sale of non-debt bonds

    Act 37 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  38. First class school district revenue law - reenact and amend - continuing tax provisions, deleting certain applicability and effective provisions

    Act 38 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  39. Foreign Casualty Insurance Premium Tax Allocation Law - reenact and amend - county police pension funds

    Act 39 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  40. First Class Township Code - amend - contracts and purchases, evasion of advertising requirements, penalties

    Act 40 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  41. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - notice of sale, return to court

    Act 41 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  42. The General County Law - amend - audit of accounts of National Guard organizations by county controller or auditor

    Act 42 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  43. Third Class City Code - amend - audit of accounts of National Guard organizations by city controller

    Act 43 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  44. First, second and second A class cities National Guard support law - amend - audit of accounts of National Guard organizations by city controller

    Act 44 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  45. First Class School District Business Tax Act - amend - continuing provisions, certain stock exemptions

    Act 45 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  46. Local Tax Collection Law - amend - taxing authorities authorized to add names to assessment lists and duplicates

    Act 46 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  47. First Class Township Code - amend - investment of sinking fund moneys

    Act 47 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  48. Honorable dischargee driver's license renewal law

    Act 48 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  49. Game Law - amend - possession of loaded firearms and cartridges or shells for hunting in vehicles

    Act 49 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  50. Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Law

    Act 50 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  51. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - pupil transportation payments where school buses are used for better gradation

    Act 51 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  52. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - unexpired term of school board member, election of officers

    Act 52 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  53. First Class Township Code - amend - special school police

    Act 53 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  54. Game Law - amend - semiautomatic shotguns to hunt and kill small game, predators and unprotected birds

    Act 54 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  55. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - recorded vote to adopt annual budget

    Act 55 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  56. Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law - amend - revival of municipal claims, lien reinstatement

    Act 56 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  57. Parking Authority Law - amend - first class boroughs and townships

    Act 57 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  58. World War II Veterans' Compensation Act - amend - filing extension

    Act 58 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  59. Board of school directors contract validation law

    Act 59 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  60. Second and fourth class county fire training school law

    Act 60 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  61. Enforcement Officer Disability Benefits Law - amend - park guards

    Act 61 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  62. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - first class city councilman petition, nomination petitions in new electoral districts

    Act 62 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  63. First Class City Permanent Registration Act - amend - registration, correction of registers, street lists

    Act 63 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  64. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - court-ordered sales, extending time limit for sale of certain properties

    Act 64 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  65. Third Class County Assessment Board Law - amend - additional compensation of subordinate assessors

    Act 65 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  66. Fish Law of 1925 - amend - nonresident fishing privileges of Canadians, unnaturalized foreign-born resident defined

    Act 66 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  67. Local Tax Collection Law - amend - payment of premiums of corporate bonds of first class township tax collector, compensation of elected tax collectors

    Act 67 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  68. Fish migration study law

    Act 68 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  69. Professional Nursing Law

    Act 69 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  70. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - State Board of Nurse Examiners

    Act 70 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  71. Second Class City Firemen Relief Law - amend - compensation of secretary-treasurer, member contributions, payments to beneficiaries

    Act 71 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  72. Business Corporation Law - amend - dividends payable out of paid-in surplus

    Act 72 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  73. Second Class City Policemen Relief Law - amend - pension payments to beneficiaries

    Act 73 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  74. Pennsylvania Turnpike Delaware River Extension Act

    Act 74 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  75. Scotland School for Veterans' Children establishment law - amend - name change: Scotland School for Veterans' Children (from Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School)

    Act 75 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  76. Scotland School for Veterans' Children admission law - amend - name change

    Act 76 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  77. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Scotland School for Veterans' Children

    Act 77 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  78. Redevelopment Cooperation Law - amend or reenact and amend - authority, instruments and validation of certain redevelopment powers of the Commonwealth or State public bodies

    Act 78 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  79. Washington Crossing Park law - amend - establishment of museum or museums

    Act 79 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  80. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Reed Township, Dauphin County

    Act 80 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  81. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - nominations and elections in counties about to undergo classification change, ascertainment of offices

    Act 81 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  82. First class county register of wills bond law

    Act 82 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  83. Second class county land title registration supplement law - amend - recorder of deeds duties, instruments to be recorded

    Act 83 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  84. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - salaries in cases of sickness or death

    Act 84 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  85. Second Class Township Code - amend - supervisor vacancy, township secretary, expenses, contracts, fire protection, garbage, public safety, fire houses, committing magistrate, evasion of advertising requirements, land, roads, road machinery, special tax

    Act 85 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  86. Pennsylvania School for Mental Defectives land acquisition law

    Act 86 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  87. Federal documents admissibility law

    Act 87 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  88. Servicemen's readjustment minors contract law - amend - contracts by minor spouses, validating contracts or loans

    Act 88 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  89. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - regulation of purchase of supplies and repairs

    Act 89 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  90. Motor Boat Law - amend - license application to Department of Revenue

    Act 90 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  91. Penal Code - amend - unauthorized wearing of insignia, badge, shield or button of Air Force Association

    Act 91 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  92. Court-ordered paternity determination law

    Act 92 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  93. Fraternal benefit societies law - amend - funds, death benefit fund obligations valuation report, cancellable disability benefits, double indemnity benefits, reserves, contributions

    Act 93 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  94. Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - assessments against life insurance companies to defray certain NAIC expenses, remainder, reciprocity, reserve liability of life insurance companies organized in foreign countries

    Act 94 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  95. Group Life Insurance Policy Law - amend - group policies, individual policies, premium basis, interest

    Act 95 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  96. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - group accident and health insurance, retirees, proprietors or partner, trustees

    Act 96 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  97. Limited life insurance company law - amend - powers, additional capital, additional surplus

    Act 97 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  98. Habeas corpus jurisdiction law

    Act 98 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  99. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - health and accident insurance, conditions, policy provisions, age limit, requirements of other jurisdictions, application, unlawful policies, limitations

    Act 99 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

  100. Township State Highway Law - amend - route change in Westmoreland County

    Act 100 of 1951 · 1951 · Original text

By decade

Constitution of 19681968–today

Constitution of 18741874–1967

Constitution of 18381838–1873

Constitution of 17901790–1837

Constitution of 17761776–1789

Province of Pennsylvania1682–1775

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.