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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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2,985 laws of the 1950s

Constitution of 1874

  1. Justice of the peace jurisdiction and constable sale fee law - amend - jurisdiction of aldermen, magistrates and justices of the peace

    Act 237 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  2. Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933 - amend - nonprofit dental service corporations

    Act 238 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  3. Nonprofit Dental Service Corporation Act

    Act 239 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  4. First class city Department of Public Welfare prisoner commitment law

    Act 240 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  5. Delaware River Port Authority new toll bridge construction law

    Act 241 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  6. Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - application to uncollected taxes

    Act 242 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  7. Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - appeals to County Court of Allegheny County

    Act 243 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  8. Second Class County Code - amend - satisfaction of judgment liens against real property

    Act 244 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  9. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - taxing power to pay teaching and supervisory staff salaries and increments in schools districts of the second, third and fourth classes

    Act 245 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  10. Probation-parole violator cooperative return law

    Act 246 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  11. Corporation capital stock tax law - amend - report, computation

    Act 247 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  12. First class county deceased veteran funeral expense assistance law - amend - armed conflict service personnel

    Act 248 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  13. Scotland School for Veterans' Children admission law - amend - children of veterans of armed conflicts

    Act 249 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  14. Veterans vital statistics and divorce decree certified copy law

    Act 250 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  15. Notary public commission revocation law

    Act 251 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  16. State Highway Law - amend - adjustment of municipally owned public utility facilities

    Act 252 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  17. Drug regulation law - amend - oral prescriptions, editorial correction relating to coca

    Act 253 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  18. Third Class City Code - amend - city payments to pension fund

    Act 254 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  19. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Welfare mental health program, commissioner of mental health, advisory council, boards of trustees of State institutions

    Act 255 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  20. Oil and Gas Lease Fund establishment law

    Act 256 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  21. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - exclusion of State Police assigned to turnpike commission when determining State Police total number

    Act 257 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  22. Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949 - amend - fractional interests

    Act 258 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  23. Financial institution records preservation and use law - amend - preservation, admissibility in evidence

    Act 259 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  24. Public employee strike law - amend - grievances of professional employees, grievances of nonprofessional employees, duties of panels

    Act 261 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  25. Borough Code - amend - incorporation, penalties, expenses for attending State Association of Boroughs meetings, capital reserve funds, land subdivision ordinance

    Act 262 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  26. Marital rights and remedies law - amend - desertion of children, right of action

    Act 263 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  27. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - vehicle removal and impoundment by incorporated towns

    Act 264 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  28. Second Class County Code - amend - county planning commission

    Act 265 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  29. Borough Code - amend - sale of borough real property

    Act 266 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  30. Second Class County Assessment Law - amend - time for valuation or assessment of new buildings

    Act 267 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  31. Building and Loan Code - amend - board of directors regular meeting

    Act 268 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  32. First class city employee pension fund law - amend - credited school district service

    Act 269 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  33. Commerce Law - amend - transfer of planning functions from State Planning Board to Department of Commerce

    Act 270 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  34. Tobyhanna Signal Depot cession law

    Act 271 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  35. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - title and registration fee exemption for veterans with amputated or paralyzed limbs

    Act 272 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  36. State officer and agency funds investment regulation law - amend - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development guaranteed investments

    Act 273 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  37. General State Authority Act of 1949 - amend - property sale, transfer or conveyance

    Act 274 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  38. Vacant or unappropriated land titling law - amend - rights and easements under navigable rivers

    Act 275 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  39. Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - real property transfer tax, validation of ordinances and resolutions

    Act 276 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  40. Sheriff Fee Law of 1949 - amend - fees and costs

    Act 277 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  41. Second Class County Code - amend - salaries of county officers

    Act 278 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  42. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - employment of relatives of school directors

    Act 279 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  43. First class A school district temporary personal property tax law - amend - valuation of taxables shares of regulated investment company stock

    Act 280 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  44. Dangerous Drug Act of 1955

    Act 281 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  45. Borough Code - amend - borough ordinance consolidation, codification or revision

    Act 282 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  46. General County Assessment Law - amend - payment of taxes pending appeal, collection pending appeal, refunds

    Act 283 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  47. Banking Code - amend - branches

    Act 284 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  48. Building and Loan Code - amend - place of business, branches

    Act 285 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  49. County Code - amend - rooms for meetings of American Gold Star Mothers Inc. and other veterans and auxiliary organizations

    Act 286 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  50. Public meeting rooms law - amend - ladies auxiliaries, American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.

    Act 287 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  51. Chattel mortgage law of 1955

    Act 288 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  52. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - unearned premium reserve, investment of reserves

    Act 289 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  53. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - investments of title insurance companies

    Act 290 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  54. Fiscal Code - amend - interest limit relating to refund of money subject to escheat paid into State Treasury

    Act 291 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  55. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in West Goshen Township, Chester County

    Act 292 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  56. Second class county coroner fee law - amend - fees

    Act 293 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  57. Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933 - amend - transfer of property and assets in trust

    Act 294 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  58. Second class county clerk of courts fee law - amend - fees

    Act 295 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  59. Interstate compact on juveniles law

    Act 296 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  60. Liquor Code - amend - distributor license transfers, importing license transfers, intercounty transfers

    Act 297 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  61. Local Delinquent Tax Return Law - amend - tax sales and payment of purchase money

    Act 298 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  62. Armed forces acknowledgments and affidavits law - amend - inclusion, in affadivit provisions, of spouse

    Act 299 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  63. Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - imposition of real property transfer tax on transferor or transferee

    Act 300 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  64. First Class Township Code - amend - certain annual tax millage increase

    Act 301 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  65. County Code - amend - war records, monuments or memorials

    Act 302 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  66. County Code - amend - armed conflict service personnel

    Act 303 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  67. County Code - amend - submission of plans to County Planning Commission

    Act 304 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

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

    Act 305 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  69. Second Class City Firemen Relief Law - amend - payments to beneficiaries

    Act 306 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  70. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - reenact and amend - pension amount

    Act 307 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  71. Second Class County Code - amend - retirement eligibility, retirement allowances

    Act 308 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  72. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - joint authority and political subdivision employee eligibility and options

    Act 309 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  73. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - abolishing State Osteopathic Surgeons' Examining Board, State Board of Osteopathic Examiners membership

    Act 310 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  74. Osteopathic and surgical practice law - amend - osteopathy, osteopathic physician and surgeon qualifications and licensing, abolishing State Osteopathic Surgeons' Examining Board

    Act 311 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  75. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - school bus loading zone, deleting school bus stop sign provisions, passing school buses, penalty

    Act 312 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  76. Limited life insurance company law - amend - powers

    Act 313 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  77. Repeal - act of June 7, 1917 (P.L.337, No.187) as to partition and valuation and sale of real estate of persons who died after December 31, 1949

    Act 314 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  78. Mutual life insurance company formation law

    Act 315 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  79. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - registration plates for newspaper, newsreel or television photographers

    Act 316 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  80. First Class School District Business Tax Act - amend - receipts

    Act 317 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  81. First Class School District Business Tax Act - amend - computation, penalty, suit on collection

    Act 318 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  82. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - terms of judges of election and inspectors of election

    Act 319 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  83. County Institution Distict Law - amend - sale of surplus farm products and other personal property

    Act 320 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  84. Register of Wills Act of 1951 - amend - wills probated outside Commonwealth

    Act 321 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  85. Orphans' Court Act of 1951 - amend - exclusive jurisdiction, trials, incompetents' estates, Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County

    Act 322 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  86. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - vehicle depreciation payments

    Act 323 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  87. Fire sale law of 1937 - amend - application to municipalities and townships, disclosure, inventory, licensing, penalties

    Act 324 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  88. Fireworks Law - amend - permit for agricultural purposes

    Act 325 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  89. First Class School District Business Tax Act - amend - exclusion relating to receipts

    Act 326 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  90. Intestate Act of 1947 - amend - partial intestacy, spousal rights, distribution to Commonwealth

    Act 327 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  91. County Prison Board Law - amend - extending powers of peace officers to wardens, deputies and other appointees

    Act 328 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  92. County Code - amend - auditor report to common pleas court, repealing provisions relating to depositories

    Act 329 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  93. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - expense and mileage allowances for board and committee members

    Act 330 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  94. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - limit relating to out-of-State meetings attended by members of boards of school directors, expense and mileage allowances

    Act 331 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  95. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - extension for school tax levy and assessment

    Act 332 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  96. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - State appropriation withholdings to pay school district rent default to municipality authority or nonprofit corporation

    Act 333 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  97. Municipality authority school construction contract and payment validation law

    Act 334 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  98. Historic sites and buildings designation law

    Act 335 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  99. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - reserves

    Act 336 of 1955 · 1955 · Original text

  100. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - payment to school districts for accepting nonresident inmates of children's institutions

    Act 337 of 1955 · 1955 · 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.