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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.
2,985 laws of the 1950s
Constitution of 1874
Out-of-State acknowledgements authentication and recording law - amend - verification, official seal, certificate
Act 59 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - net brake horsepower
Act 60 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class City Firemen Relief Law - amend - payments to beneficiaries
Act 61 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class City Policemen Relief Law - amend - amounts
Act 62 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - amounts, computation
Act 63 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Game Law - amend - summary proceedings before magistrate, alderman or justice of the peace
Act 64 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fish Law of 1925 - amend - proceedings before nearest available magistrate, alderman or justice of the peace
Act 65 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Reference and Arbitration Law - amend - amount in controversy which is referred to arbitration
Act 66 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - conveyance of unused and unnecessary lands
Act 67 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Directed verdict law
Act 68 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class County Code - amend - administrative functions on Saturday
Act 69 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - temporary restrictions in certain counties
Act 70 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act supplement law of 1957 - amend - auxiliary police or their dependents
Act 71 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Unemployment Compensation Law - amend - limit on Special Administration Fund, discontinuing authorization to erect buildings
Act 72 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Pennsylvania Turnpike continuous lighting law
Act 73 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Donegal-Bedford interchange turnpike median law
Act 74 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
County correctional jurisdiction law
Act 75 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Borough Code - amend - contracts, advertising
Act 76 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Pennsylvania Hospital Survey and Construction Act - amend - hospital construction project applications
Act 77 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - waiver of notice when two taxing bodies impose same tax
Act 78 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Penal Code - amend - meadow mice and pine mice poison exposure
Act 79 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Milk dispensing law - amend - school district exemption from license fees
Act 80 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Frog law - amend - settlement of penalties
Act 81 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
First Class Township Code - amend - contracts, advertising
Act 82 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - contracts, advertising
Act 83 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Act of May 1, 1907 (P.L.147, No.113) - repeal of act
Act 84 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - supervisors meeting, supervisor duties, auditor duties, nuisances, land acquisition for fire houses
Act 85 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Third Class City Code - amend - capital reserve fund for capital expenditures
Act 86 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - capital reserve fund for capital expenditures
Act 87 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
First Class Township Code - amend - capital reserve fund for capital expenditures
Act 88 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Realty Transfer Tax Act - reenact and amend - limited extension, appointment of recorder of deeds as agent for sale of tax stamps
Act 89 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Penn Township, Cumberland County
Act 90 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Act of May 29, 1956 (1955 P.L.1865, No.618) - repeal of act
Act 91 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - permits, inspection, enforcement
Act 92 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Millersville Borough, Lancaster County
Act 93 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Commonwealth Mental Health Research Foundation Act - amend - powers, jurisdiction
Act 94 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - aggregate amount of loans on security of real property
Act 95 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fourth Class County Retirement Law - amend - reinstatement of county employes
Act 96 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - shareholder notice of proposed amendments to increase authorized capital
Act 97 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Urban Redevelopment Law - amend - authority powers, proposal requirements, blighted areas
Act 98 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Liquor Code - amend - daylight saving time
Act 99 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Armstrong County State bridge law
Act 100 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Historical and Museum Commission, Historical Preservation Fund
Act 101 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
County Code - amend - State associations of coroners, meeting expenses
Act 102 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act - amend - financial responsibility
Act 103 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Third Class City Code - amend - annexation by ordinance
Act 104 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - water mains, charges, liens, tapping fees
Act 105 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Bristol Borough and Bristol Township, Bucks, containing Silver Lake, by Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Act 106 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Osteopathic and surgical practice law - amend - qualifications, licensing, interns, hospitals
Act 107 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - annual reports to municipalities and Department of Internal Affairs
Act 108 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
First class county prothonotary fee law
Act 109 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Acknowledgments validation law of 1957
Act 110 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Limited access highway law - amend - lighting
Act 111 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State Highway Law - amend - lighting
Act 112 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Unemployment Compensation Law - amend - audit of funds
Act 113 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fiscal Code - amend - cost of audits
Act 114 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fiscal Code - amend - audit of State Workmen's Insurance Board
Act 115 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Child welfare service vehicle transfer law - amend - Lycoming County institution district
Act 116 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fiscal Code - amend - unused Commonwealth license forms, unused dog tags, unused buttons and certificates
Act 117 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Game Law - amend - hunting deer or bear in dog training areas
Act 118 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
County Code - amend - payment to historical societies
Act 119 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Dental Law - amend - dental technicians, prescriptions, penalties
Act 120 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fish Law of 1925 - amend - fish warden arrest powers, penalties
Act 121 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State Fire Marshal Law - amend - insurance reports
Act 122 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - continuing provisions relating to assessments to defray expenses of NAIC committee on valuation of securities
Act 123 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Out-of-State wills recording law
Act 124 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Pennsylvania Pesticide Act of 1957
Act 125 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fictitious Name Act - amend - amended certificates, filing with Secretary of Commonwealth and prothonotary, fees
Act 126 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vital statistics law of 1941 - amend - fee for certified copy of birth records
Act 127 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - sale or display of unapproved safety belts or harnesses
Act 128 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - size of motor buses and motor omnibuses
Act 129 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - trailer
Act 130 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - towing uninspected vehicles to official inspection station
Act 131 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - corrected certificates of title when liens or encumbrances have not been renewed
Act 132 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - removing restrictions on loans insured by Federal Housing Administrator
Act 133 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - branch, places of business, restatement of articles, merger
Act 134 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - deposit receipts
Act 135 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Lewistown Borough, Mifflin County
Act 136 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - size of vehicles loaded with farm machinery
Act 137 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
County Court of Philadelphia law - amend - jurisdiction
Act 138 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - sabbatical leave, salary while on leave
Act 139 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Ice cream regulation law - amend - artificially sweetened ice milk for diabetics
Act 140 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - speed of commercial motor vehicles and R class truck tractors
Act 141 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Judiciary system law of 1806 - amend - proceedings docketed in Municipal Court of Philadelphia
Act 142 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Arbitrations and proceedings law - amend - Municipal Court of Philadelphia filings
Act 143 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law - amend - Municipal Court of Philadelphia filings
Act 144 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Milk Control Law - amend - penalties in lieu of suspension, summary offenses
Act 145 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - reenact - minimum engine capacity
Act 146 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - court-appointed certified public accountant, duties of auditors
Act 147 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Foreign Casualty Insurance Premium Tax Allocation Law - amend - distribution of funds according to population
Act 148 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Aeronautics law - amend - notice of construction in airport vicinity
Act 149 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
County Court of Philadelphia law - amend - transfer of cases by and to common pleas court
Act 150 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State Highway Department Law - amend - payment withheld pending construction project completion, interest
Act 151 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Mental Health Act of 1951 - amend - clarifying provisions relating to petition for commitment of prisoner or person released on bail
Act 152 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Game Law - amend - duration of field meets or trials
Act 153 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Game Law - amend - donations for game purposes
Act 154 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fish Law of 1925 - amend - donations for fish purposes
Act 155 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Joint county industrial farm and workhouse law - amend - commitment, payment
Act 156 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Reference and Arbitration Law - amend - court-approved awards as judgment of court with dignity of judicial proceedings
Act 157 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - income tax deductions to residents of other states if similar deductions are granted to Pennsylvania residents
Act 158 of 1957 · 1957 · 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.