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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
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - compulsory resignation age for Pennsylvania State Police members
Act 360 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - joint authorities, articles of incorporation, conveyance of established projects
Act 361 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Explosives Use Regulation Law
Act 362 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Soldiers and Sailors Monument relocation law
Act 363 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State employes' retirement code of 1923 - amend - retirement of General Assembly members
Act 364 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State employes' retirement code of 1923 - amend - retirement of General Assembly members
Act 365 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Corporations tax clearance law
Act 366 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933 - amend - name change, articles, denomination for shares, foreign corporations, merger, postdissolution assets
Act 367 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Corporate notices law
Act 368 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Cooperative agricultural association capital stock law - amend - capital stock and indebtedness
Act 369 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Business Corporation Law - amend - powers, incorporation, dissolution, advertisement, transfer of assets, bankruptcy, voting rights, dissent, cancellation of shares
Act 370 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Corporate debt law - amend - capital stock and indebtedness
Act 371 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bank Holding Company Act
Act 372 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - alienation of certain real property, construction contracts, obligations, reimbursements
Act 373 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fictitious Corporate Name Act
Act 374 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Forster Island tract conveyance law
Act 375 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Orphans' Court Act of 1951 - amend - exclusive jurisdiction of orphans' courts of Philadelphia County over incompetents' estates
Act 376 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Estates Act of 1947 - amend - designation of insurance beneficiaries not testamentary
Act 377 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Wills Act of 1947 - amend - devise or bequest to trust
Act 378 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Incompetents' Estates Act of 1955 - reenact and amend - Philadelphia County, delegation of power over subscription rights and fractional shares, distribution by fiduciary
Act 379 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Criminal Procedural Rules Committee law
Act 380 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - exempting certain unincorporated associations or societies
Act 381 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Boiler Regulation Law - amend - unfired pressure vessels, boilers
Act 382 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Land acquisition - property in Washington Township, Erie County, for use of Edinboro State Teacher's College
Act 383 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - revenues limit
Act 384 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State teachers college land acquisition and expansion law
Act 385 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
First class A school district tax authorization law
Act 386 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Redeemed real estate title validation law
Act 387 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fiscal Code - amend - reports, statements, affidavits, computation of certain tax periods, Department of Revenue reconciliation, Board of Finance reconciliation
Act 388 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Fiscal Code - amend - affidavits, computation of certain tax periods, penalties for fraudulent report or return
Act 389 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Public Welfare establishment, merging and extending powers and duties of departments of Public Assistance and Welfare
Act 390 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - reimbursement, supplemental payments, revised budgets, temporary loans
Act 391 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - options under Social Security
Act 392 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - out-of-State service credit
Act 393 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Local Tax Collection Law - amend - fixing tax collector salaries in third class cities
Act 394 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Borough Code - amend - fire prevention codes by reference
Act 395 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - audits and verifications of rights to reimbursements
Act 396 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - vocational technical education
Act 397 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - Statewide plan of area vocational technical schools
Act 398 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Optional Third Class City Charter Law
Act 399 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Commission on Constitutional Revision law
Act 400 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Limited life insurance company incorporation law
Act 401 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Millersville State Teachers College expansion law
Act 402 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act - amend - mandatory physical examination, fees, expenses
Act 403 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - school health services, reimbursement
Act 404 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Outpatient mental health clinic land selection law
Act 405 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State Farms Products Show land acquisition law of 1953 - amend - appropriation increase
Act 406 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - salaries of chairman and members of Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Act 407 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Law - amend - salaries
Act 408 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State College Faculty Compensation Law - amend - minimum compensation, qualifications
Act 409 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
General County Assessment Law - amend - industrial property
Act 410 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Telephone and telegraph communication interception law
Act 411 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
County and township roadside rest law
Act 412 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Acquisition by gift - Graeme Park in Horsham Township, Montgomery County
Act 413 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
First Class School District Business Tax Act - amend - "receipts," retroactivity, limitation on penalty for unpaid taxes
Act 414 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Acquisition and appropriation - property in South Heidelberg Township, Berks County, for use of Wernersville State Hospital
Act 415 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
General State Authority Act of 1949 - amend - purchase of land for use of State teachers' colleges, indebtedness, allocation
Act 416 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Married woman property and contract equity law
Act 417 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - use of visible blue warning light by fire company member, penalty
Act 418 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Comic books, magazines and other publications distribution regulation law - amend - violations relating to sale, resale and consignment, obscene material, injunction proceedings
Act 419 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Penal Code - amend - obscene literature and objects, penalty
Act 420 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bituminous mines health and safety law - amend - fire boss use of electric lamp
Act 421 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bituminous mines health and safety law - amend - conveyor entry and other entry minimum clearance
Act 422 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bituminous mines health and safety law - amend - blasting
Act 423 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bituminous mines health and safety law - amend - designation of person to act as mine foreman
Act 424 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bituminous mines health and safety law - amend - recording and preservation of examinations, time period for keeping records
Act 425 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State Public School Building Authority Act - amend - examination of sites by Department of Mines and Mineral Industries, reimbursement
Act 426 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Department of Mines law - amend - time period for keeping of records
Act 427 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Anthracite mine safety law - amend - acetylene burners, district mine inspector duties
Act 428 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Anthracite mine inspectors law - amend - time period for keeping records
Act 429 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Bituminous mine board of examiners law - amend - time period for keeping records
Act 430 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Conveyance document notice of coal or surface support severance law
Act 431 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - traffic violation enforcement in third class cities
Act 432 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Borough Code - amend - change of corporate name to conform to general usage or to post office designation, councilmen election where wards abolished, vacancies created after primary election, division into wards, abolishing wards
Act 433 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Department of Mines law - amend - reproduction of reports
Act 434 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Forest Reserves Municipal Financial Relief Law - amend - charges to counties, appropriation
Act 435 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - operation of certain combination vehicles
Act 436 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - fleet registration
Act 437 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - size of vehicles, nondivisible loads
Act 438 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - period for titling certain new two-axle commercial motor vehicles and truck tractors
Act 439 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Gas Operations Well-Drilling Petroleum and Coal Mining Act - amend - plat preparation by engineer or surveyor
Act 440 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - additional retirement allowances
Act 441 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - purchase of credit for approved leaves of absence
Act 442 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - payment of salaries upon sickness or accidental injury
Act 443 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Penal Code - amend - misrepresentation of age by minor to secure liquor
Act 444 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Old Bradford House acquisition law
Act 445 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 supplement law
Act 446 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Searights Toll House restoration law
Act 447 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Third Class City Code - amend - sick leaves
Act 448 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Drug regulation law - amend - penalties for illegal sale, dispensing or giving away of drugs
Act 449 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Board of Pardons adoption of rules and regulations
Act 450 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
State Adverse Interest Act
Act 451 of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Appropriations Law 95A (General Appropriation Act of 1957)
Appropriation Act of 1957 · 1957 · Original text
Anthracite mine drainage law - amend - flood emergencies, rescue, pumping or other drainage, investigation
Act 1 of 1959 · 1959 · Original text
Unpaid assessments penalty law - amend - failure to pay township assessment
Act 2 of 1959 · 1959 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - mileage allowance for attending annual meeting
Act 3 of 1959 · 1959 · Original text
Second Class Township Code - amend - compensation of supervisors
Act 4 of 1959 · 1959 · Original text
Borough Code - amend - council authority to perform Shade Tree Commission duties where no commission has been created
Act 5 of 1959 · 1959 · Original text
Borough Code - amend - election of councilmen under joint consolidation agreement
Act 6 of 1959 · 1959 · Original text
First Class Township Code - amend - commissioners' authority to perform Shade Tree Commission duties where no commission has been created
Act 7 of 1959 · 1959 · 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.