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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. Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - continuing provisions relating to expenses of NAIC Committee on Valuation of Securities

    Act 73 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  2. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - stock fire, stock marine, stock fire and marine and stock casualty insurance

    Act 74 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  3. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - qualifications of incorporators, directors and trustees

    Act 75 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  4. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - directors vacancies

    Act 76 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  5. Anthracite Strip Mining Law - amend - covering of open pits, duties of Secretary of Mines

    Act 77 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  6. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - milk sanitation, duties of Department of Agriculture

    Act 78 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  7. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - workers' compensation and occupational disease insurance rates, annual reporting on premiums and losses

    Act 79 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  8. Workmen's Compensation Security Fund Act - amend - statutorily authorized occupational disease insurance carriers

    Act 80 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  9. Group Life Insurance Policy Law - amend - coverage increase

    Act 81 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  10. Fiscal Code - amend - disbursements from Historical Preservation Fund

    Act 82 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  11. Second Class Township Code - amend - supervisor, police force, auditor, zoning officer, holding of elective offices by justices of the peace, parking, garbage, abandoned cemeteries, fire prevention, public safety, parks and recreation, tax levy

    Act 83 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  12. Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission jurisdiction and financing supplement law

    Act 84 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  13. Use and Storage Tax Act

    Act 85 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  14. Consumers Sales Tax Act

    Act 86 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  15. Second Class Township Code - amend - planning commissions

    Act 87 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  16. Second Class Township Code - amend - property owner zoning protests

    Act 88 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  17. Second Class Township Code - amend - auditor compensation

    Act 89 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  18. Local Tax Collection Law - amend - sureties on bonds of tax collectors

    Act 90 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  19. Banking Code - amend - authorized investments of savings banks

    Act 91 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  20. Building and Loan Code - amend - share certificate

    Act 92 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  21. Building and Loan Code - amend - appeals, prohibiting fractional voting, bylaws, installment shares, destruction of records

    Act 93 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  22. Federal savings and loan associations law - amend - share accounts to minors

    Act 94 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  23. Pennsylvania Civil Procedural Support Law

    Act 95 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  24. Fraternal benefit societies law - amend - contracts and funds

    Act 96 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  25. Place of employment health and safety law - amend - protection against radiation

    Act 97 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  26. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - reimbursement to counties, entry of claims, absolute claims, notice, exceptions, sales

    Act 98 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  27. Second class county coroner fee law - amend - increasing fees

    Act 99 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  28. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - benefits and requirements of city-created authorities

    Act 100 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  29. Magistrates' Fee Bill of Cities of the First Class

    Act 101 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  30. Divorced woman prior name law - amend - local or foreign divorce decree

    Act 102 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  31. Second class city tax return regulation law

    Act 103 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  32. First class school district temporary mercantile license tax law - amend - review of tax returns

    Act 104 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  33. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in City of Erie, Erie County

    Act 105 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  34. General Assembly officer and employees law - amend - per diem

    Act 106 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  35. General County Assessment Law - amend - assessable real estate, excluded real estate

    Act 107 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  36. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - assessable real estate, excluded real estate

    Act 108 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  37. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - system adoption for collecting delinquent tax, redemption period

    Act 109 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  38. Zoning ordinance filing law - repeal of act

    Act 110 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  39. Building ordinance filing law - repeal of act

    Act 111 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  40. Tax and municipal claims filing law

    Act 112 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  41. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - real estate classification, oath of assessors, manner of assessments

    Act 113 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  42. Second class A cities tax collection law - amend - annual reports by controller

    Act 114 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  43. Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933 - amend - corporate trustees

    Act 115 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  44. Juvenile Court Law - amend - court jurisdiction during court vacation

    Act 116 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  45. Prothonotaries adsectum judgment indexing fee law - enctment

    Act 117 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  46. Summary proceedings fines, penalties and forfeitures disposition law - amend - monthly settlements by magistrates, aldermen and justices of the peace

    Act 118 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  47. Second Class City Law - amend - limit on days and hours of service for policemen

    Act 119 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  48. Fiscal Code - amend - petitions in escheat

    Act 120 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  49. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - violation relating to possession of inspection certificate

    Act 121 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  50. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - spousal transfer and temporary use of registration plates

    Act 122 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  51. The General County Law - amend - insurance to protect against robbery, burglary and larceny

    Act 123 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  52. Corporation Income Tax Law - reenact or reenact and amend - title, extension of tax imposition, reporting and effectivity

    Act 124 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  53. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - capital stock, eight-year applicability period

    Act 125 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  54. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - lighting equipment

    Act 126 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  55. Surveyor general fees law - amend - crediting fees to General Fund

    Act 127 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  56. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Allentown, Lehigh County

    Act 128 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  57. Oil and gas well records law - amend - crediting fees to General Fund

    Act 129 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  58. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Collier Township, Allegheny County

    Act 130 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  59. Veterans Administration Hospital Federal acquisition consent law

    Act 131 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  60. State Highway Law - amend - authority of boroughs and townships relating to highway widening

    Act 132 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  61. Second Class Township Code - amend - highway straightening or widening

    Act 133 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  62. Fiscal Code - amend - extensions of time

    Act 134 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  63. Corporation capital stock tax law - amend - time for payment after settlement

    Act 135 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  64. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - time for payment after settlement

    Act 136 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  65. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Ephrata Township, Lancaster County

    Act 137 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  66. Conveyance - authorizing public sale of Commonwealth property in Brookville, Jefferson County

    Act 138 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  67. Public highway excise tax law - amend - attachment of certificate to vehicle upon tax payment

    Act 139 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  68. Anthracite coal mine employee health and safety law - amend - mine with five or fewer employees, enforcement, appeal

    Act 140 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  69. Conrad Weiser Memorial Park administration law - amend - Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

    Act 141 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  70. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Dixmont State Hospital board of trustees

    Act 142 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  71. Corporate Net Income Tax Act - reenact or reenact and amend - stock life insurance company net income, tax rate, limited extension

    Act 143 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  72. Fish Law of 1925 - amend - special permits or complimentary licenses

    Act 144 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  73. Second class township annexation law

    Act 145 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  74. Trial exceptions and transcription law - amend - exception relating to ruling on testimony admission or exclusion

    Act 146 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  75. Loan and transfer agents law

    Act 147 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  76. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - bus size and weight

    Act 148 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  77. Capital increase excise law

    Act 149 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  78. Capital stock excise tax law

    Act 150 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  79. Recorder of deeds required recording law - amend - property transfers to second class township supervisors

    Act 151 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  80. Executive Mansion public sale law

    Act 152 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  81. Industrial Homework Law - amend - fees, nonpayment, approval of rules and regulations

    Act 153 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  82. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Skippack Township, Montgomery County

    Act 154 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  83. Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 - amend - writ of certiorari, bond requirement in certain cases, writ of possession, time before notice of forcible ejectment

    Act 155 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  84. Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - board membership

    Act 156 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  85. Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act - amend - deposit and amount of security, reciprocity, penalties

    Act 157 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  86. City of Erie acreage conveyance of 1953

    Act 158 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  87. Pawnbrokers License Act - amend - interest and charges

    Act 159 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  88. Tractor Code - amend - inclusion of snow removal vehicles

    Act 160 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  89. Vehicle code of 1929 - amend - special hauling permits for manufacturers of certain vehicles, permits for movement of vehicles in process of being manufactured, fees, penalties

    Act 161 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  90. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - compensation of officers in third to eighth class counties

    Act 162 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  91. Funeral Director Law - amend - licensure requirements, pre-need funeral service contracts

    Act 163 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  92. Commodities regulation law - amend - manure transportation, sale and delivery

    Act 164 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  93. Penicillin regulation law - amend - excepting poultry and animal feeds not intended for human consumption

    Act 165 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  94. General State Authority Act of 1949 - amend - borrowing capacity, construction reports and cost estimates to General Assembly, allocations

    Act 166 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  95. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - assessor compensation

    Act 167 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  96. Banking Code - amend - installment loans

    Act 168 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  97. Banking Code - amend - authorized investments, FHA loans

    Act 169 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  98. Banking Code - amend - authorized investments, annual trustee review of property or security

    Act 170 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  99. School district contracts validation law

    Act 171 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

  100. Banking Code - reenact - loans on and investments in bonds and mortgages and judgments of record

    Act 172 of 1953 · 1953 · Original text

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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.