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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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2,942 laws of the 1960s

Constitution of 1874

  1. Appropriation Law 1A (General Appropriation Act of 1960)

    Appropriation Act of 1960 · 1960 · Original text

  2. Concurrent Resolution

    Resolution of 1960 · 1960 · Original text

  3. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - fiscal period

    Act 1 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  4. Pennsylvania Cigarette Tax Act - amend - license fees

    Act 2 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  5. Toll bridge funding law - amend - transfers to General Fund

    Act 3 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  6. Veterans compensation bond issuance law - amend - transfer of funds to General Fund

    Act 4 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  7. Transfers between General Fund and State Stores Fund law - amend - limit, date of return

    Act 5 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  8. Fuel Use Tax Act - amend - permanent tax, temporary tax

    Act 6 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  9. Liquid Fuels Tax Act - amend - permanent tax, temporary tax

    Act 7 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  10. Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation Law - amend - additional appropriation from Motor License Fund, continuing appropriation from Motor License Fund

    Act 8 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  11. Realty Transfer Tax Act - reenact and amend - imposition of permanent tax

    Act 9 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  12. State Highway and Bridge Authority Act - amend - power to borrow additional sums of money and issue bonds

    Act 10 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  13. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - room rentals at State colleges, disposition of funds

    Act 11 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  14. Corporation Income Tax Law - amend - tentative tax, annual tax

    Act 12 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  15. Corporate Net Income Tax Act - amend - tentative tax, annual tax

    Act 13 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  16. Pennsylvania Cigarette Tax Act - amend - permanent tax, stamp affixing agency commission

    Act 14 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  17. Insurance company gross premiums tax law

    Act 15 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  18. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - gross receipts tax rate, tentative report

    Act 16 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  19. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - rate of tax on shares of capital stock, reporting

    Act 17 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  20. Liquor Code - amend - number of electors on referendum petition

    Act 18 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  21. Pennsylvania Human Relations Act - amend - Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practice Commission changed to Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, housing, public accommodation, discrimination, enforcement of commission order

    Act 19 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  22. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - debt limit of first class school district

    Act 20 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  23. Municipal Borrowing Law - amend - debt limit of first class school district

    Act 21 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  24. Corporation capital stock tax law - amend - tax rate, date for determination of tax base

    Act 22 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  25. Local Tax Collection Law - amend - compensation of tax collector in second class boroughs and townships

    Act 23 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  26. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Forests and Waters contracts, indemnification

    Act 24 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  27. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - duties of Department of Properties and Supplies relating to State buildings and grounds

    Act 25 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  28. General State Authority Act of 1949 - amend - signature of assistant secretary or assistant treasurer

    Act 26 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  29. John W. McLane posthumous Pennsylvania National Guard commission law

    Act 27 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  30. Borough Code - amend - civil service examination exemption for certain fire and police appointees

    Act 28 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  31. Arbor Day, Conservation Week and Bird Day designation law - amend - Arbor Day and The Dr. J. T. Rothrock Memorial Conservation Week gubernatorial proclamations

    Act 29 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  32. Legislative nurse appointment law

    Act 30 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  33. Pennsylvania Fertilizer Law of 1956 - amend - sales to nonregistrant, reports, certain minimum standards

    Act 31 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  34. Domestic mink in captivity propagation regulation law - amend - permit expiration, permit fee, fund, advisory committee, fenced premises

    Act 32 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  35. Oleomargarine and butterine regulation law - amend - margarine

    Act 33 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  36. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - tax assessment in certain third class school districts

    Act 34 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  37. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Bucks County

    Act 35 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  38. Rock-fish and oyster destruction prevention law - repeal of law

    Act 36 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  39. Oleomargarine and butterine regulation law - repeal of section 6

    Act 37 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  40. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Cambria County

    Act 38 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  41. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Clinton County

    Act 39 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  42. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Property and Supplies annual appropriation, Department of Forests and Waters annual appropriation

    Act 40 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  43. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - acquisition of certain manuscripts and other historical and testing material

    Act 41 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  44. Non-alcoholic drink manufacture and sale regulation law - amend - license fee, license expiration, packaging

    Act 42 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  45. Cooperative agricultural association capital stock law - amend - articles of association and letters patent, reporting by Secretary of Agriculture

    Act 43 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  46. Cooperative agricultural association incorporation law - amend - articles of association and letters patent, reporting by Secretary of Agriculture

    Act 44 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  47. Fiscal Code - amend - annual report by Board of Finance and Revenue

    Act 45 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  48. Interstate highway advertising regulation law

    Act 46 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  49. Vehicle Code - amend - lighting standards, hours of operation

    Act 47 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  50. Vehicle Code - amend - operating privilege, Pennsylvania State Police use of radiomicrowave timing devices authorized, Secretary of Revenue, Secretary of Highways

    Act 48 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  51. Vehicle Code - amend - Secretary of Highways to determine restrictive areas for certain vehicles

    Act 49 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  52. Tourist Promotion Law

    Act 50 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  53. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin law - amend - alternate members, powers of commission

    Act 51 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  54. Borough Code - amend - validating borough appointment of police officers

    Act 52 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  55. Municipal police force reduction law - amend - validating township or borough appointment of police officers

    Act 53 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  56. Third Class City Code - amend - filing copy of budget ordinance with Department of Internal Affairs

    Act 54 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  57. Borough Code - amend - council vice president

    Act 55 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  58. Borough Code - amend - right of appeal of Civil Service Commission findings

    Act 56 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  59. Game Law - amend - dog possession or control by unnaturalized foreign-born residents

    Act 57 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  60. Second Class Township Code - amend - mosquito control

    Act 58 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  61. Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - property assessment five years prior to decedent's date of death

    Act 59 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  62. Civil defense employment law

    Act 60 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  63. Uniform Acknowledgment Act - amend - members of armed forces, dependents, Phillipine Islands deleted as jurisdiction

    Act 61 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  64. Borough Code - amend - composition of recreation board

    Act 62 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  65. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Woodbury Township, Blair County

    Act 63 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  66. Public Weightmaster's Act

    Act 64 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  67. Allegheny County court law - amend - jurisdiction

    Act 65 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  68. Optional Third Class City Charter Law - amend - election of charter commission member

    Act 66 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  69. Second Class County Code - amend - certifying persons for police vacancy on the basis of examinations within two-year period

    Act 67 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  70. Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation Law - amend - use of allocated money for charges related to road or street improvement bonds

    Act 68 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  71. First Class Township Code - amend - bids, contracts

    Act 69 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  72. Murder case counsel assignment and compensation law - amend - counsel for persons not under indictment

    Act 70 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  73. Dog Law of 1921 - amend - Department of Agriculture laboratory report following rabies death claims

    Act 71 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  74. Dog Law of 1921 - amend - transfer of dog license, transfer of kennel license, refusal to produce license on demand, control of dogs at night, illegal killing of licensed dog, Commonwealth liability

    Act 72 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  75. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - alternates on joint school committee

    Act 73 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  76. County Code - amend - appropriations to airports operated by municipality authorities

    Act 74 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  77. Second Class Township Code - amend - duties of supervisors, township superintendents and roadmasters

    Act 75 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  78. County Code - amend - authorizing State association of clerks of orphans' courts and registers of will, meetings, expenses

    Act 76 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  79. Second Class Township Code - amend - care of abandoned cemeteries

    Act 77 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  80. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - compensation, final average salary

    Act 78 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  81. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - classification and contributions of members of General Assembly

    Act 79 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  82. Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - multiple service credit

    Act 80 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  83. Public Official Compensation Law - amend - General Assembly member allowance for clerical assistance

    Act 81 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  84. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - superannuation retirement of General Assembly members

    Act 82 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  85. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - service increment after retirement

    Act 83 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  86. Vehicle Code - amend - traffic signal installation in third class cities

    Act 84 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  87. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - use of nets

    Act 85 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  88. Game Law - amend - bag limit

    Act 86 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  89. Third class city optional retirement system law - amend - determination of pensions

    Act 87 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  90. Third Class City Code - amend - determination of pensions

    Act 88 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  91. Second Class Township Code - amend - township registered elector requirement for township officers

    Act 89 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  92. Appropriation payment procedure law - amend - reversion of certain unexpended moneys to State Treasury

    Act 90 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  93. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - valuation of persons and property

    Act 91 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  94. Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - expenses related to investments, unexpended amounts

    Act 92 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  95. Borough Code - amend - appropriations to industrial development agencies

    Act 93 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  96. Anthracite Mine Draining Study Commission law - repeal of act

    Act 94 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  97. Millersville State Teachers College land acquisition law - reenact and amend - abolishing right to acquire certain tract, acquisition of additional tracts

    Act 95 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  98. Meat, meatfood and poultry regulation law - amend - penalties, license suspensions

    Act 96 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  99. Second Class Township Code - amend - land condemnation for landfill purposes

    Act 97 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  100. County Code - amend - coroner duties relating to issuance of certificate of cause of death

    Act 98 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

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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.