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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. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - regulating payment of expenses for attendance at meetings

    Act 385 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  2. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - authorizing expenditure of funds from tax levies or Federal or State government, regulating semiannual payments

    Act 386 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  3. Vehicle Code - amend - operating and riding on motorcycles

    Act 387 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  4. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Public Welfare powers and duties relating to the blind and to visually handicapped school children

    Act 388 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  5. Vehicle Code - amend - erection of official signs relating to parking meters

    Act 389 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  6. County Jail Prisoner Temporary Release Law

    Act 390 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  7. Vehicle Code - amend - issuance of registration plates on which are inscribed the letters PP and prescribing penalties, fee for registration applicant requesting assignment of a special series of registration plates

    Act 391 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  8. Public Assistance Law - amend - inclusion of purchased hospital and post hospital care, prescribing procedures and requirements

    Act 392 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  9. Anthracite Strip Mining Law - amend - regulating licenses, permits, fees, bonds, backfilling and alternative use of land, rules and regulations, penalties, appeals, Land Restoration Board, Bureau of Anthracite Conservation and Reclamation

    Act 393 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  10. Public Assistance Law - amend - authorizing Department of Public Welfare to contract with nonprofit corporations for medical services

    Act 394 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  11. Philadelphia City-County Consolidation Act - amend - city council to govern sheriff, city commissioners, Board of Revision of Taxes and Registration Commission of the City of Philadelphia subject to approval of the electorate of city

    Act 395 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  12. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - exempting certain bid bonds from counter-signature provisions

    Act 396 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  13. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - exemption for research and development with regard to capital stock tax and franchise tax on domestic and foreign corporations, joint-stock associations, limited partnerships and companies

    Act 397 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  14. Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation Law - amend - use of tax proceeds by first class townships on State highways and drainage facilities

    Act 398 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  15. Corporate Net Income Tax Act - amend - exclusion of certain investments from taxable income

    Act 399 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  16. Motor Boat Law - amend - further regulating motor boating, powers and duties of Navigation Commission for the Delaware River, including certain tidal, fees, fines, penalties, editorial changes

    Act 400 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  17. Superior Court establishment law - amend - changing jurisdiction of courts, editorial changes

    Act 401 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  18. Pennsylvania Cancer Law

    Act 402 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  19. Comic books, magazines and other publications distribution regulation law - amend - changing penalties, restrictions on obscene or narcotics-related publications

    Act 403 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  20. Business Development Credit Corporation Law - amend - further regulating business development credit corporations, permitting operation statewide

    Act 404 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  21. General Fund transfers by Governor for disaster and emergency relief law - amend - changing provision requiring a special fund, redesignating agency to receive appropriation, redefining circumstances under which funds may be transferred and expended

    Act 405 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  22. County Code - amend - authorizing appropriations for restoration and preservation of historical sites

    Act 406 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  23. County records committee law

    Act 407 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  24. Second Class County Code - amend - qualifications for elected county officers and elected or appointed district attorneys

    Act 408 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  25. First class city billiard, pool and bagatelle table or board regulation law - amend - exemptions for certain coin-operated tables or boards

    Act 409 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  26. Credit for time in custody prior to conviction of crime law

    Act 410 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  27. Real estate conveyance by executor validation law

    Act 411 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  28. Banking Code - amend - collective investment funds or other property received or held by a trust company or a bank and trust company as fiduciary

    Act 412 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  29. Banking Code - amend - branches, principal place of business included in articles, dividends, undivided interests in evidences of debt, classifications for deposits, discount of commercial and business paper, lending powers, articles of conversion

    Act 413 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  30. Department of Banking Code - amend - annual institution earnings reports to Department of Banking

    Act 414 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  31. Third class county employee retirement law - amend - time during which contributor may be reinstated

    Act 415 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  32. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - name, composition and powers of State Board of Podiatry Examiners

    Act 416 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  33. Milk Adulteration and Labeling Law - amend - contents of labels

    Act 417 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  34. State youth development centers acquisition and operation law - amend - eliminating certain institutions that may be acquired

    Act 418 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  35. Air space above ground conveyance, transfer or taxation law

    Act 419 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  36. Pennsylvania Civil Procedural Support Law - amend - duty of support of children born out of lawful wedlock

    Act 420 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  37. Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - temporarily continuing assessments to defray expenses of Committee on Valuation of Securities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners

    Act 421 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  38. Uniform Act on Blood Tests to Determine Paternity - amend - liability for payment of compensation of experts

    Act 422 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  39. Banking Code - amend - permitting savings banks to become members of a Federal Home Loan Bank and to invest in shares of a Federal Home Loan Bank, authorized investments of savings banks not under special charter

    Act 423 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  40. Banking Code - amend - permit savings banks to act as managing agents to receive funds or other property and to invest, reinvest and manage all or part of such funds or other property in a collective investment fund

    Act 424 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  41. Banking Code - amend - savings banks may become members of a Federal Home Loan Bank, savings banks may invest in shares of a Federal Home Loan Bank, authorized investments of special charter savings banks

    Act 425 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  42. Banking Code - amend - permit savings banks to act as trustee of certain trusts qualified under Federal Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962

    Act 426 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  43. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - compensation of directors attending election of county superintendent

    Act 427 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  44. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - use of facsimile seals and signatures on certificates of stock

    Act 428 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  45. Mental Health Act of 1951 - amend - habeas corpus, discharge of patients from institutions, patient right to examination and petition for discharge

    Act 429 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  46. County Institution District Law - amend - authorizing appropriations for nursing home care

    Act 430 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  47. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - permitting Department of Public Welfare to provide day care services

    Act 431 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  48. First Class City Permanent Registration Act - amend - changing method of personal registration and change of enrollment of political party by electors who are unable to go to their polling places, regulating deadline for registration

    Act 432 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  49. Motor vehicle uninsured motorist insurance law

    Act 433 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  50. Domestic stock insurance company stock issuance regulation law

    Act 434 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  51. Second Class County Assessment Law - amend - assessment of new buildings and property divided into lots

    Act 435 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  52. State highway construction and maintenance law - amend - adding a new route in Delaware County

    Act 436 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  53. State Personal Property Tax Act - amend - applicability to corporations doing business with professional school employes

    Act 437 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  54. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - creating State Highway Commission in Department of Highways

    Act 438 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  55. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - licensing, qualification, regulation, examination, suspension and dissolution of title insurance companies, agents and applicants

    Act 439 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  56. Medical Practice Act - amend - defining certain terms, clarifying and changing certain requirements for licensure, further providing for examinations and revocation of licenses, changing fees, making editorial changes

    Act 440 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  57. Fifth through eighth class county retirement law - amend - payment of allowances for certain persons who die in county service

    Act 441 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  58. Third class county employee retirement law - amend - payment of allowances for certain persons who die in county service

    Act 442 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  59. Fourth Class County Retirement Law - amend - payment of allowances for certain persons who die in county service

    Act 443 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  60. Mental Health Act of 1951 - amend - type of patients admitted to Farview State Hospital

    Act 444 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  61. Child Day Care License Act - amend - redefining child care, excluding day care in places of worship during religious services

    Act 445 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  62. County Code - amend - regulating additions and revisions to tax duplicates in the case of new construction for residential purposes, changing rate limitation for certain taxes in third class counties

    Act 446 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  63. Vehicle Code - amend - registration and permits for movement of contractors' trailers

    Act 447 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  64. Railroad company board of directors law - amend - authorizing selection of certain officers

    Act 448 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  65. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - regulating construction and repair of buildings by administrative departments

    Act 449 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  66. Metropolitan Transportation Authorities Act of 1963

    Act 450 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  67. General State Authority Act of 1949 - amend - increasing powers and borrowing capacity of Authority, allocating the proceeds of the borrowing capacity, regulating leasing of projects constructed for State aided institutions

    Act 451 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  68. Public office forfeiture for conviction of crime law

    Act 452 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  69. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - changing residence requirements for watchers

    Act 453 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  70. Tax Act of 1963 for Education - amend - restating nature and extent of priority of liens for taxes, saving liens from discharge in certain cases

    Act 454 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  71. Self-Assessed Tax Lien Act - amend - lien for self-assessed taxes shall be given the effect of a judgment without the issuance of a writ of scire facias

    Act 455 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  72. Reciprocity Tax Statute

    Act 456 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  73. Public Assistance Law - amend - providing for community work and training programs for employable recipients of general assistance and of assistance for which Federal financial participation is available

    Act 457 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  74. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - increasing certain fees, exempting certain persons from the requirements of a license, limiting the amount of fish that may be retained, fee to be charged certain older persons

    Act 458 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  75. Cemetery and Funeral Merchandise Trust Fund Law

    Act 459 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  76. Common pleas and orphans' court administrative law - amend - salaries of stenographers and clerks

    Act 460 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  77. Public Assistance Law - amend - eligibility for medical assistance for the aged, applications for benefits as to public nursing homes

    Act 461 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  78. Divorce Law - amend - authorizing entry of judgment for arrearages on an award for alimony pendente lite, counsel fees and expenses

    Act 462 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  79. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - vocational-technical education and technical institutes

    Act 463 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  80. Home Improvement Finance Act

    Act 464 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  81. Penal Code - amend - purchase, use and transportation of alcoholic beverages by minors

    Act 465 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  82. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - enlarging Coal Research Board's sphere of study and research

    Act 466 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  83. Public Assistance Law - amend - eligibility of persons with dependent children

    Act 467 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  84. Chiropody Act of 1956 - amend - use and dispensing of drugs with local effect

    Act 468 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  85. Foreign corporation capital increase excise tax law - amend - credit for tax in certain cases

    Act 469 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  86. Optional Third Class City Charter Law - amend - number and selection of city commissioners

    Act 470 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  87. Pennsylvania Industrial Mortgage Insurance Act

    Act 471 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  88. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Lancaster, Lancaster County

    Act 472 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  89. First class city retirement benefit payments without social security reduction law

    Act 473 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  90. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Bushy Run Battlefield Commission abolished and functions transferred to Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

    Act 474 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  91. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Secretary of Commerce added to Sanitary Water Board

    Act 475 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  92. Foreign Casualty Insurance Premium Tax Allocation Law - amend - amount to Department of Auditor General for auditing costs and expenses

    Act 476 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  93. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - payments on account of pre-employment training

    Act 477 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  94. Realty Transfer Tax Act - amend - imposition and priority of liens for taxes

    Act 478 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  95. Fiscal Code - amend - priority of liens for taxes

    Act 479 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  96. Fuel Use Tax Act - amend - priority of liens for taxes

    Act 480 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  97. Liquid Fuels Tax Act - amend - priority of liens for taxes

    Act 481 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  98. Second Class Township Code - amend - formation, organization and expenses of State Association of Township Supervisors

    Act 482 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  99. Interstate Agreements Records Act

    Act 483 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  100. Community College Act of 1963

    Act 484 of 1963 · 1963 · 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.