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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. Municipal Employes' Retirement Law - amend - clarifying reference to fiscal year, death benefit for survivors of certain member employes, alternative methods for payment of survivor benefits under Option 1

    Act 485 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  2. County Code - amend - authorizing appropriations for payment of public defenders

    Act 486 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  3. First Class Township Code - amend - authorizing consolidation of two or more wards

    Act 487 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  4. Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act - amend - changing certain penalties

    Act 488 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  5. Pennsylvania Ordnance Works cessation of jurisdiction to federal government law

    Act 489 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  6. Fire and Panic Act - amend - limiting farm buildings covered by the act

    Act 490 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  7. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - regulating powers and duties of Department of Public Welfare relating to public child welfare services, regulating payments to counties.

    Act 491 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  8. Penal Code - amend - failure of health care provider to report injuries by deadly weapon or criminal act

    Act 492 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  9. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - permitting stock insurance companies to issue stock subject to par value requirements, defining profits for purposes of dividends, clarifying capital stock, capital and paid in surplus provisions

    Act 493 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  10. Nonprofit Corporation Law - amend - meetings and resolutions of members, articles of incorporation and merger, allowances or pensions, directors’ actions without meeting, proxies, articles of merger, service of process on Secretary of Commonwealth

    Act 494 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  11. Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act - amend - fellow employe exempt from liability except for intentional wrong

    Act 495 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  12. Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - fellow employe exempt from liability except for intentional wrong

    Act 496 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  13. Mechanics' Lien Law of 1963

    Act 497 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  14. State Public School Building Authority Act - amend - authorizing contracts for educational broadcasting facilities

    Act 498 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  15. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - authorizing contracts between certain corporations and the State Public School Building Authority for educational broadcasting facilities

    Act 499 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  16. Supreme and Superior Court reporter and employee compensation law - amend - changing reporter salary limitation

    Act 500 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  17. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - authorizing life insurance companies to establish separate accounts for pension, retirement or profit sharing plans

    Act 501 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  18. Appropriations to institutions not wholly managed by Commonwealth law - amend - term and satisfactions of liens

    Act 502 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  19. Second Class Township Code - amend - license fees for junk dealers, junk yards and scrap yards

    Act 503 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  20. Third class county employee retirement law - amend - discontinuance of service if appointed or elected to incompatible office or position deemed involuntary

    Act 504 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  21. Chiropody Act of 1956 - reenact and amend - changing name of act and board and making conforming changes

    Act 505 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  22. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - hearing de novo on appeal from ruling of Superintendent of Public Instruction concerning discharge of professional employe

    Act 506 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  23. Delaware River Port Authority new toll bridge construction law - amend - changing location of bridge

    Act 507 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  24. Third Class City Code - amend - authorizing reassessment of after-built property and imposing tax liability on owner

    Act 508 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  25. First Class Township Code - amend - revisions and additions to tax duplicates in the case of new construction for residential purposes

    Act 509 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  26. Uniform Commercial Code - amend - regulating certain commercial transactions, contracts and other documents, making the act conform to the most recent Official Text of the Uniform Commercial Code

    Act 510 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  27. Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949 - amend - authorized investments in public authority bonds

    Act 511 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  28. Public Utility Law - amend - regulation of public utilities to the same extent as heretofore by means independent of the charter and corporate rights, powers, franchises and privileges of such utilities, power of eminent domain

    Act 512 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  29. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - creating election for holding companies in relation to capital stock tax or franchise tax

    Act 513 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  30. Third class county employee retirement law - amend - authorizing insurance company or bank or trust company to administer retirement fund

    Act 514 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  31. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - increasing membership of Pennsylvania Fish Commission

    Act 515 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  32. Vehicle Code - amend - vehicle to yield right of way when intending to turn left in certain cases

    Act 516 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  33. Murder case counsel assignment and compensation law - amend - payments when there is no trial

    Act 517 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  34. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - multiple service benefits, new classes of membership, transfer between classes, dual coverage group, contributions by members in military, deduction of health premiums, benefits, deferments, duties

    Act 518 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  35. County Code - amend - audit of the accounts of aldermen, magistrates and justices of the peace by county controllers or auditors

    Act 519 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  36. Civil Service Act - amend - coverage, technical changes, suspensions of employes, discrimination in personnel actions, hearings and appeal procedures, qualifications for positions, classification of positions, compensation of employes

    Act 520 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  37. Second Class Township Code - amend - authorizing adopting certain expedient or necessary ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission powers and duties

    Act 521 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  38. Unemployment Compensation Law - amend - priority of lien for unpaid contributions, expiration and renewal of liens, saving liens from discharge, procedures and remedies for collection of delinquent contributions

    Act 522 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  39. Second Class County Code - amend - authorizing appropriations for payment of public defenders

    Act 523 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  40. Realty Transfer Tax Act - amend - credit for taxes paid on property sold within one year, excluding transfers from corporations operating State-aided housing projects

    Act 524 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  41. Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - definitions, multiple service benefits and credit, dual coverage, reduction of superannuation and withdrawal allowances, granting an option as to method of receiving certain benefits

    Act 525 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  42. Second Class City Firemen Relief Law - amend - pensions for surviving spouses

    Act 526 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  43. Second Class City Policemen Relief Law - amend - pensions for surviving spouses

    Act 527 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  44. City State Highway Law - amend - changing, adding and deleting routes

    Act 528 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  45. Township State Highway Law - amend - changing, adding and deleting routes

    Act 529 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  46. First class city State highway law - amend - changing, adding and deleting routes

    Act 530 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  47. Borough State Highway Law - amend - changing, adding and deleting routes

    Act 531 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  48. Local Delinquent Tax Return Law - amend - extending time for making return of certain taxes

    Act 532 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  49. Vehicle Code - amend - operating motor vehicle or tractor without a license

    Act 533 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  50. Business Corporation Law - amend - corporations subject to law, names, abbreviations and symbols, powers in emergencies, removal of directors, proxies and facsimile signatures, shareholder rights, dividends, voting rights, dissolution

    Act 534 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  51. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - authorizing and reimbursing school districts to employ dental hygienists for the rendition of dental hygiene services.

    Act 535 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  52. Business Corporation Law - amend - definitions, corporations subject to law, duties of Department of State, validation of corporate acts and transactions, corporate names, eminent domain, merger or consolidation, Public Utility Commission approval

    Act 536 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  53. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - acquisition, organization and retention by a life insurance company of a majority of the stock of other insurance companies, stock insurance companies may issue stock at not less than par value

    Act 537 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  54. Reference and Arbitration Law - amend - compensation of referees and arbitrators

    Act 538 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  55. Public Assistance Law - amend - composition of county boards of assistance, limiting assistance to be provided by public bodies

    Act 539 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  56. Appropriations Laws 1-A thru 44-A

    Appropriation Act of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  57. Appropriation Law 45-A (General Appropriation Act of 1963)

    Appropriation Act of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  58. Appropriation Laws 46-A thru 53-A

    Appropriation Act of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  59. Concurrent Resolution No. 1 - returning recalled bill to Governor without amendment

    Resolution of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  60. Concurrent Resolution No. 2 - returning recalled bill to Governor without amendment

    Resolution of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  61. Concurrent Resolution No. 3 - returning recalled bill to Governor without amendment

    Resolution of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  62. General Assembly representative districts reapportionment law

    Act 1 of 1963 (Special Session 1) · 1963 · Original text

  63. General Assembly senatorial districts reapportionment law

    Act 2 of 1963 (Special Session 1) · 1963 · Original text

  64. Motor Carriers Road Tax Act

    Act 1 of 1964 · 1964 · Original text

  65. Mutual Thrift Institutions Tax Act

    Act 2 of 1964 · 1964 · Original text

  66. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - regulated investment companies, capital stock value, capital stock apportionment, other apportionment by election

    Act 3 of 1964 · 1964 · Original text

  67. Corporate Net Income Tax Act - amend - net income, allocation of net income of regulated investment companies

    Act 4 of 1964 · 1964 · Original text

  68. Corporate Net Income Tax Act - amend - deletion of certain additional deduction, allowable additional deductions, termination of certain additional deduction

    Act 5 of 1964 · 1964 · Original text

  69. Appropriation Laws 50-A (General Appropriation Law of 1964)

    Appropriation Act of 1964 · 1964 · Original text

  70. Unemployment Compensation Law - amend - filing of application for benefits, employer contributions, certain employer liability, remuneration, transfer, rate adjustments, reserve accounts, extensions, fund, authority of Governor, plan with Federal Treasury

    Act 1 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  71. Blind veterans pension law - amend - payments

    Act 2 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  72. Public Assistance Law - amend - inpatient treatment and care in Department of Public Welfare geriatric centers

    Act 3 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  73. State general hospital law - amend - conversion of hospitals or parts of hospitals to geriatric centers

    Act 4 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  74. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - geriatric care, duties of Department of Public Welfare, boards of trustees for geriatric centers, allocation of funds

    Act 5 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  75. Eminent Domain Code

    Act 6 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  76. Unemployment Compensation Law - amend - obsolete provisions deleted, employment redefined, contributions, employer reserve account, jeopardy assessment by Secretary of Labor and Industry, lien, injunction, transfer of assets, after-acquired property

    Act 7 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  77. Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act

    Act 8 of 1964 (Special Session 1) · 1964 · Original text

  78. Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - assessments to defray expenses of NAIC Committee on Valuation of Securities

    Act 1 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  79. First Class Township Code - amend - formation of State association

    Act 2 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  80. City Classification Law - amend - effectivity of classification change resulting from certified population increase or decrease

    Act 3 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  81. Borough Code - amend - appropriations to tourist promotion agencies

    Act 4 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  82. Philadelphia County common pleas court law

    Act 5 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  83. County Court of Philadelphia law - amend - number of judges

    Act 6 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  84. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - wards in first class cities

    Act 7 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  85. County Code - amend - appropriations for police, fire and other public safety radio and telecommunications networks

    Act 8 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  86. Borough Code - amend - special school police

    Act 9 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  87. Borough Code - amend - appropriations for rescue units and equipment

    Act 10 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  88. Department of Public Welfare revolving fund law - amend - limit on maximum amount in fund

    Act 11 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  89. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - geriatric centers, allocation of funds

    Act 12 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  90. Public Assistance Law - amend - medical assistance for the aged, application

    Act 13 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  91. Statutory Construction Act - amend - preparation of laws for printing, printing and interpretation of amendatory laws, marginal notes eliminated, underscoring authorized to denote new matter as part of law

    Act 14 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  92. General Assembly expensing law - amend - custody of supplies, equipment, printed material and stationery

    Act 15 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  93. General Assembly officer and employee law - amend - legislative printing clerk

    Act 16 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  94. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - interim operating committee

    Act 17 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  95. Third Class City Code - amend - fiscal year

    Act 18 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  96. Municipal joint agreement law - amend - nonadjoining local government units, local government units in other states

    Act 19 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  97. Second Class Township Code - amend - secretary and treasurer compensation

    Act 20 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  98. Third class county Civil War centennial observance law

    Act 21 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  99. Local Government Day observance law

    Act 22 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  100. Municipal sewage treatment plant assistance law - amend - Commonwealth payments

    Act 23 of 1965 · 1965 · 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.