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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. Parking Authority Law - amend - parking terminal facilities, powers of authority

    Act 124 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  2. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - cost of new structures or alterations to existing structures administered by Department of Property and Supplies

    Act 125 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  3. Pennsylvania Industrial Mortgage Insurance Act - repeal of act

    Act 126 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  4. County Code - amend - care and services for certain dependents in fourth through eighth class counties

    Act 127 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  5. Incorporated town ordinance and resolution enforcement and validation law

    Act 128 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  6. Game Law - amend - permit issuance to disabled person for hunting from automobile, fee, expiration

    Act 129 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  7. Second Class City Law - amend - contracts

    Act 130 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  8. Orphans' Court Act of 1951 - amend - validation of jurisdiction of certain incompetents

    Act 131 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  9. Incompetents' Estates Act of 1955 - amend - validation of jurisdiction of certain incompetents

    Act 132 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  10. Well and cistern safety law - amend - increasing penalties

    Act 133 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  11. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - minimum length for striped bass or rock fish

    Act 134 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  12. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - Class D-2 membership, duties of member-elect

    Act 135 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  13. Game Law - amend - anterlerless deer

    Act 136 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  14. Game Law - amend - number of permits which may be issued for dog training areas in second class counties

    Act 137 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  15. Commutation of sentence of convict for good behavior law - repeal of law

    Act 138 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  16. Public Utility Law - amend - excluding hauling of saw logs and veneer logs from definition of common or contract carrier by motor vehicle

    Act 139 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  17. Game Law - amend - amount agent may retain for issuing resident hunter license

    Act 140 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  18. Military Code of 1949 - amend - compensation for National Guard member injured or killed on active duty or while volunteering for civil emergency

    Act 141 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  19. Penal Code - amend - unauthorized disposition of food commodity donated by federal government

    Act 142 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  20. City State Highway Law - amend - relocating certain route in City of Bethlehem, Lehigh and Northampton Counties

    Act 143 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  21. Institution state assistance and lien imposition and collection law - amend - satisfaction of certain liens, lien exemption of certain hospitals establishing mental health centers

    Act 144 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  22. Incorporated town airport land acquisition and operation law - amend - proceedings for condemnation of land and assessment of damages

    Act 145 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  23. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - leaves of absence for professional employes of area vocational technical boards

    Act 146 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  24. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - rights of school employes on leave as exchange teachers or for professional study

    Act 147 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  25. Vehicle Code - amend - no suspension in Pennsylvania for violation in another state if suspension not imposed there

    Act 148 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  26. Borough Code - amend - advertising and bidding requirements for borough real property sold for use in community industrial development

    Act 149 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  27. County Code - amend - agreements with federal government for promotion of health and welfare

    Act 150 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  28. Vehicle Code - amend - warning devices and right of way of rescue organization vehicles

    Act 151 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  29. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - school directors of reorganized districts attending conventions and voting, services and terms of county superintendents

    Act 152 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  30. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - new classes of membership, dual coverage groups, national guard and certain school membership, deferred annuities, disabilities, reemployment, assignments, benefits

    Act 153 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  31. Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - exempting certain transfers from builders in trade for new premises

    Act 154 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  32. Vehicle Code - amend - passing school buses, operation of bus signal lights when children are received or discharged

    Act 155 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  33. Transfer of erroneous appeal from judgment of magistrate or justice of the peace law

    Act 156 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  34. Public Assistance Law - amend - post hospital care in patient's private home

    Act 157 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  35. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Public Welfare participation in cooperative federal programs

    Act 158 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  36. Pennsylvania Harness Racing Law - amend - disposition and appropriation of funds

    Act 159 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  37. Penal Code - amend - administering drugs to race horses

    Act 160 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  38. Liquor Code - amend - posting of public notice when State Liquor Store to be located in first class city

    Act 161 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  39. Second Class City Policemen Relief Law - amend - changing amount of pensions to certain beneficiaries

    Act 162 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  40. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - increases in pensions of certain beneficiaries

    Act 163 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  41. Second Class City Firemen Relief Law - amend - regulating payments to certain beneficiaries

    Act 164 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  42. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - editorial changes

    Act 165 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  43. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - conferring benefits upon additional persons

    Act 166 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  44. Vehicle Code - amend - permitting use of tires with ice grips or tire studs

    Act 167 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  45. Third Class City Code - amend - removing limitations for taxation and appropriations for maintenance and operation of recreation places

    Act 168 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  46. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - appointment of members of assessment boards, county commissioners to fix assessment rates of real property

    Act 169 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  47. Second Class County Code - amend - composition of fair, park and recreation boards

    Act 170 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  48. Third Class City Code - amend - composition of recreation board and appointments to school district recreation board

    Act 171 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  49. Incorporated town public recreation law - amend - composition of recreation board and appointments to school district recreation board

    Act 172 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  50. Certified Seed Law - amend - redefining certified

    Act 173 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  51. Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation Law - amend - use of allocated money

    Act 174 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  52. Magistrates' Courts Act, 1927 - amend - magistrate to pay constable by check and keep record

    Act 175 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  53. Philadelphia destruction and reproduction of prothonotary records law

    Act 176 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  54. Coal and clay mine subsidence fund law - amend - administrative expenses, time of establishment of rates, permitting longer policies

    Act 177 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  55. Great Dane designation as official state dog law

    Act 178 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  56. Vehicle Code - amend - dealer and miscellaneous motor vehicle business registration plate issuance and fees

    Act 179 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  57. Proclamation of Governor declaring constitutional amendment results and correcting missing or wrong numbering law

    Act 180 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  58. Legislative Reference Bureau adding missing constitution section headings law

    Act 181 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  59. Liquor Code - amend - quantity of malt or brewed beverage to be sold by any manufacturer or distributor

    Act 182 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  60. Limited access highway law - amend - payment for filing plans with recorder of deeds

    Act 183 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  61. County assistance to hospitals for chronic diseases law

    Act 184 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  62. Urban Redevelopment Law - amend - extending field of operation of an authority in respect to parcels of land severed by a territorial boundary line

    Act 185 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  63. Public Auditorium Authorities Law - amend - construction of structures, agreements for deposit or investing of funds, materials and supplies which may be acquired without advertising

    Act 186 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  64. Pennsylvania Seed Act of 1965

    Act 187 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  65. Second Class County Code - amend - closure of county offices on Saturdays

    Act 188 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  66. County Code - amend - clarifying reassessment of after-built property in cities, liability for city taxes of the owners

    Act 189 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  67. Third Class City Code - amend - clarifying reassessment of after-built property in cities, liability for city taxes of the owners

    Act 190 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  68. First Class Township Code - amend - clarifying reassessment of after-built property in townships, liability for township taxes of the owners

    Act 191 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  69. Second Class Township Code - amend - clarifying reassessment of after-built property in townships, liability for township taxes of the owners

    Act 192 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  70. Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - motion picture theater admissions tax limited to second class cities

    Act 193 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  71. Clean Streams Law - amend - industrial waste to include mine drainage, penalties for discharge of industrial waste, removing powers of Sanitary Water Board, requiring permits for operation of coal mines, responsibilities of land owners and occupiers

    Act 194 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  72. Uniform standard of time law - amend - daylight saving time

    Act 195 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  73. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - increasing amounts in budgets for travel expenses

    Act 196 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  74. Public Assistance Law - amend - granting medical assistance powers to Department of Public Welfare

    Act 197 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  75. Vehicle Code - amend - additional signal lamps

    Act 198 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  76. Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law - amend - limiting the redemption of uninhabited residential property sold to a first class city under a tax or municipal claim

    Act 199 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  77. Non-alcoholic drink manufacture and sale regulation law - amend - marking of labels

    Act 200 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  78. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - validating returns and extending time of furnishing notice of filing of returns and entry of claims, extending the date of sale under the act

    Act 201 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  79. Prothonotary fee law - amend - extending to fourth class counties

    Act 202 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  80. Public Assistance Law - amend - regulating granting of assistance and eligibility therefor, making certain information confidential

    Act 203 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  81. State Blind Pension Law of 1965

    Act 204 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  82. Game Law - amend - sale of alien nonresident hunting licenses

    Act 205 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  83. Game Law - amend - broadening commission’s authority to sell or exchange lands to the best interests of wildlife management

    Act 206 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  84. Game Law - amend - restricting game species which may be taken on regulated shooting grounds under three-day nonresident licenses

    Act 207 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  85. Game Law - amend - tagging of legally taken wild turkeys and their removing and transporting

    Act 208 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  86. Game Law - amend - prohibiting transfer or reissue of antlerless deer licenses and tags

    Act 209 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  87. Game Law - amend - simplifying replacement of lost hunting licenses and tags

    Act 210 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  88. Game Law - amend - permits, fees and regulations of operating special retriever dog training areas

    Act 211 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  89. Borough Code - amend - election of officers in newly organized boroughs

    Act 212 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  90. Vehicle Code - amend - reweighing of gross and axle weights of vehicles, combinations of vehicles and tractors

    Act 213 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  91. Vehicle Code - amend - adjustment of positions of loads on vehicles or combinations of vehicles

    Act 214 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  92. Frozen Dessert Law

    Act 215 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  93. Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - prescribing time within which hearings on petition must be held

    Act 216 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  94. Second Class County Code - amend - authorizing and regulating the sale and lease of real property by counties to industrial development corporations

    Act 217 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  95. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - regulating time during which certain school taxes may be levied

    Act 218 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  96. Korean Conflict Veterans' Compensation Act - amend - extending time for filing application for compensation

    Act 219 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  97. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - requiring the casting of lots when two or more candidates for the same office of school director receive the same number of votes

    Act 220 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  98. Pennsylvania Commercial Feed Law of 1966

    Act 221 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  99. Limited access highway law - amend - providing for connecting limited access highways with routes in other states and payment of costs incidental to the lighting thereof

    Act 222 of 1965 · 1965 · Original text

  100. Second Class County Code - amend - excluding community college employes from retirement provisions of the act

    Act 223 of 1965 · 1965 · 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.