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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. Pennsylvania Harness Racing Law - amend - employment of security personnel

    Act 253 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  2. Pennsylvania Harness Racing Law - amend - leasing of tracks, licenses

    Act 254 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  3. Media personnel source of information immunity law - amend - magazines of general circulation

    Act 255 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  4. Thirty-eighth judicial district additional common pleas judges law

    Act 256 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  5. Correctional diagnostic and classification centers law - amend - classification centers

    Act 257 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  6. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - definitions, class D-3 membership and benefits, employe duties

    Act 258 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  7. Deed acknowledgement and recording law - amend - time for satisfaction of mortgage

    Act 259 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  8. State College Faculty Compensation Law - amend - leaves of absence

    Act 260 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  9. Tenth judicial district additional common pleas judge law

    Act 261 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  10. Equal Pay Law - amend - definitions, wage rates, limitation of actions

    Act 262 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  11. Vehicle Code - amend - abandonment of vehicles, disposition of abandoned vehicles, junking of valueless vehicles

    Act 263 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  12. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Water and Power Resources Board membership

    Act 264 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  13. Gas Operations Well-Drilling Petroleum and Coal Mining Act - amend - completion of well, operator's responsibility, drilling permits, casing, plugging, agency cooperation, filing maps and data, penalties

    Act 265 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  14. Reference and Arbitration Law - amend - amount which may be arbitrated in Philadelphia county court

    Act 266 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  15. Vehicle Code - amend - length of vehicles equipped with booms, weights of tractors, penalties

    Act 267 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  16. Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - electing membership in State Employes' Retirement System

    Act 268 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  17. Penal Code - amend - obscene literature

    Act 269 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  18. First Class Township Code - amend - real and personal property powers

    Act 270 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  19. Second Class Township Code - amend - real and personal property powers

    Act 271 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  20. Liquor Code - amend - limited wineries

    Act 272 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  21. Public Welfare Code - amend - public and medical assistance, blind person applications, inclusion of chiropractors

    Act 273 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  22. Housing Agency Law - amend - declaration of policy, agency powers and bonds as security, mortgagor eligibility

    Act 274 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  23. Post Conviction Hearing Act - amend - appointment of counsel

    Act 275 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  24. First Class Township Code - amend - compensation of township auditors

    Act 276 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  25. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - companies engaged in distilling liquor not exempt

    Act 277 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  26. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Washington Township, Wyoming County

    Act 278 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  27. County Code - amend - payments in lieu of taxes

    Act 279 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  28. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - additional vocational education

    Act 280 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  29. First Class Township Code - amend - construction of sanitary sewers or drains

    Act 281 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  30. Third Class City Code - amend - ambulances

    Act 282 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  31. Pennsylvania Transportation Assistance Authority Act of 1967 - amend - contracts, procurement, property sales, competitive bidding

    Act 283 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  32. Evidentiary effect of settlement or payment for injuries or damages law

    Act 284 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  33. Penal Code - amend - jurisdiction in shoplifting cases

    Act 285 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  34. County Code - amend - compensation of auditors in sixth through eighth class counties

    Act 286 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  35. Group Life Insurance Policy Law - amend - issuing policies to credit unions

    Act 287 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  36. Insurance company asset transfer reporting law

    Act 288 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  37. Borough Code - amend - recording, transcribing and validating records

    Act 289 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  38. Third Class City Code - amend - recording, transcribing and validating records

    Act 290 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  39. Municipal Police Retirement Law

    Act 291 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  40. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - employe eligibility, credit for prior city employment

    Act 292 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  41. Second Class City Employe Pension Law supplemental law

    Act 293 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  42. Milk Control Law - amend - short title and Milk Control Commission renamed, member compensation, exemptions, license fees, bonds and records, system of accounts, price fixing

    Act 294 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  43. Funeral Director Law - amend - funeral director preparation and practice

    Act 295 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  44. Horse breeding law - amend - recording license certificates

    Act 296 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  45. Wage Payment and Collection Law - amend - liquidated damages

    Act 297 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  46. Justice of the peace and alderman training law - amend - extending time for filing certificates

    Act 298 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  47. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - changing name fish warden to waterways patrolman

    Act 299 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  48. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - appointment of assistant solicitors

    Act 300 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  49. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - teaching subjects in languages other than English

    Act 301 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  50. Vehicle Code - amend - erection of official signs before reduced speed zones

    Act 302 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  51. Tax Act of 1963 for Education - amend - exclusions from tax

    Act 303 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  52. New Castle and Blairsville towns incorporation law 1841 supplement law - repeal of law

    Act 304 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  53. Cresson State institutions municipal sewage system extension financial assistance law

    Act 305 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  54. Robert D. Fleming Bridge - official designation (Allegheny County)

    Act 306 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  55. County Code - amend - increasing amount county may pay to county historical society

    Act 307 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  56. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - authorizing purchase or investment in obligations of Asian Development Bank

    Act 308 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  57. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - permitting life insurance companies to deal in shares of own stock

    Act 309 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  58. Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - life insurance applicant exemption from examination, extending life insurance reciprocity to nonresidents

    Act 310 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  59. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - requiring notice in accident and health insurance policies of right to examine policy for ten days

    Act 311 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  60. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - limiting exemptions from taxation for school property

    Act 312 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  61. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - changes in valuation

    Act 313 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  62. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - furnishing abstracts of building permits and other information to board

    Act 314 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  63. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - revisions by board where buildings completely destroyed or razed

    Act 315 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  64. Penal Code - amend - court order of nonsupport and desertion payments from filing of complaint

    Act 316 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  65. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Law - amend - increasing salaries of commission chairman and members

    Act 317 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  66. Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act

    Act 318 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  67. General Casimir Pulaski Highway - official designation (City of Philadelphia)

    Act 319 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  68. Public Utility Law - amend - redefining public utility

    Act 320 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  69. Oxygen or nitrogen conduction eminent domain law

    Act 321 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  70. Sewage Treatment Plant and Waterworks Operators' Certification Act

    Act 322 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  71. County Code - amend - authorizing boards of health in third class counties

    Act 323 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  72. Police and firemen powers and immunities when assisting in another municipality law

    Act 324 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  73. Vehicle Code - amend - brake equipment

    Act 325 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  74. Taxicab and passenger motor vehicle for hire driver license law - reenact and amend - extension to first class townships

    Act 326 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  75. Second Class A and Third Class County Assessment Board Law - amend - changing name of assessment board

    Act 327 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  76. County Code - amend - bonding and escrow requirements concerning depositories of county moneys

    Act 328 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  77. Pennsylvania Public Television Network Commission law

    Act 329 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  78. Vehicle Code - amend - authorizing certain warning devices on all motor vehicles

    Act 330 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  79. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - oath of office of school directors

    Act 331 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  80. Board and Commission Compensation Law - amend - increasing amount paid to State Civil Service Commission members

    Act 332 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  81. Witness criminal immunity granted by courts for testifying before tribunals law

    Act 333 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  82. Credit Union Act - amend - regulating credit union membership

    Act 334 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  83. County records committee law - amend - committee membership, powers and duties

    Act 335 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  84. Third judicial district additional common pleas judge law

    Act 336 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  85. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - approval of acquisitions of capital stock of certain corporations

    Act 337 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  86. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Clarion Borough, Clarion County

    Act 338 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  87. Public Official Compensation Law - amend - minimum salaries of associate judges not learned in the law

    Act 339 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  88. First class A school district real estate tax law

    Act 340 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  89. County Code - amend - removing county surveyor as county officer, county engineer duties

    Act 341 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  90. County Code - amend - county treasurers may succeed themselves in office

    Act 342 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  91. Second Class County Code - amend - county treasurers may succeed themselves in office

    Act 343 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  92. County Jail Prisoner Temporary Release Law - amend - enlarging class of prisoners eligible

    Act 344 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  93. Banking Code of 1965 - amend - institution powers, indebtedness exclusions, loan appraisals, dealing in own stock, share cost limits, reserve funds, judges, vacancies, merger or consolidation approval

    Act 345 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  94. Second Class County Code - amend - removing county surveyor as county officer, county engineer duties

    Act 346 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  95. General State Authority capital budget 1968-1969 amendment law of 1968 - amend - replacing a public improvement project

    Act 347 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  96. Capital Budget Act for the 1968-1969 Fiscal Year - amend - additional transportation assistance projects

    Act 348 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  97. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - financial requirements, writing life insurance and motor vehicle insurance contracts, qualifications of officials to remain in office, mutual company investments, uniformity of language

    Act 349 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  98. Vehicle Code - amend - special permits for movement of oversize self-propelled farm machinery

    Act 350 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  99. Court of record appeals law

    Act 351 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

  100. Magisterial Districts Act

    Act 352 of 1968 · 1968 · Original text

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Constitution of 17901790–1837

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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.