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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.
2,942 laws of the 1960s
Constitution of 1874
General County Assessment Law - amend - notice to owners of mobile homes or trailers, removal permit fee, penalty
Act 54 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Appalachian Thruway - designation
Act 55 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Human Relations Act - amend - sex discrimination, penalty
Act 56 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Allegheny and Butler Counties
Act 57 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Game Law - amend - unprotected birds, protected birds
Act 58 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - Tax Claim Bureau, title search fee, public sale
Act 59 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Prisoner Transfer Law - amend - Deputy Commissioner for Treatment, county commissioner authority to petition for transfer or retransfer, court of common pleas
Act 60 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Municipal Police Retirement Law - amend - third class cities, withdrawn accumulated deductions
Act 61 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Port of Philadelphia board of wardens law - amend - pilot licensing, pilotage rates, pilotage of armed vessels
Act 62 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - Veterans' Day observance
Act 63 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Port of Philadelphia board of wardens supplement law - amend - pilotage rates and number of pilots
Act 64 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Liquid Fuels Tax Act - amend - petition, calculation and use of Boating Fund refunds
Act 65 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
First class city charitable use or trust orphan beneficiaries
Act 66 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Property and Supplies authority to sell Department of Highways surplus or unserviceable material or equipment, Motor License Fund
Act 67 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Easement for electric power transmission, Shamokin Island, Lycoming County
Act 68 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Housing Authorities Law - amend - authority powers
Act 69 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Somerset County
Act 70 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - child nutrition program specialist
Act 71 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - State Veterans Commission, direct assistance payment
Act 72 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Validating proceedings for municipal improvements, assessments, claims and liens
Act 73 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Department of Education created
Act 74 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Capital Facilities Debt Enabling Act of 1968 - amend - title, debt authorization, temporary borrowing, State Treasurer, Capital Debt Fund
Act 75 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Capital Budget Act for the 1968-1969 Fiscal Year - amend - capital projects, highway projects, debt limitation
Act 76 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Department of Mines and Mineral Industries, abandoned oil well, abandoned gas well
Act 77 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Penal Code - amend - prohibition of certain lie detector testing, penalty
Act 78 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - penalty for failure to have operator's license and penalty for failure to renew operator's license
Act 79 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - dates and times of school terms and sessions
Act 80 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Neighborhood Assistance Act - amend - business firm, certain tax credit, effectivity
Act 81 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Contiguous state rifle and shotgun purchase law
Act 82 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission acquisition of the Village of Eckley, Luzerne County
Act 83 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Savings Association Code of 1967 - amend - savings account, savings contract, interest, withdrawal, liquidation
Act 84 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Banking Code of 1965 - amend - savings bank merger, consolidation or conversion
Act 85 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act - amend - nursing or auxiliary service occupational diseases
Act 86 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Liquor Code - amend - renewal application and licensure
Act 87 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1945 - amend - nonresident eligibility
Act 88 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Second Class County Code - amend - service credit upon reemployment, retirement allowance eligibility
Act 89 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Harness Racing Commission - amend - tax disposition in first class school districts
Act 90 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Banking Code of 1965 - amend - money received for deposit or transmission
Act 91 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Disaster relief - amend - civil disorder, General Fund transfers, authority of Governor
Act 92 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Appropriations to institutions not wholly managed by Commonwealth law - amend - prohibiting certain liens for certain State grants
Act 93 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Non-alcoholic drink manufacture and sale regulation law - amend - ingredients, labels
Act 94 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Liquor Code - amend - municipal golf course retail license
Act 95 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Educational personnel qualification interstate agreement
Act 96 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Keystone Shortway - designation
Act 97 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Highway Law - amend - snow fences
Act 98 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vietnam Conflict Veterans' Compensation Act - amend - computation, payment, Vietnam Conflict Veterans' Compensation Fund, incurring of debt
Act 99 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Temporary emergency loan authorization law - amend - annual interest rate
Act 100 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - interest rate, term bond
Act 101 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Municipal Borrowing Law - amend - interest rate, term bond
Act 102 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Fuels tax, liquid fuels tax allocation - amend - formula, minimum payment
Act 103 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Higher Educational Facilities Authority Act of 1967 - amend - interest rate, term bond
Act 104 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Philadelphia Municipal Court
Act 105 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Traffic Court of Philadelphia
Act 106 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
County employer retirement funds
Act 107 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - service credit for certain employees
Act 108 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
First Class City Government Law - amend - tax anticipation notes
Act 109 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
First class city alternate use of borrowed funds law - amend - electoral authorization
Act 110 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Third Class City Code - amend - police pension fund member payment, police pension fund city payment, payment to widow or child, disability, repayment before retirement
Act 111 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
General Assembly officers and employees, etc. - amend - compensation increase
Act 112 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Public School Building Authority Act - amend - interest rate, term bond
Act 113 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Incurring debt for State Highway and Bridge Authority projects - amend - estimated useful life, certain bond proceeds
Act 114 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Montour County
Act 115 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency establishment - amend - loan guarantee amount, expenses, ineligibility for loan assistance, investments in loans, audit
Act 116 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Alcoholism study and treatment law - amend - Program of Alcoholic Studies and Rehabilitation, program director
Act 117 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Powers and immunities of certain transferred police and firemen - repeal
Act 118 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Second Class County Code - amend - assistant superintendent of police vacancy, inspector of police vacancy
Act 119 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Township State Highway Law - amend - certain routes in Armstrong County
Act 120 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Borough State Highway Law - amend - certain route in Armstrong County
Act 121 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Borough State Highway Law - amend - certain route in Crawford County
Act 122 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Highway Law - amend - applicability, relocation, replacement housing, damages
Act 123 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Liquor Code - amend - granting of liquor licenses in certain municipalities
Act 124 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency establishment - amend - fraudulent application, fraudulent income tax data, penalty, fine
Act 125 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Financial assistance for postsecondary education - amend - fraudulent application, fraudulent income tax data, penalty, fine
Act 126 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - repealing provision requiring county superintendents to submit reports of teacher meetings
Act 127 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Joint State Government Commission establishment law - amend - authorizing certain legislative designees
Act 128 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Commission on Interstate Cooperation law - amend - authorizing certain legislative designees
Act 129 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Public School Building Authority Act - amend - authorizing certain legislative designees
Act 130 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State Highway and Bridge Authority Act - amend - authorizing certain legislative designees
Act 131 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - voter instruction on certain voting machines
Act 132 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Capital Budget Act for 1969-1970
Act 133 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act - amend - application for compensation, eligibility, identification
Act 134 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Township State Highway Law - amend - certain route in Luzerne County
Act 135 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Township State Highway Law - amend - certain route in Northampton County
Act 136 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Eminent Domain Code - amend - declaration of taking, objections, damages, recorder fee, viewers, court, prothonotary, notice, separate hearing, guardian ad litem, report, termination by stipulation, removal, business dislocation, condemnee, appeal
Act 137 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Eminent Domain Code - amend - compensation, damages, replacement housing, expenses, increased mortgage costs, farm business dislocation
Act 138 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
County Code - amend - salary payments
Act 139 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Emergency powers of mayor in second class A city
Act 140 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Minors' consent to donate blood
Act 141 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Edward W. McNally Bridge connecting Cambria and Somerset Counties - designation
Act 142 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Second Class County Code - amend - limitation on tax levies in second class A counties
Act 143 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - school bus operator examination
Act 144 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - school bus accident report to Bureau of Traffic Safety
Act 145 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - school bus front view mirror requirement
Act 146 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - school bus registration
Act 147 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - eliminating prohibition against radio equipment and radio use in school bus
Act 148 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - Bureau of Traffic Safety jurisdiction over school buses and school bus safety, eliminating certain State Board of Education powers
Act 149 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - school bus standards, revision, publication requirement, Bureau of Traffic Safety authority, classification, penalty
Act 150 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Township State Highway Law - amend - certain routes in Montgomery County
Act 151 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
State highway system road removal law - amend - certain route in Montgomery County
Act 152 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - school bus signal lamp requirement
Act 153 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text
By decade
Constitution of 18741874–1967
Constitution of 17761776–1789
- 1780s 567
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.