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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. Liquor Code - amend - unlaw possession or transportation of liquor without board seal, penalties, forfeiture

    Act 154 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  2. George N. Wade Bridge in Dauphin and Cumberland Counties - designation

    Act 155 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  3. County and Municipal State Highway Law - amend - certain routes in Philadelphia County

    Act 156 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  4. Land transfer - jurisdiction over certain Commonwealth land in City of Philadelphia transferred from Department of Property and Supplies to Department of Military Affairs

    Act 157 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  5. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - mobile home or house trailer removal, notice, removal permit requirement, assessor, local tax collector, penalties

    Act 158 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  6. Pawnbrokers License Act - amend - proof of identity

    Act 159 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  7. Taxes on court proceedings - amend - effectivity

    Act 160 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  8. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

    Act 161 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  9. Vehicle Code - amend - American flag decal

    Act 162 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  10. Third Class City Code - amend - mayoral emergency powers, chief executive emergency powers, written emergency proclamation, penalties

    Act 163 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  11. Land transfer - jurisdiction of Commonwealth land in Warren County transferred from Department of Public Welfare to Department of Public Instruction

    Act 164 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  12. Vehicle Code - amend - operating privilege revocation, credit for certain suspension period served, suspension rescission in certain cases

    Act 165 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  13. First Class Township Code - amend - independent auditor

    Act 166 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  14. Service of process on nonresident operating vehicle in Pennsylvania - amend - service of process

    Act 167 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  15. Department of Highways roads, streets, highways, bridges - amend - applicability, condemnation, displacement

    Act 168 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  16. Financial assistance for postsecondary education - amend - eligibility, scholarship award, use of funds, certain appropriations, approved institution

    Act 169 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  17. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - eliminating certain powers of State Board of Education, school bus driver employment application, Bureau ofTraffic Safety duties

    Act 170 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  18. County Institution District Law - amend - lease of institutional lands or facilities, Department of Welfare approval, municipality authority, public agency

    Act 171 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  19. City street and alley improvement law - repeal in part - application to first class cities

    Act 172 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  20. Vehicle Code - amend - Secretary of Health regulatory authority for certain intoxication testing

    Act 173 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  21. Abolishing classification of imprisonment

    Act 174 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  22. Bureau of Correction detention facilities in adjoining counties

    Act 175 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  23. County and Municipal State Highway Law - amend - certain route in Bradford County

    Act 176 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  24. Penal Code - amend - Sunday operation of public pool room and billiard room in first class city, persons under 16 prohibited, penalty

    Act 177 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  25. Philadelphia indebtedness constitutional authorization law - repeal

    Act 178 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  26. Mutal Thrift Institutions Tax Act - amend - tentative payment, tentative report, annual report, interest rate, computation, penalty

    Act 179 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  27. Corporate Net Income Tax Act - amend - deductions, tax rate, tentative tax, annual tax, report

    Act 180 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  28. Corporation Income Tax Law - amend - deductions, tax rate, tentative tax, annual tax, report

    Act 181 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  29. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - tax rate, franchise tax, capital stock, fire and marine insurance company, regulated investment company, report

    Act 182 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  30. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - rate of tentative tax and annual tax on capital stock for banks and savings institutions

    Act 183 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  31. Corporation capital stock tax law - amend - rate of tentative tax and annual tax on capital stock for title insurance or trust companies

    Act 184 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  32. Commonwealth Court Act

    Act 185 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  33. Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act - amend - methadone authorized in certain clinics, methadone authorized for research, reporting exemption

    Act 186 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  34. Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act - amend - disposal of solid waste in mines, plans, application, permits, transportation, notice, hearing, county commissioner approval, municipality powers, effective date

    Act 187 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  35. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - Attorney General duties relating to criminal statistics, reporting of criminal statistics by public agencies and officers

    Act 188 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  36. State highway system road removal law - amend - certain route spur in Blair County

    Act 189 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  37. City State Highway Law - amend - adding new routes in Blair County

    Act 190 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  38. City State Highway Law - amend - changing a route in Blair County

    Act 191 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  39. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - certain county board of school directors duties transferred to intermediate unit, school board secretary duties transferred to district superintendent, eliminating county superintendent and other administrators, etc.

    Act 192 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  40. Conveyance - certain Commonwealth tract in Delaware River bed to Rohm and Hass Company for Philadelphia plant expansion, Water and Power Resources board authority to convey, Department of Justice approval

    Act 193 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  41. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - pension payment, election of payment to surviving spouse, rate of payment to board of pensions

    Act 194 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

  42. Vehicle Code - amend - definitions, abandonment and stripping prohibited, penalty, possession by salvor, removal, notification, payment, reimbursement

    Act 195 of 1969 · 1969 · Original text

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Constitution of 19681968–today

Constitution of 18741874–1967

Constitution of 18381838–1873

Constitution of 17901790–1837

Constitution of 17761776–1789

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.