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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. Vehicle Code - amend - chemical tests for intoxication, admissibility

    Act 399 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  2. Analytical-Biochemical-Biological Laboratory Act - amend - rules and regulations, limitation on exemption

    Act 400 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  3. Penal Code - amend - quadruplicate signature when applying for firearm purchase, forwarding of application to police or sheriff of buyer's residence

    Act 401 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  4. Pennsylvania Human Relations Act - amend - commission membership, quorum

    Act 402 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  5. State youth development centers acquisition and operation law - amend - Thorn Hill School, Warrendale, Allegheny County

    Act 403 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  6. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - civilian employe of Army National Guard and Air National Guard

    Act 404 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  7. Fire and Panic Act - amend - fire extinguishers

    Act 405 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  8. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - districting of State colleges

    Act 406 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  9. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - unencumbered vocational education funds

    Act 407 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  10. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - notice to delinquent taxables

    Act 408 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  11. Optional Third Class City Charter Law - amend - optional annual post audits

    Act 409 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  12. Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - upset sale price

    Act 410 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  13. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Borough of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County

    Act 411 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  14. Vehicle Code - amend - suspension of license or operating privilege editorial correction

    Act 412 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  15. Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - changing rights, powers and duties of authorities

    Act 413 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  16. County Institution District Law - amend - further regulating powers and duties of local authorities as to persons in foster homes and as to children and youth, further regulating payments for care

    Act 414 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  17. Building and Loan Code - amend - changing provisions governing the change of place of business of a branch, changing provisions for the period of public notice for the discontinuance of a branch

    Act 415 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  18. Professional Association Act

    Act 416 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  19. Penal Code - amend - fraudulent use of credit cards, fraudulent obtaining of telecommunications service

    Act 417 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  20. Banking Code - amend - further regulating certain loans secured by mortgages or deeds of trust on real property

    Act 418 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  21. Building and Loan Code - amend - further regulating mortgage loans

    Act 419 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  22. State Highway Law - amend - payment by Commonwealth of damages occasioned by a change of width, lines or grades of streets designated as State highways in second class A and third class cities

    Act 420 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  23. Building and Loan Code - amend - authorizing mortgage loans to industrial development agencies

    Act 421 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  24. Third Class City Code - amend - authorizing appropriations to industrial development agencies

    Act 422 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  25. Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - official register of earned income tax levies, relieving employers from reporting earnings and withholding taxes as to levies not listed in register and from liability as to residence data

    Act 423 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  26. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - renewal of provisional college certificates

    Act 424 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  27. Municipal claims collection law - amend - statute of limitation for assumpsit action

    Act 425 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  28. Real estate transaction joinder of minor spouse authorization law

    Act 426 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  29. State Public School Building Authority Act - amend - authorizing Authority to convey projects to school districts when all bonded indebtedness and other obligations incurred in the financing of the projects have been finally paid and discharged

    Act 427 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  30. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Bethlehem, Northampton County

    Act 428 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  31. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Bethlehem, Northampton County

    Act 429 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  32. Land acquisition - acquisition of Commonwealth easements, rights-of-way or land in various counties for maintenance of radio communications systems

    Act 430 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  33. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - limitation on taxing authority of school district lying in more than one county

    Act 431 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  34. Diver's buoy regulation law

    Act 432 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  35. Philadelphia register of wills compensation law

    Act 433 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  36. Penal Code - amend - prohibiting debt pooling business

    Act 434 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  37. Pennsylvania Agricultural Lime Act

    Act 435 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  38. Milk Adulteration and Labeling Law

    Act 436 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  39. Military Code of 1949 - amend - changing measure of relief for disability or death of personnel on active duty

    Act 437 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  40. Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - increasing liability for burial costs

    Act 438 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  41. Chiropody Act of 1956 - amend - providing for biennial renewal of registration, changing fees and requiring attendance at biennial educational conferences as a condition of renewal of registration

    Act 439 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  42. Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - requiring employers to furnish replacements for artificial limbs and eyes and to furnish additional medical care in connection therewith

    Act 440 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  43. Realty Transfer Tax Act - amend - excluding transfers between divorced spouses

    Act 441 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  44. Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act

    Act 442 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  45. Anthracite mine drainage law - amend - extending act to authorize sealing and filling voids in abandoned coal mines, making money available for those purposes and for control and drainage of water from anthracite coal formations

    Act 443 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  46. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - increasing maximum number of officers and men in Pennsylvania State Police

    Act 444 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  47. Fifth through eighth class county retirement law - amend - requiring creation of county retirement system in fifth and sixth class counties

    Act 445 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  48. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - removing requirement that fishermen be licensed in order to fish in certain regulated fishing lakes, regulating issuance of permits or bills of sale for fish caught in such lakes, changing penalties relating to such lakes

    Act 446 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  49. Banking Code - amend - changing certain provisions with respect to payment of interest on deposits, further regulating approval of articles of merger or consolidation by Department of Banking

    Act 447 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  50. Incorporated town official election law - amend - redesignation of president of town council as mayor

    Act 448 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  51. Penal Code - amend - further defining disorderly conduct in order to protect passengers lawfully occupying any railroad, railway, elevated railway or subway, passenger station, bus terminal or platform

    Act 449 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  52. Military Code of 1949 - amend - removing exemption of certain persons from jury duty

    Act 450 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  53. Bakery Law - amend - regulating marking and labeling and sale and importation of bakery products, conferring additional powers and duties on Department of Agriculture

    Act 451 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  54. Vital Statistics Law of 1953 - amend - requiring reports of deaths to be made to county registration commissions

    Act 452 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  55. Local additional tax enabling and collection law - amend - changing over-all limit of tax revenues for certain taxing districts

    Act 453 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  56. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - reconsideration of decisions in annexation proceedings

    Act 454 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  57. Commonwealth printing contracts regulation law

    Act 455 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  58. Liquor Code - amend - issuance of identification cards

    Act 456 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  59. Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - licensing of agents for domestic mutual fire insurance companies

    Act 457 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  60. Banking Code - amend - permitting savings banks to service mortgages

    Act 458 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  61. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - authorizing reservation of funds for out-of-state travel expenses

    Act 459 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  62. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - apportionment of rental obligations

    Act 460 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  63. City dance hall license law - amend - license fees in second class cities

    Act 461 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  64. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - authorizing Department of Health to institute a blood plasma protein recovery program

    Act 462 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  65. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - changing certain fiscal provisions to conform to the fiscal period, changing provisions providing for contributions and administrative expenses

    Act 463 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  66. Support Law - amend - prescribing liabilities for assistance in relation to medical assistance for the aged

    Act 464 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  67. Vehicle Code - amend - issuance of temporary registration plates or markers for vehicles which are not to be registered in Pennsylvania

    Act 465 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  68. Fish Law of 1959 - amend - authorizing Pennsylvania Fish Commission to set aside certain waters to be used exclusively for fishing by children and disabled persons

    Act 466 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  69. Manhole safety regulation law

    Act 467 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  70. County Code - amend - limitations on appropriations for agricultural extension work

    Act 468 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  71. Second Class County Code - amend - limitations on appropriations for agricultural extension work

    Act 469 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  72. Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - optional membership in State employes' retirement system

    Act 470 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  73. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - inclusion of members of school employes' retirement system

    Act 471 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  74. Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - computation of allowances payable to joint coverage group members

    Act 472 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  75. First class county deceased veteran funeral expense assistance law - amend - regulating county contributions for funeral expenses

    Act 473 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  76. Motor Boat Law - amend - removing requirement that metallic plates shall be issued

    Act 474 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  77. Prothonotary fee law

    Act 475 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  78. Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1945 - amend - authorizing certain benefits and services for persons injured by accidents incurred in the course of their employment or disabled by occupational disease

    Act 476 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  79. Easement - Commonwealth property in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

    Act 477 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  80. County Code - amend - change in classification of counties when population changes

    Act 478 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  81. General Fund transfers to and from other funds law

    Act 479 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  82. Municipal appropriation to improve State property authorization law

    Act 480 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  83. Municipal Police Pension Law - amend - changing the age at which a member of a police force may retire

    Act 481 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  84. Selective Sales and Use Tax Act - amend - clarifying method of tax collections on liquor sales, imposing duties on persons making liquor sales by the bottle

    Act 482 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  85. Fire, Marine and Inland Marine Rate Regulatory Act - reenact and amend - including domestic mutual fire insurance companies and domestic reciprocals or exchanges within the act, providing for a uniform classification of accounts and records

    Act 483 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  86. Coal and clay mine subsidence fund law

    Act 484 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  87. Bedding and Upholstery Law - amend - adding a definition, changing tag stamp and registration provisions, providing for licenses and certain fees, reports, penalties

    Act 485 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  88. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - requiring domestic mutual fire insurance companies conducting certain kinds of insurance to license their agents

    Act 486 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  89. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - subjecting domestic mutual fire insurance companies to the act, requiring approval of policies, contracts or certificates of insurance by Insurance Commissioner

    Act 487 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  90. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - requiring that policies of fire insurance issued by stock and mutual insurance companies, associations and exchanges contain standard policy provisions

    Act 488 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  91. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - computation of allowances payable to members of the joint coverage group, filing of applications for withdrawal allowances

    Act 489 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  92. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - requiring certain domestic mutual insurance companies to accumulate unearned premium reserves within a prescribed period

    Act 490 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  93. Selective Sales and Use Tax Act - amend - exemption for processing, time of making returns and payment, commissions for collection and remittance of tax, fee to be charged when checks are returned as uncollectible

    Act 491 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  94. State personal property tax supplement law - amend - exemption for processing as defined and limited with regard to capital stock tax and franchise tax on domestic and foreign corporations, joint-stock associations, limited partnerships and companies

    Act 492 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  95. Banking Code - amend - authorizing banks and trust companies to purchase shares of capital in certain corporations or associations engaged in financial operations, acquisition in whole or in part of mortgage loans by a bank or trust company

    Act 493 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  96. Child Labor Law - amend - work in which minors may engage, special permits for minors engaging in entertainment and related fields, working hours, employment certificates, regulations, prescribing penalties, providing a short title

    Act 494 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  97. Liquor Code - amend - prohibiting offer and sale of malt and brewed beverages below cost by distributors and importing distributors, fixing penalties

    Act 495 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  98. Vehicle Code - amend - changing permitted length of vehicles operated in combination, granting power to Secretary of Highways to establish speed limits

    Act 496 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  99. Banking Code - amend - authorized investments, limitations on loans

    Act 497 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  100. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - providing for crediting of service in the case of certain former members of the county employes' retirement system in second class counties

    Act 498 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

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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.