The Pennsylvania Register
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
Vehicle Code - amend - chemical tests for intoxication, admissibility
Act 399 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Analytical-Biochemical-Biological Laboratory Act - amend - rules and regulations, limitation on exemption
Act 400 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Pennsylvania Human Relations Act - amend - commission membership, quorum
Act 402 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
State youth development centers acquisition and operation law - amend - Thorn Hill School, Warrendale, Allegheny County
Act 403 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - civilian employe of Army National Guard and Air National Guard
Act 404 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Fire and Panic Act - amend - fire extinguishers
Act 405 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - districting of State colleges
Act 406 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - unencumbered vocational education funds
Act 407 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - notice to delinquent taxables
Act 408 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Optional Third Class City Charter Law - amend - optional annual post audits
Act 409 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Real Estate Tax Sale Law - amend - upset sale price
Act 410 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Borough of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County
Act 411 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Vehicle Code - amend - suspension of license or operating privilege editorial correction
Act 412 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - changing rights, powers and duties of authorities
Act 413 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
Professional Association Act
Act 416 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Penal Code - amend - fraudulent use of credit cards, fraudulent obtaining of telecommunications service
Act 417 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - further regulating certain loans secured by mortgages or deeds of trust on real property
Act 418 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Building and Loan Code - amend - further regulating mortgage loans
Act 419 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Building and Loan Code - amend - authorizing mortgage loans to industrial development agencies
Act 421 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Third Class City Code - amend - authorizing appropriations to industrial development agencies
Act 422 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - renewal of provisional college certificates
Act 424 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Municipal claims collection law - amend - statute of limitation for assumpsit action
Act 425 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Real estate transaction joinder of minor spouse authorization law
Act 426 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Bethlehem, Northampton County
Act 428 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Bethlehem, Northampton County
Act 429 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
Diver's buoy regulation law
Act 432 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Philadelphia register of wills compensation law
Act 433 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Penal Code - amend - prohibiting debt pooling business
Act 434 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Pennsylvania Agricultural Lime Act
Act 435 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Milk Adulteration and Labeling Law
Act 436 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - increasing liability for burial costs
Act 438 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
Realty Transfer Tax Act - amend - excluding transfers between divorced spouses
Act 441 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act
Act 442 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - increasing maximum number of officers and men in Pennsylvania State Police
Act 444 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
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
Incorporated town official election law - amend - redesignation of president of town council as mayor
Act 448 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Military Code of 1949 - amend - removing exemption of certain persons from jury duty
Act 450 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Vital Statistics Law of 1953 - amend - requiring reports of deaths to be made to county registration commissions
Act 452 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - reconsideration of decisions in annexation proceedings
Act 454 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Commonwealth printing contracts regulation law
Act 455 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Liquor Code - amend - issuance of identification cards
Act 456 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - licensing of agents for domestic mutual fire insurance companies
Act 457 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Banking Code - amend - permitting savings banks to service mortgages
Act 458 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - authorizing reservation of funds for out-of-state travel expenses
Act 459 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Public School Code of 1949 - amend - apportionment of rental obligations
Act 460 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
City dance hall license law - amend - license fees in second class cities
Act 461 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - authorizing Department of Health to institute a blood plasma protein recovery program
Act 462 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Support Law - amend - prescribing liabilities for assistance in relation to medical assistance for the aged
Act 464 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
Manhole safety regulation law
Act 467 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
County Code - amend - limitations on appropriations for agricultural extension work
Act 468 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Second Class County Code - amend - limitations on appropriations for agricultural extension work
Act 469 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - optional membership in State employes' retirement system
Act 470 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - inclusion of members of school employes' retirement system
Act 471 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Public School Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - computation of allowances payable to joint coverage group members
Act 472 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
First class county deceased veteran funeral expense assistance law - amend - regulating county contributions for funeral expenses
Act 473 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Motor Boat Law - amend - removing requirement that metallic plates shall be issued
Act 474 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Prothonotary fee law
Act 475 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
Easement - Commonwealth property in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
Act 477 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
County Code - amend - change in classification of counties when population changes
Act 478 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
General Fund transfers to and from other funds law
Act 479 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
Municipal appropriation to improve State property authorization law
Act 480 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
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
Coal and clay mine subsidence fund law
Act 484 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Banking Code - amend - authorized investments, limitations on loans
Act 497 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text
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
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.