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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. Pharmacy Act

    Act 699 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  2. Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949 - amend - authorized investments in corporate bonds and stocks

    Act 700 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  3. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - defining superannuation retirement age for retirement of enforcement personnel of Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board as members of Class C

    Act 701 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  4. Liquor Code - amend - increase in certain fees, annual transfer of certain moneys from State Stores Fund to State Employes' Retirement Fund

    Act 702 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  5. Public Official Compensation Law - amend - increasing salaries of certain judges

    Act 703 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  6. Uniform Securities Ownership By Minors Act

    Act 704 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  7. Board of Arbitration of Claims Act - amend - board composition and powers, appointment of executive secretary and other employes, changing limitations on filing of claims, rules of procedure before board, appeals, making an appropriation

    Act 705 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  8. Vehicle Code - amend - permitting vehicles used by persons collecting news to be equipped with a warning light

    Act 706 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  9. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - school nurse services and reimbursements

    Act 707 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  10. Auctioneers' License Act

    Act 708 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  11. Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - changing provisions relating to liability of employers and benefits and persons entitled thereto

    Act 709 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  12. Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act - amend - changing provisions relating to liability of employers and benefits and persons entitled thereto

    Act 710 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  13. Optional Third Class City Charter Law - amend - cities may provide for hearing of appeals from assessments and revision thereof by administrative procedure

    Act 711 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  14. Lobbying Registration Act

    Act 712 of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  15. Appropriation Law 5A (General Appropriation Act of 1961)

    Appropriation Act of 1961 · 1961 · Original text

  16. Appropriation Laws 1A (General Appropriation Act of 1962)

    Appropriation Act of 1962 · 1962 · Original text

  17. Legislative Journal law - amend - printing

    Act 1 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  18. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Indiana Borough, Indiana County - amend - disposition of proceeds to Motor License Fund

    Act 2 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  19. Second Class County Port Authority Act - amend - purposes for which grants and loans may be made, demonstration projects without meeting filing and recording requirements, time of filing plans for establishing an integrated transportation system

    Act 3 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  20. First Class Township Code - amend - increasing millage of annual tax for general township purposes

    Act 4 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  21. Commission to plan state and local administration of public welfare services law - amend - extending time for commission to report to Governor and General Assembly

    Act 5 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  22. Second Class Township Code - amend - election of vice-chairman of board of supervisors

    Act 6 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  23. Second Class Township Code - amend - supervision of township affairs

    Act 7 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  24. Courts of justice organization law - amend - prohibiting judges from receiving fee or emolument for acting as arbitrator

    Act 8 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  25. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - authorizing Department of Property and Supplies to accept real estate for educational purposes with approval of Governor

    Act 9 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  26. Vehicle Code - amend - deleting provisions relating to marking of commercial vehicles with names and addresses

    Act 10 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  27. Vehicle Code - amend - providing for one wheel brakes where vehicle is constructed with three wheels

    Act 11 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  28. Borough Code - amend - compensation of members of council

    Act 12 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  29. School real property defective auction sale validation law

    Act 13 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  30. Kiskiminetas Bridge construction authorization law - enactment (Armstrong and Westmoreland Counties)

    Act 14 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  31. Municipal flood control law - amend - authorizing arrangements and agreements with other public authorities, removing prohibition upon municipalities to construct dams for flood control or other purposes, changing bidding requirements

    Act 15 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  32. Second Class Township Code - amend - number of supervisors required for a quorum, majority vote of supervisors required to transact business

    Act 16 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  33. Blind veterans pension law

    Act 17 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  34. Inheritance and Estate Tax Act - amend - entry into safe deposit boxes held in the names of decedent and spouse

    Act 18 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  35. Vehicle Code - amend - requiring certificates of exemption from registration for certain vehicles, operation of exempt vehicles on highways

    Act 19 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  36. Selective Sales and Use Tax Act - amend - exclusion of vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers purchased by nonresidents for use and registration in another state

    Act 20 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  37. First Class Township Code - amend - authorizing county and joint county associations of township officers to hold quarterly conventions

    Act 21 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  38. Vehicle Code - amend - prohibiting driving without lights to avoid identification

    Act 22 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  39. Second Class Township Code - amend - increasing maximum compensation of auditors and additional time for audits

    Act 23 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  40. Municipal historic districts law - amend - removing residence requirements for members of board of historical architectural review

    Act 24 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  41. County Code - amend - eliminating necessity for judicial approval of plans and specifications for construction and alteration of county buildings other than court houses, county jails, prisons, workhouses and detention homes

    Act 25 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  42. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Plymouth Borough, Luzerne County

    Act 26 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  43. Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law - amend - appointment of members of Board of Assessment and Revision of Taxes in fourth class counties

    Act 27 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  44. Penal Code - amend - illegal sale of veterans' flowers offense extended to Jewish war veterans

    Act 28 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  45. Borough Code - amend - ordinances attached to but not recorded in ordinance book considered in force, validating certain borough records

    Act 29 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  46. Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - charging and disposition of tapping fees for sewer systems and water mains

    Act 30 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  47. Fiduciaries Act of 1949 - amend - register's right to authorize administration of oaths to certain witnesses

    Act 31 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  48. Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act - amend - extension to records held in fiduciary or custodial capacity, reproduction requirements

    Act 32 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  49. Financial institution records preservation and use law - amend - preservation of records concerning activities as fiduciary, agent, attorney in fact, transfer or fiscal agent or registrar of shares, bonds or other obligations, reproduction requirements

    Act 33 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  50. Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949 - amend - authorized investments in interest-bearing deposits

    Act 34 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  51. Second Class Township Code - amend - penalizing auditors having interest in township transactions

    Act 35 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  52. County Code - amend - authorizing additional appropriations to agricultural or horticultural societies wherever located

    Act 36 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  53. Pennsylvania Harness Racing Law - amend - establishment of State Harness Racing Commission as departmental administrative board in Department of Agriculture, appropriations to State Harness Racing Fund

    Act 37 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  54. Montgomery County State highway construction study and survey law

    Act 38 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  55. Liquid Fuels Tax Act - amend - payment of viewers' compensation from county liquid fuels tax funds

    Act 39 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  56. Fiduciaries Act of 1949 - amend - increasing payments that can be made by employers to heirs of deceased employees, payments of accrued vacation benefits paid by employer to spouse or other designated relatives of deceased

    Act 40 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  57. Pennsylvania Cigarette Tax Act - amend - increasing the rate of tax and commission allowed to tax affixing agencies

    Act 41 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  58. Local Government Commission Law - amend - appointment, terms and organization of commission members

    Act 42 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  59. Selective Sales and Use Tax Act - amend - changing short title, scope and purpose of law

    Act 43 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  60. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - creating Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs and transferring functions from Department of Public Instruction

    Act 44 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  61. Public Official Compensation Law - amend - compensation of Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs

    Act 45 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  62. Second Class Township Code - amend - compensation of township secretaries and treasurers

    Act 46 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  63. Second Class Township Code - amend - authorization and validity of business conducted at organizational meeting on first Monday of January

    Act 47 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  64. Third Class City Code - amend - validating prior ordinances attached to but not recorded in ordinance book

    Act 48 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  65. Second Class Township Code - amend - validating prior ordinances attached to but not recorded in ordinance book

    Act 49 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  66. Third Class City Code - amend - qualification of members of board of health

    Act 50 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  67. Vehicle Code - amend - regulating height of vehicles carrying boats

    Act 51 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  68. Fifth through eighth class county retirement law - amend - authorizing contracts with insurance companies to administer county retirement fund in certain cases

    Act 52 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  69. State Employes' Retirement Code of 1959 - amend - authorizing assignment of rights as security for loans and fines

    Act 53 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  70. Urban Redevelopment Law - amend - authorizing use of facsimile signatures under certain conditions

    Act 54 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  71. City and town veterans observances expenses appropriation authorization law - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans

    Act 55 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  72. Third Class City Code - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans for certain purposes

    Act 56 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  73. Vehicle Code - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans for fee exemption purposes

    Act 57 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  74. County veterans burial records compilation and preservation law - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans

    Act 58 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  75. First class county deceased veteran funeral expense assistance law - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans

    Act 59 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  76. Penal Code - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans relating to certain offenses

    Act 60 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  77. Veterans affairs affidavits and acknowledgments taking authorization law - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans

    Act 61 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  78. War veterans conventions records publication and distribution law - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans

    Act 62 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  79. County Code - amend - extending Memorial Day expense appropriation to World War I veterans

    Act 63 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  80. Disabled soldier free peddling license law - amend - inclusion of World War I veterans

    Act 64 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  81. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Phoenixville Borough, Chester County, in exchange for other property

    Act 65 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  82. Second Class County Code - amend - editorial correction in section heading

    Act 66 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  83. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Potter Township, Centre County

    Act 67 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  84. Emergency liquor tax law - amend - increasing rate of tax

    Act 68 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  85. Delaware River Joint Commission law 1963 supplement law

    Act 69 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  86. Banking Code - amend - eliminating certain provisions relating to foreign corporate fiduciaries

    Act 70 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  87. Washington Crossing Park law - amend - maintenance of bird banding station and nature study center

    Act 71 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  88. Blue and Gray Highway - official designation (State Route 15 from Maryland to Harrisburg)

    Act 72 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  89. County firemen's associations county appropriation authorization law

    Act 73 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  90. Game Law - amend - regulating killing of dogs while in pursuit of elk or deer

    Act 74 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  91. Land acquisition - acquisition of Commonwealth property in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County, for Slippery Rock State College

    Act 75 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  92. Vehicle Code - amend - authorizing second class townships to impound and remove illegally parked vehicles

    Act 76 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  93. Incompetents' Estates Act of 1955 - amend - authorizing a trust fund to pay funeral expenses of incompetents

    Act 77 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  94. Second Class Township Code - amend - reassessment of after-built property, tax liability of owner

    Act 78 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  95. Game Law - amend - hunting and trapping violations

    Act 79 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  96. Borough Code - amend - reassessment of after-built property, tax liability of owner

    Act 80 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  97. Second Class County Code - amend - contributions by commissioners toward funeral expenses of deceased service persons and their spouses

    Act 81 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  98. Fiduciaries Act of 1949 - amend - family exemption

    Act 82 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  99. Incompetents' Estates Act of 1955 - amend - redefining guardian to include guardian of the person

    Act 83 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  100. Register of Wills Act of 1951 - amend - right of register to administer oaths or affidavits outside his jurisdiction

    Act 84 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

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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.