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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. Banking Code - amend - increasing unsecured amount an institution may loan its officers or employes or its affiliates

    Act 85 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  2. Fiscal Code - amend - reconciliation or explanation of change in value of capital stock when a settlement or resettlement is made

    Act 86 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  3. Banking Code - amend - interim increases in number of directors between meetings of shareholders

    Act 87 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  4. Banking Code - amend - stock option and profit sharing plans

    Act 88 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  5. Vehicle Code - amend - changing permitted lengths of vehicles transporting school children

    Act 89 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  6. Vehicle Code - amend - changing references to State Council of Education

    Act 90 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  7. Administrative Agency Law - amend - changing references to State Council of Education, imposing duties upon State Board of Education

    Act 91 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  8. Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933 - amend - changing references to State Council of Education, imposing duties upon State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction

    Act 92 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  9. Veterans Preference Act of 1957 - amend - extending eligibility for military leave of absence to times of emergency proclaimed by Governor or President of United States

    Act 93 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  10. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - abolishing the State Council of Education, creating a State Board of Education and a Council of Basic Education and Council of Higher Education

    Act 94 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  11. County Code - amend - no elected county officer or county solicitor shall at the same time serve as treasurer or tax collector of any city, borough, incorporated town or township

    Act 95 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  12. Fiduciaries Act of 1949 - amend - qualifying certain personal representatives or trustees as guardians of estates of minors, removing a condition on certain foreign fiduciaries with respect to real estate

    Act 96 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  13. Police pension fund law of 1893 - amend - authorizing pension increases in first class cities in certain cases

    Act 97 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  14. Second Class Township Code - amend - clarifying law provisions relating to supervisors and roadmasters

    Act 98 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  15. Building and Loan Code - amend - powers, duties, rights and liabilities of association and shareholders, authorizing additional types of loans

    Act 99 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  16. State Public School Building Authority Act - amend - legislative members of authority board to continue in office until successor assumes office

    Act 100 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  17. General State Authority Act of 1949 - amend - making bonds of the authority legal investments

    Act 101 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  18. Second class A city police work hours regulation law

    Act 102 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  19. Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1933 - amend - authorizing appointment of police by cemetery corporations

    Act 103 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  20. Disabled veteran real estate tax exemption law

    Act 104 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  21. Business Corporation Law - amend - changing the references to State Council of Education

    Act 105 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  22. Municipal claim and tax lien reinstatement and enforcement law - amend - inclusion of municipality authorities

    Act 106 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  23. Administrative Agency Law - amend - prescribed procedure for regulations to become effective

    Act 107 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  24. Parking Authority Law - amend - authorizing extension of authority existence by municipal ordinance

    Act 108 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  25. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - authorizing deposits of school funds in excess of a certain percentage of the capital stock and surplus of the depository, extending the renewal date of certain contracts with professional employes

    Act 109 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  26. State employes' temporary supplemental retirement benefits law - amend - extending time for receipt of benefits

    Act 110 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  27. Sugar Lake in Crawford County motor boat use law

    Act 111 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  28. Susquehanna River bridge near Millersburg Borough construction law

    Act 112 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  29. Second class city firemen civil service law - amend - further regulating appointment, promotion, transfer, assignments and suspension of employes, inclusion of deputy chiefs, imposing penalties for violations

    Act 113 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  30. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - disposal of surplus materials salvaged from State bridges and structures

    Act 114 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  31. Second Class Township Code - amend - filling of vacancy in office of supervisor

    Act 115 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  32. Borough Code - amend - authorizing borough to provide for audits of its accounts by certain firms or persons

    Act 116 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  33. Unit Property Act

    Act 117 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  34. Game Law - amend - lawfulness of devices for hunting foxes and wild turkeys

    Act 118 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  35. Banking Code - amend - specifying requirements of bonds or obligations in which assets of mortgage funds may be invested, increasing amount of money of any one fiduciary account which may be invested in a mortgage fund

    Act 119 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  36. Schuylkill River bridge in Reading construction law

    Act 120 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  37. Public Utility Law - amend - commission may apportion the cost of construction, relocation, alteration, protection or abolition of any kind of public utility facilities at or adjacent to certain crossings of highways and transportation facilities

    Act 121 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  38. Seventh class county investment regulation law - amend - inclusion of eighth class counties, real estate sale advertising requirements, compensation of commissioners

    Act 122 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  39. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Norristown Borough, Montgomery County

    Act 123 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  40. Second class city police civil service law - amend - method of selection of courts of trial or inquiry, hearings after certain suspensions, review of examination papers, limitations on requirements which may be set for promotional examinations

    Act 124 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  41. Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority Act - amend - inclusion of research and development facilities, regulation of loans

    Act 125 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  42. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in Allentown, Lehigh County

    Act 126 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  43. Penal Code - amend - prohibiting fraudulent actions relating to licensing, registration or certification of persons

    Act 127 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  44. Kennywood Bridge - official designation (Route 736, Duquesne City, West Mifflin Borough, Allegheny County)

    Act 128 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  45. County Code - amend - qualifications for elected county officers and elected or appointed district attorneys

    Act 129 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  46. Statute of limitation of action for escheat or payment without escheat law

    Act 130 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  47. Penal Code - amend - aggravated assault and battery upon police officer constitutes a felony

    Act 131 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  48. Conveyance - Commonwealth easement on property in Windsor Township, Berks County, to Hamburg Borough

    Act 132 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  49. Bituminous Coal Open Pit Mining Conservation Act - amend - licenses, permits, consent by landowners, backfilling and planting, creating Land Reclamation Board and Bureau of Conservation and Reclamation, private actions, penalties, sanctions

    Act 133 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  50. Pennsylvania Harness Racing Law - amend - imposing temporary taxes for general school purposes in first class school districts

    Act 134 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  51. Bellefonte Borough division into wards law - repeal of law

    Act 135 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  52. Pennsylvania Harness Racing Law - amend - stockholder information dockets, prohibiting certain persons from having an interest in pari-mutuel racing activities, attendance at race meetings by minors, enforcement rules

    Act 136 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  53. Vehicle Code - amend - special permits for oversized vehicles hauling boats or transporting mobile homes

    Act 137 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  54. Second Class City Law - amend - compiling, codifying, recodifying and reenacting ordinances

    Act 138 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  55. Port of Philadelphia board of wardens supplement law - amend - rates of pilotage

    Act 139 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  56. Juniata River bridge near Kistler Borough construction law

    Act 140 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  57. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - requiring complete accounting of receipts and disbursements of political subdivisions

    Act 141 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  58. Criminal Procedure Act of 1860 - amend - shoplifting fines erroneously paid to a municipality to be paid to State for use of the county in which fine was imposed

    Act 142 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  59. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - authorizing leasing of property under supervision of Department of Public Welfare for sanitary land fills

    Act 143 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  60. Vehicle Code - amend - prohibiting parking vehicles and tractors on private property and authorizing their removal

    Act 144 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  61. Vehicle Code - amend - extending validity of liens and encumbrances without renewal to five years

    Act 145 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  62. Pennsylvania Election Code - amend - increasing compensation of election officers in third to eighth class counties in certain cases

    Act 146 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  63. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - regulating dismissal, suspension, demotion and reenlistment of Pennsylvania State Police enlisted personnel

    Act 147 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  64. Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - court martial board action required to dismiss or demote Pennsylvania State Police enlisted personnel

    Act 148 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  65. Borough Code - amend - excluding from bid requirements certain borough property sold to nonprofit corporations engaged in community industrial development

    Act 149 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  66. Intestate Act of 1947 - amend - rights of spouse in real estate conveyed by decedent without joinder of spouse

    Act 150 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  67. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - separate computation of tuition for junior and senior high pupils at request of receiving district

    Act 151 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  68. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - emergency evacuation drills on school buses

    Act 152 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  69. Third Class City Code - amend - time for bringing assumpsit actions to recover municipal claims

    Act 153 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  70. County Code - amend - regulating contributions by county commissioners toward funeral expenses of deceased service persons and their spouses

    Act 154 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  71. First class A school district temporary personal property tax law - amend - exclusion of property under retirement plans

    Act 155 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  72. First class school district personal property tax - amend - exclusion of property under retirement plans

    Act 156 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  73. Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - exclusion of property under retirement plans

    Act 157 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  74. State Personal Property Tax Act - amend - excluding property held under retirement plan

    Act 158 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  75. Wills Act of 1947 - amend - payment of inheritance tax

    Act 159 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  76. Fiduciaries Act of 1949 - amend - calculation of compensation of trustee

    Act 160 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  77. Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act - amend - including certain cases relating to taxation

    Act 161 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  78. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - prohibiting certain elected controllers and auditors from employment in school districts

    Act 162 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  79. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - fee to Department of Property and Supplies on account of rentals of certain buildings

    Act 163 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  80. Third Class City Code - amend - increasing authorized rate of tax in certain cases

    Act 164 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  81. Vehicle Code - amend - authorizing operation of vehicle of deceased under certain conditions

    Act 165 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  82. Vehicle Code - amend - requiring facsimile seals on registration cards and operators' license cards rather than facsimile signatures

    Act 166 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  83. Foreign Casualty Insurance Premium Tax Allocation Law - amend - payments when municipality provides police protection to another municipality

    Act 167 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  84. Principal and Income Act of 1947 - amend - increment in value of United States Treasury bills as income

    Act 168 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  85. Public School Code of 1949 - amend - right of principals and vice-principals to exercise authority over pupils

    Act 169 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  86. Soil Conservation Law - amend - appointment of non-farmer directors to board

    Act 170 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  87. Vehicle Code - amend - authorizing operation of uninspected vehicles by garagemen in certain cases

    Act 171 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  88. Support Law - amend - liability for and recovery of payments for medical assistance for the aged (1963/0/0361) (67)

    Act 172 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  89. Public Assistance Law - amend - medical assistance for the aged of persons sixty-five years of age or older

    Act 173 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  90. Public Assistance Law - amend - eligibility for medical assistance for the aged

    Act 174 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  91. Wills Act of 1947 - amend - removing provisions relating to lien of pecuniary legacies

    Act 175 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  92. Second Class Township Code - amend - increasing millage of annual tax for road, bridge and general township purposes

    Act 176 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  93. Second Class County Code - amend - regulating making of contracts

    Act 177 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  94. Inheritance and Estate Tax Act - amend - uniform tax treatment of resident and nonresident presumed decedents, payment of tax from residuary estate, lien of taxes on property sold by a fiduciary

    Act 178 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  95. Wills Act of 1947 - amend - appointment of guardian for property passing to minor by intestacy

    Act 179 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  96. Borough Code - amend - increasing maximum amount of annual tax for general borough purposes

    Act 180 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  97. Conveyance - Commonwealth property in East Allen Township, Northampton County - repeal of law

    Act 181 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  98. State College Faculty Compensation Law - amend - increasing minimum compensation and increments, changing conditions of payment

    Act 182 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  99. Consumer Discount Company Act - amend - licenses, licensee powers, penalties

    Act 183 of 1963 · 1963 · Original text

  100. Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 - amend - purposes for which authorities may be created in relation to industrial development projects

    Act 184 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.