Law -- Pennsylvania Statutory Law

The Laws of Pennsylvania are available in two versions. 

• The chronological version:  The Laws of Pennsylvania
• The codified version (Purdon's Pennsylvnaia Statutes Annotated)

Only the codified versions are available through Penn State subscription databases.  See internet resources below for the Laws of Pennsylvania on the web.

• Westlaw Campus (codified statutes) -- A more browseable version of the codified state statutes.  Westlaw updates the database whenever new legislation becomes law.  Westlaw also provides extensive notes on the history of the law, links to court cases, legal encyclopedia articles, and law review articles.

LexisNexis State Capital  (codified statutes)
Please note: In LexisNexis, each record consists of a single section ( § ) of the statutes. A single section is usually comprized of one or more brief sentences of text. The search result will present individual sections without the context of other sections with which they are associated. Users may want to start with a search in LexisNexis, then consult print versions of statutes to help them develop a clearer understanding of the statute as a whole.  Updated whenever new legislation becomes law.

Legislation that is still moving through the Legislature or which very recently passed is also available online

• Pennsylvania General Assembly web site.
• LexisNexis State Capital (Penn State users only)