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The Pennsylvania General Assembly

Search legislation, find out who your legislator is, view session calendars and meeting schedules, subscribe for Daily Session Updates, as well as other PA law information. You can also find links to learn about Pennsylvania history.

General Assembly Mobile-Friendly Website

The General Assembly now also provides http://www.palegis.us, a mobile friendly website where you can access bill information and text, find your legislator, find information on standing committees, and view upcoming session information.

The Pennsylvania Senate

Access session information such as Senate session notes, journals, roll call votes and transcripts and view information on how to contact your local Senator. You can also view the Senate in session live via the online video stream.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Access session information such as Daily Session Reports, journals, roll call votes and transcripts and view information on how to contact your local representative. You can also view the House of Representatives in session live via the online video stream.

Pennsylvania State Capitol

Information on visiting and touring the Capitol Complex.

Capitol Preservation Committee

The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee has served as historic guardian with the mission to direct programs to restore, preserve, and maintain the Pennsylvania State Capitol.

Center for Rural Pennsylvania

The Center for Rural Pennsylvania is a bipartisan, bicameral legislative agency that serves as a resource for rural policy within the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC)

IRRC's website provides easy access to a wealth of public information on regulations, the regulatory process and related information. You can directly access or search for regulatory materials including current rulemakings, public and legislative comments, and IRRC comments, orders, public meeting information and seminars.

Joint Conservation Committee

The Joint Conservation Committee is a bipartisan committee consisting of 18 members of the state House and Senate which conducts studies, holds hearings and makes recommendations to the General assembly on air and water pollution laws, mining practices and land reclamation.

Joint State Government Commission

The Commission provides the General Assembly with a readily available mechanism for conducting objective interdisciplinary studies.

Legislative Budget and Finance Committee

Read reports and facts sheets published by the committee since 1988

Legislative Reference Bureau

The primary purpose of the Bureau is to prepare requested legislative bills and resolutions for introduction in the General Assembly; to advise members of the Legislature and legislative committees; and, from time to time, to prepare proposed codifications of existing general statutes for adoption or rejection by the General Assembly.

Pennsylvania Commission On Sentencing

The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing is an agency of the General Assembly affiliated with The Pennsylvania State University. The Commission was created in 1978 for the primary purpose of creating a consistent and rational statewide sentencing policy to promote fairer and more uniform sentencing practices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Local Government Commission

The Pennsylvania Local Government Commission is a bipartisan legislative service agency affording research assistance to the General Assembly, collectively, and to individual Legislators as well..

Other useful resources

Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts

Provides a wealth of information from and about the Pennsylvania courts

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

The official website for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Office of Open Records

The Mission of the Office of Open Records is to enforce the state’s Right-to-Know law and to serve as a resource for citizens, public officials and members of the media in obtaining public records of their government.