Following is a list of statutes enacted in 2003 arranged according to their act number. Notice that although each new law has an act number, it also is referred to by a bill number assigned either by the Pennsylvania Senate or the Pennsylvania House of Representatives when it was introduced, and also by the printer number (to distinguish final enactments from previous versions of the same legislation). The printer number distinguishes the final enactment, to which an Act number is assigned, and therefore is the item to which a link has been made by this web page.
Statutes Enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 2003 | |||||
| Act number | Enactment date | Bill number | Printer number | Effective date | Subject matter |
| 2003-1 | May 8 | SB0532 | PN0731 | immediately | Liquor Code--sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores and liquor licensees, retail dispensers' restrictions and unlawful acts. |
| 2003-2 | May 19 | SB0582 | PN0817 | immediately | Capital Budget Project Itemization Act for 2002-2003--enactment. |
| 2003-3 | Jun 10 | HB0266 | PN0992 | immediately | Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act--prohibited acts and penalties. |
| 2003-4 | Jun 10 | HB0267 | PN0993 | immediately | Crimes Code (18 Pa.C.S.)--drug trafficking, sentencing and penalties. |
| 2003-5 | Jun 17 | HB0235 | PN0264 | July 1, 2003 | Game Code (34 Pa.C.S.)--age of holders of falconry permits and disabled person permits. |
| 2003-6 | Jun 17 | HB0331 | PN0377 | immediately | Game Code (34 Pa.C.S.)--disabled person permits for bow and arrow or crossbow. |
| 2003-7 | Jun 30 | HB1406 | PN2218 | immediately | Medicare Hospital Service Payment Designation Act--enactment. |
| 2003-8 | Jun 30 | HB1105 | PN2167 | immediately with exceptions | Military and Veterans Code (51 Pa.C.S.)--composition and expiration of Pennsylvania Veterans' Memorial Commission and administration of Pennsylvania Veterans' Memorial Trust Fund. |
| 2003-9 | Jul 6 | SB0340 | PN0785 | immediately | Samuel E. Hayes, Jr., Livestock Evaluation Center--designation. |
| 2003-10 | Jul 6 | SB0259 | PN0265 | 60 days | Vehicle Code (75 Pa.C.S.)--protective equipment for motorcycle riders. |
| 2003-11 | Jul 6 | HB0651 | PN2166 | immediately with exceptions | Township State Highway Law--adding Piketown Road, West Hanover Township, Dauphin County, and Colebrook Road, East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, to the State highway system. |
| 2003-12 | Jul 17 | SB0044 | PN1082 | immediately | Conveyance--Commonwealth property in Dauphin and Philadelphia Counties. |
| 2003-13 | Jul 17 | SB0277 | PN0284 | 60 days | Third class cities--residency requirements for firemen, fire alarm operators and fire box inspectors. |
| 2003-14 | Jul 17 | SB0387 | PN1076 | immediately | Health Care Cost Containment Act--powers and duties of council, submission, collection and dissemination of data, mandated health benefits, access to council data, enforcement and penalty and expiration. |
| 2003-15 | Jul 17 | HB0782 | PN2384 | immediately with exceptions | Liquor Code--omnibus amendments. |
| 2003-16 | Jul 31 | HB0745 | PN2382 | immediately | Conveyance--Commonwealth property in Warren County. |
| 2003-17 | Jul 31 | HB2383 | PN2383 | immediately | Volunteer Fire Company and Volunteer Ambulance Service Grant Act--enactment. |
| 2003-18 | Aug 5 | SB0506 | PN1049 | immediately | Conveyance--Commonwealth property in Washington County. |
| 2003-19 | Aug 5 | SB0201 | PN1079 | 60 days | Walter J. Dealtrey Memorial Highway, Charles R. McDevitt Highway and Farrell Jackson Exit--designations. |
| 2003-20 | Aug 14 | SB0442 | PN1044 | immediately | Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law- omnibus amendments. |
| 2003-21 | Aug 14 | SB0521 | PN1108 | 180 days | Judicial Code (42 Pa.C.S.)--assessment and commitment of certain sexually violent persons. |
| 2003-22 | Sep 12 | HB0276 | PN2326 | immediately | Telemarketer Registration Act--unwanted telephone solicitation calls. |
| 2003-22 | Sep 24 | HB1148 | PN2160 | immediately | General Local Government Code (53 Pa.C.S.)--scope of unfunded debt, number of interest rates, treatment of debt costs upon refunding and interest rate risk and interest cost management. |
| 2003-23 | Sep 30 | SB1173 | PN1173 | Sep 30, 2003, with exceptions | Crimes Code (18 Pa.C.S.), Judicial Code (42 Pa.C.S.) and Vehicle Code (75 Pa.C.S.)--impairment due to alcohol or controlled substances, Department of Transportation records and investigation by police officers. |
| 2003-24 | Sep 30 | HB0297 | PN2623 | immediately, with exceptions | Public Welfard Code--nursing facility assessments and Kinship Care Program. |
| 2003-25 | Oct 3 | HB0089 | PN0108 | immediately | Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code (20 Pa.C.S.)--share of surviving spouse. |
| 2003-26 | Oct 3 | HB0318 | PN0364 | 60 days | Repeals--obsolete law relating to spread of rabies, authorization to quarantine, restrain, confine or muzzle dogs during outbreaks of rabies and powers of State Livestock Sanitary Board. |
| 2003-27 | Oct 3 | SB0265 | PN0587 | 90 days | Consumers' Continuity of Care Act--enactment. |
| 2003-29 | Oct 23 | HB0077 | PN2634 | 60 days | General Local Government Code (53 Pa.C.S.)--initiative of electors seeking consolidation or merger without home rule or with new home rule charter, conduct of referenda and consolidation or merger agreements. |
| 2003-30 | Oct 23 | SB0846 | PN1033 | immediately | Project 70 lands--Willistown Township, Chester County, release and imposition of restrictions. |
| 2003-31 | Oct 31 | SB0164 | PN1222 | 60 days | Judicial Code (42 Pa.C.S.)--court authority upon petition to remove child from foster parent and criminal victim aid good Samaritan civil immunity. |
| 2003-32 | Nov 6 | SB0461 | PN1191 | immediately | Walters Drive--designation. |
| 2003-33 | Nov 6 | HB1549 | PN2468 | 60 days | Transportation (74 Pa.C.S.)--Designation of Governor Robert P. Casey Highway and State Route 120 as scenic byways. |
| 2003-34 | Nov 6 | HB1757 | PN1757 | July 1, 2003 | Job Enhancement Act--Technology Work Experience Internship Program. |
| 2003-35 | Nov 25 | HB0106 | PN0126 | 60 days | Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist Registration Law--licensing. |
| 2003-36 | Nov 25 | HB0786 | PN2708 | 60 days | Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code (20 Pa.C.S.)--powers of attorney. |
| 2003-37 | Nov 26 | HB0888 | PN2919 | immediately with exceptions | State Lottery Law--omnibus amendments. |
| 2003-38 | Nov 26 | SB0068 | PN1223 | immediately | Capital Budget Act of 2003-2004 enactment. |
| 2003-39 | Dec 2 | HB1854 | PN2415 | immediately | General County Assessment Law, The- valuation of property. |
| 2003-40 | Dec 10 | HB0085 | PN3060 | immediately with exceptions | Education (24 Pa.C.S.) and State Government (71 Pa.C.S.)--actuarial cost method and class of service for bail commissioners. |
The effective dates specified above for laws and appropriation acts were contained in the applicable law or appropriation act. Where no date is specified or where the effective date specified is prior to the date of enactment, the effective date is 60 days after final enactment except for statutes making appropriations or affecting budgets of political subdivisions. See 1 Pa.C.S. §§Ê1701-1704 (relating to effective dates of statutes).
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