Compiling sources issued before final passage of a bill is essential to implementing a search.
Bills are proposed legislation.
They reflect the text of a legislative concept and name the sponsors of specific legislation. A knowledge of when the specific language was added in the bill or the persons responsible for introducing the legislation can be beneficial in determining intent. Pennsylvania House and Senate Bills are numbered in the order in which they are introduced. Printer's numbers are assigned in accordance with the committee referral dates listed in the History and changed whenever an amendment is adopted to the bill. Then bills become acts they lose their original bill number and are listed by the act number and the year in which they are passed.