Pennsylvania Bulletin
The Pennsylvania Bulletin is a weekly journal produced by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Created on a weekly basis by staff in the Legislative Reference Bureau of Pennsylvania, which is housed at the Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this publication serves as "the Commonwealth's official gazette for information and rulemaking" and is released for public consumption each Friday at 9 a.m. It lists the recent changes made to various agency rules and regulations within Pennsylvania's state government system and serves as a supplement to the "Pennsylvania Code". History. In 1968, legislators of the Commonwealth of  Pennsylvania realized that improvements needed to be made in the way changes to state laws were communicated to state employees and members of the general public. In response, they passed the Commonwealth Documents Law (CDL) (P.L. 769, No. 240) (45 P.S. §§ 1102–1208) on July 31, 1968, establishing the "Pennsylvania Code" and the "Pennsylvania Bulletin". According to the Commonwealth's style manual for the "Bulletin", "It also provided a means by which interested citizens could participate in the making of policy before it was adopted." According to Title 45, Chapter 7 of the Consolidated Statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ("Codification  and Publication of Documents"), it is the Legislative Reference Bureau's responsibility "to compile, edit and supplement or to contract through the department for the compilation, editing and supplementation of an official legal codification, to be divided into titles of convenient size and scope, and to be known as the 'Pennsylvania Code'"; the bureau performs this function under "the policy supervision and direction of the joint committee." Contents. Defined by Section 702 of Title 45 of the Consolidated Statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ("Codification and Publication of Documents"), the contents of the Pennsylvania Code, which are published in the  Pennsylvania Bulletin, include: Additionally, "[e]xcept as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the joint committee," these other documents may also be published in the "Pennsylvania Bulletin":