US state regulation
Pennsylvania
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Pennsylvania - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 34/100 Below median
- Regulations tracked
- 2 Below median
- Enacted into law
- 2
- Categories regulated
- 1/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 2 enacted · 1/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Pennsylvania sits in the lower tracker-score band - 2 enacted regulations across 1 of 5 tracked policy areas, with a portal tracker score of 34/100, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 34/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 2
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 2
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Pennsylvania legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Pennsylvania's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 2 Tracked rows in archive
- 2 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 34/100 Portal tracker score
- #35 Of 51 by volume
- #26 Of 51 by tracker score
- Alabama Nearest volume peer 2 rows
- 1 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Pennsylvania's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Pennsylvania is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Policy coverage
Pennsylvania enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Pennsylvania's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Pennsylvania regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Pennsylvania's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Pennsylvania's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
57/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 2 tracked
57th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- C 34/100
65th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- D 1 categories
45th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act
43 P.S. 333.104 Effective: 2009-07-24Pennsylvania minimum wage equals federal: $7.25/hr. Tipped: $2.83/hr. Multiple legislative attempts to increase have failed.
Philadelphia Salary History Ban
Bill No. 160840 Effective: 2019-02-01Philadelphia city-only ordinance banning salary history inquiries. Note: state preemption attempted but courts upheld ordinance.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Pennsylvania
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Pennsylvania (LIGHT · LOWER · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT LOWER QUIET WORKER-LED
Alabama · LIGHT
Alabama tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Pennsylvania); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Maine · LIGHT
Maine tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Pennsylvania); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
North Dakota · LIGHT
North Dakota tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Pennsylvania); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Oklahoma · LIGHT
Oklahoma tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Pennsylvania); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Delaware (MID score pole)
Delaware sits near Pennsylvania on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps LOWER.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Pennsylvania's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (2 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Pennsylvania state-rule registry · 2017 Pennsylvania: 2 tracked · 2 enacted · tracker 34/100 (LIGHT/LOWER). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Pennsylvania's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.