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The Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) is a nonpartisan legislative service bureau serving the members and staff of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The agency prepares bills, amendments, resolutions, and citations for introduction by members of the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives during each two-year legislative session.

History
In a message to the legislature on January 5, 1909, Governor Edwin S. Stuart remarked that it is unreasonable to expect that members of the General Assembly should be preparing bills upon every subject that may come before the Senate or House of Representatives. To provide the legislature with every reasonable assistance, Governor Stuart recommended the establishment of a legislative reference department. The Legislative Reference Bureau was established by the act of April 27, 1909 (P.L.208, No.143). It was reorganized as a legislative agency by the act of May 7, 1923 (P.L.158, No.119).