29 U.S.C. § 1301
Definitions
United States · Title 29 — LABOR · Status: effective
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- 29 U.S.C. § 1301, Definitions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/466254
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For purposes of this subchapter, the term—
“substantial employer”, for any plan year of a single-employer plan, means one or more persons—
whose required contributions to the plan for each plan year constituting one of—
“multiemployer plan” means a plan—
“plan sponsor” means, with respect to a multiemployer plan—
in the case of a single-employer plan—
for purposes of this subparagraph, the term—
“amount of unfunded guaranteed benefits”, of a participant or beneficiary as of any date under a single-employer plan, means an amount equal to the excess of—
“amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” means, as of any date, the excess (if any) of—
“outstanding amount of benefit liabilities” means, with respect to any plan, the excess (if any) of—
“affected party” means, with respect to a plan—
For purposes of subtitle E—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to improve retirement income security under private multiemployer pension plans by strengthening the funding requirements for those plans, to authorize plan preservation measures for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans, and to revise the manner in which the pension plan termination insurance provisions apply to multiemployer plans, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: 87–7
- Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers for Relief from the Effects of Natural Disasters, for Other Urgent Needs, and for Incremental Costs of "Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm" Act of 1992
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act
- Pension Protection Act of 2006
- Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010House: 417–1Senate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015House: 219–206Senate: no recorded tally