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Title 29 — Labor

Part 5 · Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program

§ 1138. Appropriations

Statutory text

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his functions and duties under this chapter.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

    Pub. L. 93–406 title I § 508 · 88 Stat. 829

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 1138

    (Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 508, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 895.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 508, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 895.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 508. appropriations There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such 29 USC 1138. sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his functions and duties under this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–406, known as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Titles I, III, and IV of such Act are classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Regulations

Secretary authorized, effective , to promulgate regulations wherever provisions of this subchapter call for the promulgation of regulations, see section 1031 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 508, , 88 Stat. 895.)

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