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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program

§ 1309. Portability assistance

Statutory text

The corporation shall provide advice and assistance to individuals with respect to evaluating the economic desirability of establishing individual retirement accounts or other forms of individual retirement savings for which a deduction is allowable under section 219 of title 26 and with respect to evaluating the desirability, in particular cases, of transferring amounts representing an employee’s interest in a qualified plan to such an account upon the employee’s separation from service with an employer.

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 IV § 4009 · 88 Stat. 829

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 1309

    Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4009, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 1014

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4009, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 1014

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4009. portability assistance The corporation shall provide advice and assistance to 29 USC 1309. individuals with respect to evaluating the economic desirability of establishing individual retirement accounts or other forms of individual retirement savings for which a deduction is allowable under section 219 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and with respect to evaluating Ante, p. 958. the desirability, in particular cases, of transferring amounts representing an employee’s interest in a qualified plan to such an account upon the employee’s separation from service with an employer.

  2. Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1989

    Pub. L. 101–239 title VII § 7891(a)(1) · 103 Stat. 2106

    Substituted · 29 U.S.C. § 1309

    Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”, which for purposes of codification was translated as “title 26” thus requiring no change in text

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”, which for purposes of codification was translated as “title 26” thus requiring no change in text.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Titles I, III, and IV of ERISA (other than sections 3(37)(E), 29 USC 1001 et seq. 301(a)(7), and 308, the last sentence of section 408(d), and sections 414(c), 4001(a)(3)(ii), and 4303) are each amended by striking “Internal Revenue Code of 1954” each place it appears and inserting “Internal Revenue Code of 1986”.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 101–239 effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99–514, to which such amendment relates, see section 7891(f) of Pub. L. 101–239, set out as a note under section 1002 of this title.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1989—Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”, which for purposes of codification was translated as “title 26” thus requiring no change in text.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1989 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 101–239 effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99–514, to which such amendment relates, see section 7891(f) of Pub. L. 101–239, set out as a note under section 1002 of this title.

Credits

1974–1989 · 2 acts
  1. 1974Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4009, , 88 Stat. 1014
  2. 1989Pub. L. 101–239, title VII, § 7891(a)(1), , 103 Stat. 2445.
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(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4009, , 88 Stat. 1014; Pub. L. 101–239, title VII, § 7891(a)(1), , 103 Stat. 2445.)

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