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Title 29 — Labor

Part 1 · Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program

§ 1394. Application of plan amendments; exception

Statutory text

(a)

No plan rule or amendment adopted after , under section 1389 or 1391(c) of this title may be applied without the employer’s consent with respect to liability for a withdrawal or partial withdrawal which occurred before the date on which the rule or amendment was adopted.

(b)

All plan rules and amendments authorized under this part shall operate and be applied uniformly with respect to each employer, except that special provisions may be made to take into account the creditworthiness of an employer. The plan sponsor shall give notice to all employers who have an obligation to contribute under the plan and to all employee organizations representing employees covered under the plan of any plan rules or amendments adopted pursuant to this section.

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 § 4214 · 88 Stat. 829

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 1394

    (Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4214, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 104(2), Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1234.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4214, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 104(2), Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1234.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4214, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 104(2), , 94 Stat. 1234.)

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