Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 14 — Age Discrimination in Employment
§ 624. Study by Secretary of Labor; reports to President and Congress; scope of study; implementation of study; transmittal date of reports
Statutory text
The Secretary of Labor is directed to undertake an appropriate study of institutional and other arrangements giving rise to involuntary retirement, and report his findings and any appropriate legislative recommendations to the President and to the Congress. Such study shall include—
an examination of the effect of the amendment made by section 3(a) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978 in raising the upper age limitation established by section 631(a) of this title to 70 years of age;
a determination of the feasibility of eliminating such limitation;
a determination of the feasibility of raising such limitation above 70 years of age; and
an examination of the effect of the exemption contained in section 631(c) of this title, relating to certain executive employees, and the exemption contained in section 631(d) of this title, relating to tenured teaching personnel.
The Secretary may undertake the study required by paragraph (1) of this subsection directly or by contract or other arrangement.
The report required by subsection (a) of this section shall be transmitted to the President and to the Congress as an interim report not later than , and in final form not later than .
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.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Pub. L. 90–202 § 5 · 81 Stat. 602
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 624
Pub. L. 90–202, § 5, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 604
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–202, § 5, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 604Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. study by secretary of labor The Secretary of Labor is directed to undertake an appropriate study of institutional and other arrangements giving rise to involuntary retirement, and report his findings and any appropriate legislative recommendations to the President and to the Congress.Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978
Pub. L. 95–256 § 6 · 92 Stat. 189
Amended · 29 U.S.C. § 624
Pub. L. 95–256 designated existing provisions as par. (1)
Added · 29 U.S.C. § 624
Pub. L. 95–256 added cls. (A) to (D)
Added · 29 U.S.C. § 624
Pub. L. 95–256 added par. (2)
Added · 29 U.S.C. § 624
Pub. L. 95–256 added subsec. (b)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 95–256 designated existing provisions as par. (1), added cls. (A) to (D), added par. (2), and added subsec. (b).Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. report by secretary of labor (a) (1) Section 5 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 624) is amended by inserting “(a)(1)” after the section designation, and by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “ Such study shall include— “(A) an examination of the effect of the amendment made by section 3(a) of the. Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978 in raising the upper age limitation established Ante, p. 189. by section 12(a) of this Act to 70 years of age; “(B) a determination of the feasibility of eliminating such limitation; “(C) a determination of the feasibility of raising such limitation above 70 years of age; and “(D) an examination of the effect of the exemption contained in section 12(c), relating to certain executive employees, and the exemption contained in section 12(d), relating to tenured teaching personnel.”. (2) Section 5(a) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(2) The Secretary may undertake the study required by paragraph (1) of this subsection directly or by contract or other arrangement.”. (b) Section 5 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: Transmittal to President and Congress.“(b) The report required by subsection (a) of this section shall be transmitted to the President and to the Congress as an interim report not later than January 1, 1981, and in final form not later than January 1, 1982.”.
5 of 5 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 3(a) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(A), is section 3(a) of Pub. L. 95–256, , 92 Stat. 189, which amended section 631 of this title.
Amendments
1978—Pub. L. 95–256 designated existing provisions as par. (1), added cls. (A) to (D), added par. (2), and added subsec. (b).
Study To Analyze Potential Consequences of Elimination of Mandatory Retirement on Institutions of Higher Education
Pub. L. 99–592, § 6(c), , 100 Stat. 3344, required the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, not later than 12 months after , to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for the conduct of a study to analyze the potential consequences of the elimination of mandatory retirement on institutions of higher education and to report the results of the study, with recommendations, to the President and to Congress not later than 5 years after .
Credits
1967–1978 · 2 acts
- 1967Pub. L. 90–202, § 5, , 81 Stat. 604
- 1978Pub. L. 95–256, § 6, , 92 Stat. 192.
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(Pub. L. 90–202, § 5, , 81 Stat. 604; Pub. L. 95–256, § 6, , 92 Stat. 192.)