29 U.S.C. § 1143

Research, studies, and reports

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(a) Authorization to undertake research and surveys(1) The Secretary is authorized to undertake research and surveys and in connection therewith to collect, compile, analyze and publish data, information, and statistics relating to employee benefit plans, including retirement, deferred compensation, and welfare plans, and types of plans not subject to this chapter.(2) The Secretary is authorized and directed to undertake research studies relating to pension plans, including but not limited to (A) the effects of this subchapter upon the provisions and costs of pension plans, (B) the role of private pensions in meeting the economic security needs of the Nation, and (C) the operation of private pension plans including types and levels of benefits, degree of reciprocity or portability, and financial and actuarial characteristics and practices, and methods of encouraging the growth of the private pension system.(3) The Secretary may, as he deems appropriate or necessary, undertake other studies relating to employee benefit plans, the matters regulated by this subchapter, and the enforcement procedures provided for under this subchapter.(4) The research, surveys, studies, and publications referred to in this subsection may be conducted directly, or indirectly through grant or contract arrangements.(b) Omitted(c) Cooperation with Congress

The Secretary is authorized and directed to cooperate with the Congress and its appropriate committees, subcommittees, and staff in supplying data and any other information, and personnel and services, required by the Congress in any study, examination, or report by the Congress relating to pension benefit plans established or maintained by States or their political subdivisions.

(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 513, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 896.)Editorial NotesReferences in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), 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.

Codification

Subsec. (b) of this section, which required the Secretary to submit annually a report to Congress on the administration of this subchapter, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 123 of House Document No. 103–7.

Statutory Notes and Related SubsidiariesRegulations

Secretary authorized, effective Sept. 2, 1974, to promulgate regulations wherever provisions of this subchapter call for the promulgation of regulations, see section 1031 of this title.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1978–1989 · leading case: Barry v. Dymo Graphic Sys., Inc., 478 N.E.2d 707 (Mass. 1985).

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Barry v. Dymo Graphic Sys., Inc., 478 N.E.2d 707 (Mass. 1985). · cites it 2× “The court also relied on 29 U.S.C. § 1143 (a) (1) for the conclusion that certain plans are not subject to ERISA.”

Carpenters Pension Trust, Etc. v. Kronschnabel, 460 F. Supp. 978 (C.D. Cal. 1978). “See 29 U.S.C. § 1143 (1976); letter from James Hutchinson, Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs Administrator, Department of Labor, to William Barnes, California Corporations Commissioner, dated July 14, 1976, reprinted at 96 BNA Pension Rptr.”

Nat'l Metalcrafters, a Div. of Keystone Consol. Indus. v. McNeil, 602 F. Supp. 232 (N.D. Ill. 1985). “See 29 U.S.C. § 1143 (a)(1) (“there are types of plans not subject to this Act”).”

Miller v. Travelers Ins. Co., 723 F. Supp. 1345 (E.D. Mo. 1989). “" Although there is in ERISA an exemption from the general rule of preemption for laws which regulate insurance, found in 29 U.S.C. § 1143 , the Eighth Circuit has applied the Supreme Court's Pilot Life rationale to hold that claims under Missouri's vexatious refusal to pay…”

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