Subtitle B: Regulatory Provisions
Part 1: reporting and disclosure
- Section 1021: Duty of disclosure and reporting
- Section 1022: Summary plan description
- Section 1023: Annual reports
- Section 1024: Filing with Secretary and furnishing information to participants and certain employers
- Section 1025: Reporting of participant’s benefit rights
- Section 1026: Reports made public information
- Section 1027: Retention of records
- Section 1028: Reliance on administrative interpretations
- Section 1029: Forms
- Section 1030: Alternative methods of compliance
- Section 1031: Repeal and effective date
Part 2: participation and vesting
- Section 1051: Coverage
- Section 1052: Minimum participation standards
- Section 1053: Minimum vesting standards
- Section 1054: Benefit accrual requirements
- Section 1055: Requirement of joint and survivor annuity and preretirement survivor annuity
- Section 1056: Form and payment of benefits
- Section 1057: Repealed. Pub. L. 109–280, title I, § 108(d), formerly § 107(d), Aug. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 820, renumbered Pub. L. 111–192, title II, § 202(a), June 25, 2010, 124 Stat. 1297
- Section 1058: Mergers and consolidations of plans or transfers of plan assets
- Section 1059: Recordkeeping and reporting requirements
- Section 1060: Multiple employer plans and other special rules
- Section 1061: Effective dates
Part 3: funding
- Section 1081: Coverage
- Section 1082: Minimum funding standards
- Section 1083: Minimum funding standards for single-employer defined benefit pension plans
- Section 1084: Minimum funding standards for multiemployer plans
- Section 1085: Additional funding rules for multiemployer plans in endangered status or critical status
- Section 1085a: Minimum funding standards
- Section 1085b, 1086: Repealed. Pub. L. 109–280, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 784
Part 4: fiduciary responsibility
- Section 1101: Coverage
- Section 1102: Establishment of plan
- Section 1103: Establishment of trust
- Section 1104: Fiduciary duties
- Section 1105: Liability for breach of co-fiduciary
- Section 1106: Prohibited transactions
- Section 1107: Limitation with respect to acquisition and holding of employer securities and employer real property by certain plans
- Section 1108: Exemptions from prohibited transactions
- Section 1109: Liability for breach of fiduciary duty
- Section 1110: Exculpatory provisions; insurance
- Section 1111: Persons prohibited from holding certain positions
- Section 1112: Bonding
- Section 1113: Limitation of actions
- Section 1114: Effective date
Part 5: administration and enforcement
- Section 1131: Criminal penalties
- Section 1132: Civil enforcement
- Section 1133: Claims procedure
- Section 1134: Investigative authority
- Section 1135: Regulations
- Section 1136: Coordination and responsibility of agencies enforcing this subchapter and related Federal laws
- Section 1137: Administration
- Section 1138: Appropriations
- Section 1139: Separability
- Section 1140: Interference with protected rights
- Section 1141: Coercive interference
- Section 1142: Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans
- Section 1143: Research, studies, and reports
- Section 1143a: Studies by Comptroller General
- Section 1144: Other laws
- Section 1144a: Clarification of church welfare plan status under State insurance law
- Section 1145: Delinquent contributions
- Section 1146: Outreach to promote retirement income savings
- Section 1147: National Summit on Retirement Savings
- Section 1148: Authority to postpone certain deadlines by reason of Presidentially declared disaster or terroristic or military actions
- Section 1149: Prohibition on false statements and representations
- Section 1150: Applicability of State law to combat fraud and abuse
- Section 1151: Administrative summary cease and desist orders and summary seizure orders against multiple employer welfare arrangements in financially hazardous condition
Part 6: continuation coverage and additional standards for group health plans
- Section 1161: Plans must provide continuation coverage to certain individuals
- Section 1162: Continuation coverage
- Section 1163: Qualifying event
- Section 1164: Applicable premium
- Section 1165: Election
- Section 1166: Notice requirements
- Section 1167: Definitions and special rules
- Section 1168: Regulations
- Section 1169: Additional standards for group health plans
Part 7: group health plan requirements
- Subpart A: Requirements Relating to Portability, Access, and Renewability
- Section 1181: Increased portability through limitation on preexisting condition exclusions
- Section 1182: Prohibiting discrimination against individual participants and beneficiaries based on health status
- Section 1183: Guaranteed renewability in multiemployer plans and multiple employer welfare arrangements
- Subpart B: Other Requirements
- Section 1185: Standards relating to benefits for mothers and newborns
- Section 1185a: Parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits
- Section 1185b: Required coverage for reconstructive surgery following mastectomies
- Section 1185c: Coverage of dependent students on medically necessary leave of absence
- Section 1185d: Additional market reforms
- Subpart C: General Provisions