US Code

Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

29 U.S.C. § 1453

Election of plan status

(a)

Authority, time, and criteria

Within one year after , a multiemployer plan may irrevocably elect, pursuant to procedures established by the corporation, that the plan shall not be treated as a multiemployer plan for any purpose under this chapter or the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, if for each of the last 3 plan years ending prior to the effective date of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980—
(1)
section 1002(37)(A)(iii) of this titlesection 414(f)(1)(C) of title 26 the plan was not a multiemployer plan because the plan was not a plan described in and (as such provisions were in effect on the day before ); and
(2)
the plan had been identified as a plan that was not a multiemployer plan in substantially all its filings with the corporation, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the Treasury.
(b)

Requirements

An election described in subsection (a) shall be effective only if—
(1)
the plan is amended to provide that it shall not be treated as a multiemployer plan for all purposes under this chapter and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and
(2)
written notice of the amendment is provided to the corporation within 60 days after the amendment is adopted.
(c)

Effective date

An election described in subsection (a) shall be treated as being effective as of .

Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4303Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 108(f)94 Stat. 1270(, as added , , .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Pub. L. 93–406section 1001 of this titleThis chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(1), was in the original “this Act”, meaning , 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 and Tables.

Pub. L. 99–514, § 2100 Stat. 2095The Internal Revenue Code of 1954, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(1), was redesignated the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by , , , and is classified to Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

section 1461(e) of this titleFor the effective date of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (a), see .