29 USC § 1138 - Appropriations

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title: "29 USC § 1138 - Appropriations"
title_number: 29
title_name: "LABOR"
section_number: "1138"
section_name: "Appropriations"
chapter_number: 18
chapter_name: "EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY PROGRAM"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEE BENEFIT RIGHTS"
part_number: "5"
part_name: "administration and enforcement"
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currency: "119-73"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 508, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 895.)"
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# § 1138. Appropriations

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his functions and duties under this chapter.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 508, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 895.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, 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.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Regulations

Secretary authorized, effective , to promulgate regulations wherever provisions of this subchapter call for the promulgation of regulations, see .