---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 524a"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "524a"
heading: "Elimination of racketeering activities threat; State legislation governing collective bargaining representative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/524a"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §524a. Elimination of racketeering activities threat; State legislation governing collective bargaining representative


Notwithstanding this or any other Act regulating labor-management relations, each [State](/usc/29/402.md?p=b) shall have the authority to enact and enforce, as part of a comprehensive statutory system to eliminate the threat of pervasive racketeering activity in an industry that is, or over time has been, affected by such activity, a provision of law that applies equally to [employers](/usc/29/402.md?p=e), [employees](/usc/29/402.md?p=f), and collective bargaining representatives, which provision of law governs service in any position in a local [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) which acts or seeks to act in that [State](/usc/29/402.md?p=b) as a collective bargaining representative pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act [[29 U.S.C. 151](/usc/29/151.md) et seq.], in the industry that is subject to that program.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 2201, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2192.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, probably means title II of Pub. L. 98–473, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1976, known as the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1984 Amendment note set out under section 1 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and Tables.

The National Labor Relations Act, referred to in text, is act July 5, 1935, ch. 372, 49 Stat. 449, which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 151 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 167 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, which comprises this chapter.