---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18013"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18013"
heading: "Annual report on self-insured plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18013"
units:
  - "Chapter 157 — Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans"
  - "Subchapter II — Other Provisions"
---

# §18013. Annual report on self-insured plans


Not later than 1 year after March 23, 2010, and annually thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/42/18024.md?p=c) of Labor shall prepare an aggregate annual report, using data collected from the Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (Department of Labor Form 5500), that shall include general information on self-insured [group health plans](/usc/42/18021.md?p=b-3) (including plan type, number of participants, benefits offered, funding arrangements, and benefit arrangements) as well as data from the financial filings of self-insured employers (including information on assets, liabilities, contributions, investments, and expenses). The [Secretary](/usc/42/18024.md?p=c) shall submit such reports to the appropriate committees of Congress.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1253, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10103(f)(2), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 895.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1253 of Pub. L. 111–148 was renumbered section 1255 and is set out as a note under section 300gg of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective for plan years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2014, see section 1255 of Pub. L. 111–148, set out as a note under section 300gg of this title.