42 U.S.C. § 1304
Section 1304 · Reservation of right to amend or repeal
This is § 1104 of the Social Security Act of 1935
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 52 court decisions — leading case National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)
Most recently applied in State v. United States (March 2018)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of this chapter is hereby reserved to the Congress.