E.O.14074
Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices To Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 32945
E.O.14073
Enhancing the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 27909
Establishes the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee to advise the President and two related interagency subcommittees on the National Quantum Initiative Program, which supports quantum information science research across government, industry, and academia. The committee will include the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy or a designee, plus up to 26 presidentially appointed members from industry, universities, and federal laboratories, led by two co-chairs. It must meet at least twice a year to respond to presidential and co-chair requests, gather input from researchers, businesses, and other stakeholders, and review the national quantum strategy. Agency heads must share relevant information with the committee on request, and members may form subcommittees or seek security clearances as needed. The National Quantum Coordination Office will provide administrative support, and members serve unpaid but may receive travel expenses. The order revokes Executive Order 13885, which had previously created a similar advisory committee, and directs that federal advisory committee law requirements be handled by the Secretary of Energy.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14072
Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 24851
Directs federal agencies to conserve and restore the nation's forests, including mature and old-growth forests on federal lands. Within one year, the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture must inventory old-growth and mature forests on federal lands, make it public, then coordinate conservation and wildfire-risk-reduction policies, analyze threats, and set reforestation targets for 2030, seed and nursery capacity plans, and economic development recommendations for forest-product and outdoor-recreation jobs. On international deforestation, it directs the Secretary of State and other agencies to report within a year on options for limiting agricultural imports linked to illegal or recent deforestation, incorporating deforestation risk into foreign assistance and trade policy, and engaging other countries. It also directs the Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and National Climate Advisor to report on expanding nature-based solutions across government, requires Office of Management and Budget guidance on valuing ecosystem services in regulatory decisions, and calls for a national ecosystem-condition assessment under the Global Change Research Act.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14071
Prohibiting New Investment in and Certain Services to the Russian Federation in Response to Continued Russian Federation Aggression
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 20999
Acting under the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 and related orders, this order prohibits new investment in the Russian Federation by United States persons anywhere, and bars U.S. persons from exporting or supplying categories of services, to be specified by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Secretary of State, to anyone located in Russia. It also prohibits U.S. persons from approving, financing, facilitating, or guaranteeing transactions by foreign persons that would be barred if done by a U.S. person, and bans efforts to evade these restrictions or conspiracies to violate them. Transactions for official U.S. government or United Nations business are exempted. The Treasury Secretary is authorized to issue regulations and licenses to implement the order, and all federal agencies are directed to take appropriate measures to carry it out.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14070
Continuing To Strengthen Americans' Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 20689
Builds on Executive Order 14009 by directing federal agencies with responsibilities related to Americans' health coverage, excluding certain agencies as defined under federal recordkeeping law, to review their policies and practices to expand access to affordable health coverage, improve coverage quality, strengthen benefits, and help more people enroll in Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, Medicare, and other programs. Agency heads are told to examine ways to make enrollment easier, improve benefits and provider access, protect consumers from low-quality coverage, expand eligibility and lower costs, improve links between the healthcare system and other services, and reduce the burden of medical debt on households. The order recounts prior administration actions on Medicaid expansion, enrollment periods, subsidies, and outreach, and notes that millions remain uninsured or underinsured, including in states that have not expanded Medicaid. It states that it does not alter existing agency legal authority or budget functions, must be implemented consistent with law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14069
Advancing Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Federal Contracting by Promoting Pay Equity and Transparency
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 15315
Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, working with the Secretary of Labor and other agency heads, to consider proposed rules promoting pay equity and transparency for job applicants and employees of federal contractors and subcontractors. The council is specifically asked to weigh whether such rules should limit or prohibit contractors from seeking or considering applicants' and employees' current or past compensation when making employment decisions, and to consider including accountability measures. The order notes that the Office of Personnel Management separately expects to propose a related rule on salary history use in federal employee hiring and pay-setting, consistent with Executive Order 14035. Implementation is subject to existing law and available appropriations, and the order states it does not create any enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14068
Prohibiting Certain Imports, Exports, and New Investment With Respect to Continued Russian Federation Aggression
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 14381
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and building on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024, this order prohibits importing Russian-origin fish, seafood, alcoholic beverages, non-industrial diamonds, and other goods the Treasury Secretary may later designate. It also bans exporting luxury goods and other designated items from the United States to persons in Russia, bars new investment by U.S. persons in sectors of the Russian economy that Treasury identifies, prohibits exporting U.S. dollar banknotes to the Russian government or persons in Russia, and bars U.S. persons from approving, financing, or facilitating foreign transactions that would be prohibited if done by a U.S. person. It also bans evasion and conspiracy to violate these rules. Exceptions exist for official U.S. government or United Nations business and for actions authorized under future licenses or regulations. The Secretaries of the Treasury, State, and Commerce are directed to implement and enforce these measures, including issuing further rules.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14067
Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 14143
Sets out a government-wide policy on digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies, aimed at protecting consumers and financial stability, limiting illicit finance and national security risks, maintaining U.S. leadership in the global financial system, promoting access to financial services, and supporting responsible technological development. Directs the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy to coordinate implementation across numerous agencies. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General, Federal Reserve Chairman, and other officials to produce, within 90 to 210 days, a series of reports and frameworks covering a potential U.S. central bank digital currency, consumer and investor protections, financial stability risks, illicit finance and law enforcement concerns, environmental and energy impacts, and international cooperation on standards. Encourages independent regulators such as the SEC, CFTC, FTC, and CFPB to consider related consumer protection and competition issues. Defines key terms like blockchain, digital assets, and stablecoins, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14066
Prohibiting Certain Imports and New Investments With Respect to Continued Russian Federation Efforts To Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 13625
Expands the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 and relied on in Executive Order 14039, citing Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy. Prohibits importing into the United States crude oil, petroleum and petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, coal, and coal products originating from Russia. Bars new investment in Russia's energy sector by U.S. persons anywhere, and prohibits U.S. persons from approving, financing, facilitating, or guaranteeing transactions by foreign persons that would be barred if done by a U.S. person or within the United States. Prohibits attempts, evasion, and conspiracies to violate these bans, while exempting official U.S. government and United Nations business. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to issue regulations and take other actions needed to implement the order, and directs all federal agencies to take appropriate measures to carry it out.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14065
Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Continued Russian Efforts To Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 10293
Expands the national emergency first declared in Executive Order 13660 regarding Ukraine, citing Russia's recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as breaching the Minsk agreements. Prohibits new investment by U.S. persons in these regions, plus imports from and exports to them, and bars financing or facilitating such deals by foreign persons. Blocks the U.S. property of anyone the Treasury Secretary, in consultation with the State Department, determines to operate in or lead entities in these regions, or to support such blocked persons; also bars donations to them and any transactions that evade these rules. Suspends U.S. entry of noncitizens meeting these criteria, with exceptions the State or Homeland Security Secretary may grant, including on law-enforcement grounds recommended by the Attorney General. Directs the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations and authorizes agencies to take needed actions, while stating blocked individuals need not receive advance notice.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14064
Protecting Certain Property of Da Afghanistan Bank for the Benefit of the People of Afghanistan
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 8391
Declares a national emergency over the humanitarian crisis and potential economic collapse in Afghanistan, and blocks all property and interests of Da Afghanistan Bank, the country's central bank, held in the United States by U.S. financial institutions as of the order's date. Directs those institutions to promptly transfer the blocked property into a consolidated account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Prohibits transactions that evade or attempt to violate these restrictions, as well as conspiracies to do so. States that no prior notice to affected parties is required before blocking the property, given the risk that funds could be moved instantly. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, to issue regulations and take other actions needed to carry out the order, and to report to Congress on the emergency. Exempts official U.S. government business from the transaction ban and states the order does not create enforceable legal rights for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14063
Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 7363
Directs federal agencies to require contractors and subcontractors on large-scale federal construction projects—those with an estimated cost of $35 million or more—to negotiate or become party to a project labor agreement with one or more labor organizations. Such agreements must bind all contractors and subcontractors, allow competition regardless of existing union status, ban strikes and lockouts, and set out dispute-resolution procedures. Agencies may grant exceptions in specific cases, such as short or highly specialized projects, or where a project labor agreement would reduce competition, and must publicly report on their use of agreements and exceptions granted. The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council must propose implementing regulations within 120 days, and the Office of Management and Budget must issue related guidance. The Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Labor, and OMB Director must develop contracting-officer training within 90 days. It revokes Executive Order 13502 once new final regulations take effect, and applies to future contract solicitations, with agencies encouraged to comply in the interim.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14062
2022 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 4763
Amends Parts II and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which implements the Uniform Code of Military Justice, based on changes set out in an attached annex. The amendments take effect on the date of the order, but they cannot make punishable any act that occurred before the order and was not already punishable at the time. They also do not invalidate nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraints, investigations, charge referrals, trials that had already reached arraignment, or other military justice actions begun before the order; such pending matters may continue as though the amendments had not been made. The order updates the standing manual originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, applying to military personnel subject to court-martial proceedings.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14061
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 73601
Sets updated rates of basic pay and salaries for various federal pay systems, including the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, pay for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services pay, and administrative law judges, as detailed in schedules attached to the order. Directs locality-based comparability payments under specific statutory authority, and instructs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement these payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Uniformed services pay rates take effect January 1, 2022, while other schedules take effect at the start of the first pay period on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13970 of December 31, 2020, as of these effective dates.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14060
Establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 71793
Establishes the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime (USCTOC), which reports to the President through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and replaces the Threat Mitigation Working Group created under Executive Order 13773, whose section 3 is revoked. The council includes the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Director of National Intelligence, and must meet within 60 days. It also creates a USCTOC Strategic Division housed at the Department of Justice, staffed by personnel from those same agencies, to develop coordinated strategic plans for combating transnational organized crime; the Division must report on a threat-prioritization process within 120 days. The Director of National Intelligence must submit a report within 120 days, and annually afterward, assessing intelligence-collection efforts on transnational organized crime and recommending resource priorities. The order sets policy goals such as improved intelligence sharing, disrupting illicit finance, and developing new technologies to counter these criminal networks.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14059
Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 71549
Declares a national emergency over international trafficking of illicit drugs, including fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, and authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the Attorney General, to impose sanctions on foreign persons involved in producing, trafficking, or financing illicit drugs or supporting those who do. Sanctions may include blocking U.S. property and assets, barring financial transactions and loans, restricting investment, and other financial and trade prohibitions, which can also extend to a sanctioned entity's executive officers. Suspends U.S. entry for noncitizens meeting these criteria, with exceptions determinable by the Secretary of State or Homeland Security. Prohibits transactions or donations that would benefit blocked persons, and bars evasion or conspiracy to violate the order. Directs Treasury to issue implementing regulations and directs relevant agencies to take necessary actions. Authorizes reporting to Congress on the emergency and clarifies the order does not create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14058
Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery To Rebuild Trust in Government
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 71357
Directs numerous federal agencies to redesign and streamline services to improve public interactions with government and reduce administrative burdens, or 'time taxes.' Specific directives include: the State Department must build an online passport renewal system requiring no mailed documents; the IRS must offer new online tax payment tools and call-back scheduling; the Interior Department must redesign the Fish and Wildlife Service website and modernize permitting; Agriculture must test online purchasing for WIC benefits and simplify farm loan applications; Labor must expand telehealth for workers' compensation; Health and Human Services must improve Medicare tools and maternal health data; Education must build a student loan repayment portal; Veterans Affairs must integrate digital services; Homeland Security must test airport screening technology and streamline disaster aid applications; Social Security must reduce physical documentation requirements; and the General Services Administration must redesign USA.gov as a centralized 'Federal Front Door.' It also directs the Office of Management and Budget to designate 'High Impact Service Providers,' establish oversight teams, and require periodic reporting on progress. The order contains further provisions detailing reporting deadlines, agency planning integration, and definitions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14057
Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 70935
Sets sustainability goals for federal agencies aimed at reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions government-wide by 2050. It directs agencies to achieve 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2030, 100 percent zero-emission light-duty vehicle acquisitions by 2027 and all vehicle acquisitions by 2035, net-zero emissions buildings by 2045 with a 50 percent cut by 2032, a 65 percent reduction in operational emissions from 2008 levels by 2030, and increased waste diversion and water efficiency targets. It requires agencies to designate Chief Sustainability Officers, submit annual Sustainability Plans and Climate Adaptation Plans, and pursue "Buy Clean" procurement of lower-emission construction materials. It reestablishes a Federal Chief Sustainability Officer within the Council on Environmental Quality, creates several interagency working groups, directs coordination with the Office of Management and Budget and Department of Energy, and calls for environmental justice and workforce training measures. It allows agencies to exempt certain activities for national security or operational reasons, and revokes Executive Order 13834. The order applies to executive agencies within the United States, with limited application abroad at agency discretion, and contains additional implementation and coordination provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14056
The National Space Council
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 68871
Establishes the membership, duties, and operations of the National Space Council, chaired by the Vice President and including numerous cabinet secretaries, agency heads, and White House officials such as the Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Homeland Security, the NASA Administrator, and the Director of National Intelligence. The Council is directed to advise the President on national space policy and strategy, coordinate civil, commercial, and national security space activities across agencies, resolve interagency disputes, and meet at least annually. It sets out the Chair's responsibilities, including setting meeting agendas and recommending budget priorities, and requires agencies conducting space-related activities to conform to national space policy where legally permitted. It directs the Council to convene a Users' Advisory Group of non-federal industry representatives to provide recommendations, and assigns administrative and legal support roles to the Office of Administration and White House counsel offices. The order revokes Executive Orders 13803 and 13906, which previously governed the Council.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14055
Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 66397