E.O.14000

Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7215

Directs federal agencies to support the safe reopening and continued operation of schools, child care providers, Head Start programs, and colleges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instructs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to issue evidence-based guidance on reopening schools and colleges for in-person learning, create a Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse, provide technical assistance, and coordinate data collection on the pandemic's impact on students, disaggregated by demographics. Directs the Department of Education's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to report on COVID-19's disparate impact on students, including at minority-serving institutions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to help collect data, ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 supplies to schools and child care providers, support contact tracing, and provide guidance to child care and Head Start programs. Requires both Secretaries to jointly report strategies addressing educational disparities to White House officials. Encourages the Federal Communications Commission to expand broadband access for remote learners.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13999

Protecting Worker Health and Safety

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7211

Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to issue revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic within two weeks, and to decide whether emergency temporary standards, including on mask-wearing, are needed, issuing them by March 15, 2021 if so. Orders a review of OSHA's COVID-19 enforcement efforts, a national enforcement program targeting violations posing the greatest risk or involving retaliation, and a multilingual outreach campaign with labor unions and community groups to inform workers of their rights. Directs coordination with states running their own occupational safety plans and, in states without such plans, consultation to protect public sector workers. Instructs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Energy to explore protections for workers not covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and directs consideration of emergency standards for coal and metal or non-metal mine workers.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13998

Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7205

Directs the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Homeland Security, along with other relevant agency heads, to require mask-wearing consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines in airports, on commercial aircraft, trains, ferries, intercity buses, and other public transportation, while allowing documented exceptions and preserving stricter state or local rules. It directs those agencies to recommend further domestic public health measures and to help states, localities, tribes, and territories encourage mask use and distancing. For international travel, it establishes a policy of requiring negative COVID-19 tests and compliance with CDC guidance before entry, and directs the Secretaries of State, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Homeland Security to assess testing requirements for air travelers, negotiate with Canada and Mexico on land border health measures, develop plans for sea port measures, and study linking vaccination status to international vaccination certificates. Agencies must report progress to the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator within set deadlines.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13997

Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7201

Directs several federal agencies to expand efforts against COVID-19. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the National Institutes of Health, must develop plans to support clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments, study the disease's long-term effects, and ensure underrepresented populations are included in research. The Secretaries of Defense, HHS, and Veterans Affairs, coordinated by the COVID-19 Response Coordinator, are directed to provide surge assistance to nursing homes and other care facilities, review Federal facilities' capacity, and issue recommendations for expanding the healthcare workforce. The same agencies must set targets for producing and distributing COVID-19 treatments and prioritize scalable therapeutics. HHS is further directed to identify barriers to treatment access, support state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities in overcoming them, evaluate the COVID-19 Uninsured Program, and review Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance coverage to promote access to COVID-19 treatment and care. The order states it does not alter existing agency legal authority and creates no enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13996

Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7197

Establishes a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board, chaired by the Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response, to coordinate federal testing, screening, and surveillance efforts, recommend how to prioritize assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, address testing gaps in high-risk settings and populations, and propose reforms to improve pandemic response. Directs the Treasury, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Labor secretaries to work toward providing free COVID-19 testing for people lacking comprehensive insurance and clarifying insurers' coverage obligations. Directs HHS, Education, and Homeland Security officials to expand testing access, including in schools. Directs HHS and Labor to consult with state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders on workforce challenges, and directs HHS to provide technical support and submit a plan on deploying public health personnel and building a sustainable workforce. Directs several agencies to jointly develop a plan for a U.S. Public Health Job Corps, modeled on FEMA Corps, to handle contact tracing, vaccination outreach, and testing training. States the order does not create enforceable legal rights and is subject to available funding.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13995

Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7193

Establishes a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force within the Department of Health and Human Services to address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on communities of color and other underserved populations. The task force, chaired by a designee of the HHS Secretary and including federal and outside members appointed by the President, is directed to recommend how agencies and state, local, tribal, and territorial officials should allocate pandemic resources and relief funds equitably, improve culturally aligned outreach, and fix data shortfalls in tracking COVID-19's effects by race and other factors. It must submit a final report on health inequities and terminates within 30 days of completing its work or after two years, whichever comes first. The order also directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Labor, HHS, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and the EPA Administrator, among others, to assess and adjust pandemic response plans for equity, strengthen anti-discrimination enforcement in COVID-19 care, and partner with local governments on assistance such as food, housing, and income support.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13994

Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats

January 21, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7189

Directs federal agencies to gather, share, and publish data related to COVID-19 and future high-consequence public health threats, coordinating with the Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President, while protecting confidentiality, privacy, law enforcement, and national security. Requires numerous agency heads, including the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, along with the Directors of National Intelligence, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Science Foundation, to designate senior officials to work on pandemic-related data issues. Directs the Office of Management and Budget to review federal open-data practices and issue guidance on de-identifying and publishing COVID-19 data. Instructs the Office of Personnel Management to review hiring practices for data-related roles. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review public health data systems and report findings. Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a plan for advancing public health data innovation. States that it does not authorize disclosure of privileged, law-enforcement, national-security, or legally protected information.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13993

Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7051

Revokes Executive Order 13768 of January 25, 2017, which had directed enhanced immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States. Directs the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and other relevant agency heads to review any agency actions taken under the revoked order and to issue revised guidance as appropriate to align enforcement of civil immigration laws with the administration's stated priorities of protecting national and border security, addressing humanitarian challenges at the southern border, ensuring public health and safety, and upholding due process. The order states it does not alter existing legal authorities of agencies, does not affect the budgetary or legislative functions of the Office of Management and Budget, and creates no enforceable legal rights for any party.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13992

Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7049

Revokes six prior executive orders concerning federal regulation: Executive Order 13771 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs), Executive Order 13777 (Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda), Executive Order 13875 (Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees), Executive Order 13891 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents), Executive Order 13892 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication), and Executive Order 13893 (Increasing Government Accountability for Administrative Actions by Reinvigorating Administrative PAYGO). Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and agency heads to promptly rescind any rules, guidelines, or policies implementing those orders, consistent with applicable law, or to provide exemptions where rescission cannot happen immediately. Also abolishes any personnel positions, committees, or task forces created under the revoked orders, including regulatory reform officer positions and task forces set up under Executive Order 13777. States it does not alter existing agency legal authority or the Director's budgetary functions, and creates no enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13991

Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7045

Directs heads of executive departments and agencies to require mask-wearing, physical distancing, and other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public health measures for on-duty or on-site federal employees, on-site federal contractors, and all persons in federal buildings and on federal lands, with limited exceptions requiring documented alternative safeguards. Agencies must report progress within 7 days to a newly created COVID-19 Response Coordinator. Establishes the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, co-chaired by the Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration, and COVID-19 Response Coordinator, to issue guidance on testing, distancing, protective equipment, telework, and vaccine distribution for the federal workforce. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC, to engage state, local, and community leaders on mask-wearing and to develop a federal workforce testing plan. Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to assess research funding for mask and distancing best practices. Encourages, but does not require, similar measures in the legislative and judicial branches and at independent agencies.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13990

Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7037

Directs federal agencies to review regulations, orders, and guidance issued between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021 that conflict with policies on public health, the environment, and climate change, and to consider suspending, revising, or rescinding them, with specific deadlines for rules on methane emissions, fuel economy, appliance efficiency, and air pollution. Orders the Secretary of the Interior to review boundary changes made to several national monuments and to place a moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while reinstating prior withdrawals of Arctic and Bering Sea waters from drilling. Revokes the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Establishes an Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases to publish interim and final estimates of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide costs on set timelines. Revokes several prior executive orders and presidential memoranda related to infrastructure permitting, energy policy, and water supply, and directs rescission or revision of related guidance documents.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13989

Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7029

Requires every incoming executive branch appointee, starting January 20, 2021, to sign an ethics pledge as a condition of employment. The pledge bars accepting gifts from registered lobbyists, restricts appointees for two years from working on matters involving their former employers or clients, imposes extra limits on former lobbyists and registrants under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, extends post-employment communication restrictions for senior officials, bans lobbying by former appointees for a set period after leaving government, prohibits golden-parachute payments tied to taking a government job, and requires hiring decisions based on qualifications. The order defines key terms, allows the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to grant written waivers in the public interest, directs agency heads and the Office of Government Ethics to establish implementing rules, reporting, and enforcement procedures, and authorizes the Attorney General to pursue investigations, injunctions, or other civil remedies against violators.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13988

Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7023

Sets a policy of preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, citing the Supreme Court's Bostock v. Clayton County decision interpreting Title VII's sex-discrimination ban to cover such discrimination, and noting this reasoning extends to other sex-discrimination laws including Title IX, the Fair Housing Act, and a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Directs the head of each federal agency, in consultation with the Attorney General as appropriate, to review existing orders, regulations, guidance, policies, and programs administered under sex-discrimination statutes to identify any that are inconsistent with this policy, and to consider revising, suspending, rescinding, or issuing new agency actions as needed. Agencies must also address overlapping forms of discrimination, such as those based on race or disability. Within 100 days, each agency head must develop a plan to carry out identified actions. The order applies to federal agencies generally, excluding independent regulatory agencies, and does not create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13987

Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7019

Establishes within the Executive Office of the President the positions of Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President, and a Deputy Coordinator, to lead and coordinate the federal government's pandemic response, including reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, producing and distributing supplies such as protective equipment, vaccines and tests, expanding testing, supporting vaccine delivery, and helping schools and child care providers reopen safely. Directs the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to convene National Security Council principals on global health security and, within 180 days, complete a review of biological risks and biopreparedness policy, covering supply chains, healthcare capacity, border readiness, medical countermeasures, and coordination with state, local, tribal and territorial authorities. Creates an NSC Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense headed by a Senior Director, and reconvenes the Global Health Security Agenda Interagency Review Council. Requires agency heads to report obstacles to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator, who elevates unresolved issues to the President.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13986

Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7015

Directs the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that the population count used for congressional apportionment following the decennial census includes all persons whose usual residence is in a state, regardless of immigration status. Requires the Secretary's reports to the President under census law, and the tabulations sent to state officials responsible for legislative districting, to reflect the total resident population without excluding people based on immigration status. Directs the Secretary to take steps to ensure the accuracy of the population data provided to the President and the states. Revokes Executive Order 13880, which concerned collecting citizenship status information for the census, and revokes a July 2020 presidential memorandum that had sought to exclude people without lawful immigration status from the apportionment count. States that it does not create any legally enforceable rights and is to be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13985

Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government

January 20, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7009

Establishes a government-wide policy of advancing equity for people of color and other underserved groups, including racial, ethnic, religious, LGBTQ+, disability, and rural populations. Directs the White House Domestic Policy Council to coordinate equity efforts across agencies. Requires the Office of Management and Budget to study methods for assessing equity in agency policies and report to the President within six months. Directs each agency to review selected programs for barriers facing underserved communities and report findings within 200 days, then produce, within one year, plans addressing barriers to program access and to procurement and contracting opportunities. Instructs the Office of Management and Budget to identify equity opportunities in the federal budget and study resource-allocation strategies. Directs agencies to consult with underserved and civil rights organizations. Establishes an Interagency Working Group on Equitable Data, co-chaired by the Chief Statistician of the United States and the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, to identify gaps in federal demographic data. Revokes Executive Order 13950 (Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping) and Executive Order 13958 (Establishing the President's Advisory 1776 Commission), and directs agencies to review related actions under the former within 60 days.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13984

Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber- Enabled Activities

January 19, 2021·Donald Trump·86 FR 6837

Acting under the national emergency over malicious cyber-enabled activities declared in Executive Order 13694, this order directs the Secretary of Commerce to propose regulations within 180 days requiring U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers to verify the identity of foreign customers opening accounts and to keep records such as names, payment methods, and contact and IP address information. It also authorizes the Secretary to impose special measures, including restrictions on accounts, targeting foreign jurisdictions or persons found to have a pattern of using U.S. IaaS products for malicious cyber activity, with input from other agencies. The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security must consult industry within 120 days and submit a report within 240 days recommending ways to improve information sharing among providers and with government agencies. The Secretary of Commerce must also factor implementation costs into budget requests. The order amends Executive Order 13694's reporting provision and defines key terms used throughout.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13983

Revocation of Executive Order 13770

January 19, 2021·Donald Trump·86 FR 6835

Revokes Executive Order 13770 of January 28, 2017, titled "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees," effective at noon on January 20, 2021. Current and former executive branch employees who had been bound by the ethics commitments set out in that earlier order are no longer subject to them after that time. The order states it does not affect existing legal authority of federal agencies or their heads, nor the budgetary, administrative, or legislative functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and that it creates no enforceable rights or benefits for any party.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13982

Care of Veterans With Service in Uzbekistan

January 19, 2021·Donald Trump·86 FR 6833

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to consider designating veterans who served on active duty in Uzbekistan between October 1, 2001, and December 31, 2005, as having served in a theater of combat operations under federal law, which affects eligibility for certain veterans' benefits. Also directs the Secretary of Defense, within 365 days, to conduct a study on toxic exposure among service members deployed to the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan during that period, including identifying toxic substances and locations, assessing health consequences through an epidemiological study, and evaluating any causal link between the exposures and health effects. The Secretary of Defense must report findings to the President through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The order states it does not create enforceable legal rights and is to be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less

E.O.13981

Protecting the United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems

January 18, 2021·Donald Trump·86 FR 6821

Directs federal agencies to review their authority to stop procuring, funding, or renewing contracts for 'covered' unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)—drones manufactured or partly manufactured, or reliant on software, components, or data storage tied to adversary countries such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran—and to report findings to the Office of Management and Budget. Requires agencies to report within 60 days on foreign-linked UAS they currently own or operate, with the Director of National Intelligence submitting a broader risk assessment to the President within 180 days, including possible removal of such drones from federal service. Instructs the Federal Aviation Administration to propose regulations within 270 days restricting UAS use over critical infrastructure or sensitive sites, under existing 2016 aviation law. Directs agencies and the Office of Management and Budget to prioritize funding for replacing covered UAS in future budgets. Defines key terms including 'adversary country,' 'covered UAS,' and 'critical electronic component.'Read the full summaryShow less