E.O.13994
Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7189
E.O.13993
Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
·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
E.O.13980
Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6817
Sets federal policy that agencies should clearly state which regulatory violations carry criminal penalties and specify the required mental state (mens rea) for each offense, favoring administrative or civil enforcement over criminal prosecution for strict liability violations. Directs agencies to include, in proposed and final rules published after the order, a statement on whether violations may trigger criminal penalties, and to specify a mens rea requirement or identify an offense as strict liability, citing authorizing statutes. Requires agencies proposing strict liability criminal offenses not specified in statute to justify the standard to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs before publication. Within 45 days, agencies must publish guidance, developed with the Department of Justice, describing how they will handle potential regulatory criminal offenses administratively rather than referring them for prosecution, considering factors like harm, gain to the offender, expertise, and knowledge of the rule. Excludes matters involving national security, ongoing criminal investigations, counterfeit or misbranded goods, and certain other categories from its requirements.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13979
Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6813
Directs federal agency heads, to the extent permitted by law, to require that rules issued under the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment process (section 553) be signed only by presidentially appointed or non-career senior officials, and that only such officials may initiate rulemakings or approve an agency's regulatory agenda. Allows exceptions where an agency head determines compliance would harm public safety or security, subject to notifying and publishing reasons through the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Within 180 days, agencies must review and revise delegations of rulemaking authority and amend related regulations to comply. Within 90 days, agencies must review significant rules issued over the past 12 years to determine whether they were issued by senior appointees, and within 120 days report findings to the President through the Administrator. Defines key terms including "agency," "senior appointee," "significant rule," and "rule," explicitly including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and excluding the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Directs the Administrator to issue implementation guidance and monitor compliance.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13978
Building the National Garden of American Heroes
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6809
Amends Executive Order 13934 to revise plans for the National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes, to identify a site and proceed with construction as authority allows, and to provide funding for its establishment and maintenance. Replaces the list of individuals to be honored with statues with an expanded roster of several hundred named historical figures. Revises the definition of "historically significant American." Directs the chairpersons of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities to aim to spend one-twelfth of their discretionary funds commissioning statues for the garden. Requires the Task Force to publish an annual public report on progress until the garden is complete and all listed statues are in place, including steps taken and statues commissioned or placed.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13977
Protecting Law Enforcement Officers, Judges, Prosecutors, and Their Families
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6803
Directs federal agencies to remove obstacles preventing current or retired federal law enforcement officers from carrying concealed firearms under the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, and requires agency heads to report to the President within 30 days on implementation and remaining barriers. Directs the Attorney General to propose, within 30 days, a regulation allowing federal prosecutors facing risk of harm to receive special deputation as Deputy U.S. Marshals, including firearm-carrying authority and required training. Directs the Attorney General to prioritize protection of federal judges and prosecutors, prioritize prosecution of threats or violence against these officials and their targeted family members, and assess whether to revise related federal regulations. Directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to review ways to limit public exposure of personal information about federal judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers, and directs agencies to allow use of post office box addresses where appropriate. Directs the Attorney General to draft proposed legislation within 30 days expanding firearm rights, information protections, penalties for threats against these officials and their families, and related funding and authority for relevant agencies.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13976
Establishing the Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6549
Establishes an interagency Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee, known as the Wildland Fire Subcabinet, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior and including the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, along with the Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Economic Council leaders. The Subcabinet, meeting quarterly, is directed to coordinate federal wildland fire policy, reduce duplication among existing fire-related councils and working groups, and improve cooperation with state, local, and tribal governments. Within 90 days it must recommend consolidating overlapping interagency working groups. Within 180 days it must publish a strategic plan covering fire suppression, hazardous fuels management, technology adoption, workforce policy, infrastructure coordination with utilities, and budget strategy. It must report annually to top White House policy offices on progress. The Department of Agriculture provides administrative support, and the order directs coordination with the existing Wildland Fire Leadership Council.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13975
Encouraging Buy American Policies for the United States Postal Service
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6547