E.O.13900
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2019
·Donald Trump·84 FR 69983
E.O.13899
Combating Anti-Semitism
·Donald Trump·84 FR 68779
Directs federal agencies enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs, to treat discrimination against Jews as potentially covered when it stems from race, color, or national origin. Instructs agencies to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's non-binding working definition of anti-Semitism and its accompanying list of contemporary examples as evidence of discriminatory intent when investigating Title VI complaints, while stating that this must not diminish rights protected under federal law or the First Amendment. Requires the head of each agency enforcing Title VI to report to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, within 120 days, identifying other nondiscrimination laws under their authority where the same definition could apply. Clarifies that the order does not change evidentiary standards for discrimination findings and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13898
Establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives
·Donald Trump·84 FR 66059
Establishes the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives, co-chaired by the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior, to address cases involving missing and murdered members of these communities, particularly women and girls. Membership includes officials from the FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Office on Violence Against Women, the Administration for Native Americans, and other designated federal representatives. Directs the task force to consult with tribal governments, develop model protocols for investigating new and unsolved cases, review cold cases through a multi-jurisdictional team, improve coordination and data-sharing among law enforcement agencies and criminal databases, issue best-practices guidance, and conduct public education campaigns. Requires the task force to submit a progress report to the President within one year and a final report within two years. The task force terminates two years after the order's signing unless the President directs otherwise, and the Department of Justice is to provide funding and administrative support.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13897
Improving Federal Contractor Operations by Revoking Executive Order 13495
·Donald Trump·84 FR 59709
Revokes Executive Order 13495, which had required successor federal contractors, in certain circumstances, to offer a right of first refusal of employment to workers employed under the predecessor contract. Directs the Secretary of Labor, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, and heads of executive departments and agencies to promptly move to rescind any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, programs, or policies implementing or enforcing the revoked order. Also directs the Secretary of Labor to immediately terminate any ongoing investigations or compliance actions based on the revoked order. States that it does not affect existing legal authority of agencies or the budgetary functions of the Office of Management and Budget, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available appropriations, and does not create any enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13896
Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice
·Donald Trump·84 FR 58595
Directs the Attorney General to establish a Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice and designate its chair, with the Attorney General determining its composition and procedures. The Commission is to study issues affecting law enforcement and criminal justice, including mental illness and homelessness, officer recruitment and safety, prosecutors declining to enforce certain laws, technology's effects on policing, and the effectiveness of federal grant programs, among other topics. It may hold listening sessions with law enforcement agencies, businesses, nonprofits, academics, and other stakeholders, and agencies must give it reasonable access to needed information and may detail personnel to assist it. The Commission must submit a report and recommendations to the Attorney General within one year, who must then report to the President within 60 days. The Commission terminates 90 days after submitting its report unless the President extends it. The order applies to federal agencies and, at the Attorney General's discretion, invited state, local, and tribal officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13895
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
·Donald Trump·84 FR 57309
Establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), made up of the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy as chair and up to 16 additional members appointed by the President from outside government with expertise in science, technology, education, and innovation. The council will advise the President on science, technology, education, and innovation policy, respond to presidential requests, gather input from research institutions, industry, and other stakeholders, and serve as the advisory committee required under the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 and the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. Federal agencies must share relevant information when requested by the council's chair, and the Department of Energy will provide funding and administrative support. Members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The council terminates after two years unless extended by the President. The order also revokes the prior 2010 executive order that had established an earlier version of PCAST.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13894
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria
·Donald Trump·84 FR 55851
Declares a national emergency over the situation in Syria, citing military action by Turkey into northeast Syria that the order says endangers civilians and undermines efforts against the Islamic State. Blocks the U.S. property of persons determined to be responsible for threats to Syria's stability, human rights abuses, or officials and agencies of the Turkish government, as well as those who support or are owned by such persons. Authorizes the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury to impose additional sanctions, including trade and financial restrictions, visa denial, and correspondent account limits, on persons obstructing a ceasefire, blocking displaced persons' return, forcing repatriation, or interfering with a political solution in Syria, and on foreign financial institutions dealing with sanctioned persons. Suspends entry into the United States of aliens meeting these criteria, with exceptions determined by the Secretary of State. Prohibits related donations, evasive transactions, and conspiracies to violate the order, and directs the Treasury and State Departments to implement and report on these measures to Congress.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13893
Increasing Government Accountability for Administrative Actions by Reinvigorating Administrative PAYGO
·Donald Trump·84 FR 55487
Establishes a policy requiring executive agencies to offset increases in mandatory federal spending caused by discretionary administrative actions, such as rules, demonstrations, program notices, or guidance not required by statute. Before undertaking such an action, an agency head must submit it to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget with an estimate of its budgetary effects, and if the action would increase mandatory spending, propose other actions to comparably reduce it; submissions without offsets are to be returned for reconsideration. If an agency believes an action is legally required and therefore exempt, its general counsel must give OMB a written legal opinion and consult with OMB. Within 90 days, the Director must issue implementation guidance and revoke a 2005 OMB memorandum on the same topic. The Director may waive these requirements or pursue additional deficit reduction through agency actions. The order does not create enforceable legal rights and applies within existing law and available appropriations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13892
Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication
·Donald Trump·84 FR 55239
Directs federal agencies to increase transparency and fairness in civil administrative enforcement and adjudication. Bars agencies from using guidance documents to create binding new legal obligations, requiring that violations be based on actual statutes or regulations, and requires that legal standards, jurisdictional claims, and litigation-related documents used against regulated parties be publicly published, generally in the Federal Register or a searchable agency database, before being applied. Requires agencies to give affected persons a chance to respond before taking actions with legal consequences, except in emergencies or settlement contexts. Within 120 days, agencies conducting inspections must publish procedural rules governing them. Information collections tied to investigations must comply with Paperwork Reduction Act requirements. Within 270 days, agencies must propose procedures encouraging voluntary self-reporting, information sharing, and pre-enforcement rulings, or report why such steps are impractical. Within 180 days, agencies must report on compliance with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. Exempts actions involving foreign affairs, national security, criminal prosecutions, intellectual property seizures, and internal employee discipline.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13891
Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents
·Donald Trump·84 FR 55235
Sets policy that federal agency guidance documents must be treated as non-binding on the public, distinct from formally issued regulations. Directs agencies, after the Office of Management and Budget issues implementing guidance, to create searchable online databases of all guidance documents, review and rescind those no longer needed, and refrain from citing rescinded guidance. Requires agencies to finalize regulations within 300 days establishing procedures for issuing guidance, including public petition processes for withdrawal, and, for "significant" guidance documents affecting the economy or major policy issues, at least 30 days of public comment, approval by the agency head, and review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Applies existing regulatory review requirements from prior executive orders to guidance documents. Exempts foreign affairs, national security, criminal investigations, employee discipline matters, and certain other areas from these requirements, and does not apply to the Treasury Department's existing review relationship with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13890
Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors
·Donald Trump·84 FR 53573
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pursue a series of regulatory and administrative changes to the Medicare program, framed as protecting the current system rather than replacing it with a single government-run plan. Within one year, the Secretary must propose rules to expand Medicare Advantage plan choices and benefit designs, adjust network adequacy requirements, reduce billing and licensure burdens so providers can spend more time with patients, streamline approval and coverage of new medical products, improve cost and quality data for patients, and remove barriers to private contracts between beneficiaries and providers. Within 180 days, the Secretary must report on aligning fee-for-service Medicare payments more closely with market-based pricing and study approaches like competitive bidding, and must also revise rules so seniors who decline Medicare Part A can keep Social Security retirement benefits. The Secretary must also propose annual anti-fraud measures starting January 1, 2021. The order applies to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Social Security Administration.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13889
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
·Donald Trump·84 FR 52743
Extends the operation of a number of federal advisory committees through September 30, 2021, including bodies such as the President's Export Council, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, several national monument advisory committees, and various presidential commissions on education, business, and civil rights topics, among others listed in the order. Assigns responsibility for each committee's functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to the head of the department or agency named alongside it, following procedures set by the Administrator of General Services. Supersedes the corresponding continuation provisions of Executive Order 13811 of September 29, 2017. States that it takes effect on September 30, 2019.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13888
Enhancing State and Local Involvement in Refugee Resettlement
·Donald Trump·84 FR 52355
Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop, within 90 days, a process requiring both a state and a local government to give written consent before refugees are resettled there under the State Department's Reception and Placement Program, with consents to be publicly released. If a state or locality withholds consent, refugees generally should not be placed there unless the Secretary of State, after consulting the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, determines that withholding placement would conflict with statutory refugee policy goals, in which case the President must be notified before proceeding. This consent requirement does not apply to spouses or children joining a refugee already resettled. The order cites Executive Order 13780's directive to explore greater state and local involvement in refugee placement decisions, and states it does not create enforceable legal rights and applies subject to existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13887
Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health
·Donald Trump·84 FR 49935
Establishes a National Influenza Vaccine Task Force, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services, to identify ways to modernize domestic influenza vaccine production, reduce reliance on egg-based manufacturing, expand faster and more scalable technologies, advance broadly protective vaccines, and boost vaccination rates. The task force includes officials from agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Veterans Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and others, and must submit a five-year national plan to the President within 120 days, followed by annual updates for five years. It also directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Veterans Affairs to take specific implementation steps, including estimating costs of expanding manufacturing capacity, conducting vaccine-effectiveness studies, researching new production technologies, and evaluating alternative vaccine procurement approaches. The task force will terminate upon presidential direction.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13886
Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism
·Donald Trump·84 FR 48041
Terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12947 and revokes that order, as amended by Executive Order 13099, which had targeted people who threatened the Middle East peace process. Amends Executive Order 13224 to consolidate and broaden terrorism-related sanctions, blocking the property of people listed in an annex and expanding criteria the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury can use, in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security, to designate foreign persons for sanctions—including those who commit or attempt terrorism, lead or control sanctioned entities, provide material support, or participate in terrorism-related training. It also lets the Treasury Secretary restrict foreign financial institutions' U.S. correspondent or payable-through accounts if they knowingly facilitate transactions for blocked persons. People whose property was already blocked under the old order remain blocked. The order took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 10, 2019.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13885
Establishing the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
·Donald Trump·84 FR 46873
Establishes the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, made up of the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (or a designee) and up to 22 members appointed by the Secretary of Energy from industry, universities, federal laboratories, and other government agencies. The Committee advises the Secretary and the Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science on the National Quantum Initiative Program, meets at least twice a year, and gathers input from researchers, businesses, universities, national laboratories, state and local governments, and nonprofits. Agency heads must share relevant information with the Committee on request, the Department of Energy provides funding and support, and members may form subcommittees or working groups and can be granted security clearances. Members serve unpaid but may receive travel expenses. The order specifies how the Federal Advisory Committee Act applies and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13884
Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela
·Donald Trump·84 FR 38843
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and other authorities, and building on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, the order blocks all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela located in the United States or controlled by U.S. persons. It also blocks property of anyone determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to have materially supported blocked persons or to be owned or controlled by them. It suspends entry into the United States of such designated persons, with exceptions the Secretary of State may grant. It prohibits contributions of funds, goods, or services to or from blocked persons, and bans transactions that evade these prohibitions, while exempting official U.S. government business and humanitarian goods like food and medicine. The Treasury Secretary is authorized to issue implementing rules, and the order defines terms including "Government of Venezuela," which covers state entities like the Central Bank of Venezuela and PdVSA. It took effect August 5, 2019.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13883
Administration of Proliferation Sanctions and Amendment of Executive Order 12851
·Donald Trump·84 FR 38113
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to implement proliferation-related sanctions against a country selected under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, including opposing loans or assistance to that country from international financial institutions and prohibiting U.S. banks from making loans or extending credit to its government, except for food or agricultural purchases. Prohibits transactions or conspiracies that evade or violate this loan ban. Amends Executive Order 12851 to delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to oppose multilateral development bank assistance and prohibit bank loans once the Secretary of State makes the relevant determination. Defines terms such as "entity," "government," and "United States bank," and authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue rules and regulations and redelegate functions within the department. States it does not affect existing agency authorities or create enforceable rights, and applies subject to available appropriations and existing law. Relates to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13882
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Mali
·Donald Trump·84 FR 37055
Declares a national emergency over the situation in Mali, citing ceasefire violations, expanding terrorist activity, drug and human trafficking, human rights abuses, and attacks on civilians and peacekeepers. Blocks all U.S. property and interests of persons the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines are responsible for threatening Mali's peace or democratic institutions, violating the 2015 peace agreement, attacking security or peacekeeping forces, obstructing humanitarian aid, committing human rights abuses, recruiting child soldiers, trafficking drugs, people, or arms, or engaging in corruption, as well as those who support or are controlled by such persons. Suspends U.S. entry for individuals meeting these criteria, unless the Secretary of State determines entry serves the national interest. Prohibits related donations, transactions, and evasion schemes. Directs the Treasury and State Departments to implement the order, waives advance notice to affected persons, and requires periodic reports to Congress on the emergency.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13881
Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials
·Donald Trump·84 FR 34257