E.O.13754
Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience
·Barack Obama·81 FR 90669
E.O.13753
Amending the Order of Succession in the Department of Homeland Security
·Barack Obama·81 FR 90667
Amends Executive Order 13286 to set a new order of succession for the Secretary of Homeland Security, listing eighteen officials—starting with the Deputy Secretary, followed by the Under Secretary for Management, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other department leaders—who would act as Secretary if that office becomes vacant or the Secretary is unable to serve, provided they are eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. It specifies that an official serving in one of these listed positions only in an acting capacity cannot become acting Secretary under this order, and that the President retains discretion to name a different acting Secretary as allowed by that Act. It also revokes Executive Order 13442, which had previously set the department's succession order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13752
Relating to the Implementation of the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
·Barack Obama·81 FR 90181
Designates the Department of Health and Human Services as the United States' Central Authority under the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, which took effect for the U.S. on January 1, 2017. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations and take actions necessary to carry out the Central Authority's functions under the Convention. Allows the Central Authority to designate state agencies that administer Title IV-D child support programs under the Social Security Act as public bodies able to perform specific functions related to Convention applications. States that the order does not alter existing agency authority or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary role, must be carried out consistent with existing law and available funding, and does not create any legally enforceable rights against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13751
Safeguarding the Nation From the Impacts of Invasive Species
·Barack Obama·81 FR 88609
Amends Executive Order 13112 to update federal policy on invasive species. It revises key definitions, directs federal agencies to identify actions affecting the spread of invasive species, and requires them to prevent, detect, monitor, research, and control such species while coordinating with state, local, tribal, and foreign partners. It expands the National Invasive Species Council's membership to include additional agencies, keeps the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce Secretaries as co-chairs, and retains the Invasive Species Advisory Committee. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to report on public health impacts of invasive species within one year, requires the Council to publish a National Invasive Species Council Management Plan by December 31, 2019 and update it every three years, and calls for a scientific and programmatic challenges assessment by 2020. It also allows the State and Defense Departments to exempt certain actions for foreign policy, readiness, or national security reasons, and clarifies that the order does not affect Health and Human Services' existing statutory obligations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13750
Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, and the Critical Language Scholarship Program to the Competitive Service
·Barack Obama·81 FR 87393
Allows the head of any executive branch agency to hire, without going through normal competitive hiring procedures, individuals certified by the Secretary of State as having successfully completed the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, or the Critical Language Scholarship Program. The Secretary of State must issue certificates verifying program completion upon request. Such appointments must generally occur within one year of finishing the program, extendable up to three years for military service, further study, background checks, or other qualifying activities. Appointees become career conditional employees. Standard disqualifying factors for federal employment, such as citizenship requirements, anti-nepotism rules, and Selective Service registration failures, still apply. The Office of Personnel Management may issue regulations to implement the order, though eligible individuals may be hired noncompetitively even without additional rules. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights and must be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13749
Providing for the Appointment in the Competitive Service of Certain Employees of the Foreign Service
·Barack Obama·81 FR 87391
Allows the head of any federal executive branch agency to noncompetitively appoint, into the competitive civil service, individuals who completed at least 48 months of continuous service in the State Department's Foreign Service under a Limited Non-Career Appointment, provided they pass any examination required by the Office of Personnel Management. Eligible individuals must have received a satisfactory or better performance rating and generally must use this appointment path within one year of completing their Foreign Service term, though that window can be extended up to three years for military service, further education, background investigations, or other qualifying activities. Those appointed become career conditional employees. Standard disqualifying factors for competitive service appointment, such as citizenship requirements, anti-nepotism rules, and Selective Service registration failures, still apply. The Office of Personnel Management may issue implementing regulations, though eligibility applies even without them. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights and must be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13748
Establishing a Community Solutions Council
·Barack Obama·81 FR 83619
Establishes a Council for Community Solutions, co-chaired by a senior White House official or the Office of Management and Budget director and a rotating agency head, to coordinate federal efforts supporting communities. The Council includes numerous cabinet secretaries and agency heads, and is tasked with aligning federal investments, promoting evidence-based and locally led policymaking, building local capacity, and conducting outreach to nonprofits, businesses, local governments, and other stakeholders. It directs a designated Co-Chair to appoint an Executive Director to coordinate the Council's work, allows agencies to detail staff to support it, and calls for coordination with existing federal working groups and initiatives addressing community development, environmental justice, and economic revitalization. The order revokes Executive Orders 13560 and 13602, which had established earlier White House councils on community solutions and strong cities. It states that implementation depends on existing law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13747
Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda To Achieve a World Safe and Secure From Infectious Disease Threats
·Barack Obama·81 FR 78701
Establishes a policy of advancing the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a multi-country initiative to build countries' capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Creates a GHSA Interagency Review Council, chaired by a National Security Council staff member, made up of Assistant Secretary-level representatives from agencies including the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FBI, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Council must meet at least four times a year, issue initial policy guidance within 30 days, produce annual progress reports, and deliver an overall review to the President by September 2019. It assigns specific coordination, technical, and diplomatic responsibilities to named agency heads, including engagement with international bodies such as the World Health Organization and INTERPOL, while stating the order does not interfere with the Secretary of State's foreign affairs authority or create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13746
Advancing the Goals of the Power Africa Initiative to Expand Access to Electricity in Sub- Saharan Africa Through the Establishment of the President's Power Africa Working Group
·Barack Obama·81 FR 78697
Establishes a Coordinator for Power Africa position within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and creates the President's Power Africa Working Group to coordinate federal efforts supporting the Power Africa initiative, which aims to add 30,000 megawatts of electricity generation capacity and 60 million new household and business connections in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. The Working Group, co-chaired by the USAID Coordinator and a National Security Council staff member, includes representatives from agencies such as the State Department, Treasury, Commerce, Energy, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and others. It is tasked with identifying and prioritizing energy projects, coordinating financial and technical assistance, engaging private-sector and international partners, and monitoring progress. Directs participating agencies to facilitate involvement of local and regional African companies in power and climate-related projects, and directs USAID's Administrator to lead development of a progress report to Congress under the Electrify Africa Act of 2015.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13745
Delegation of Function to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management
·Barack Obama·81 FR 76493
Delegates to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management the president's authority under federal law to direct the establishment of an emergency leave transfer program, which allows federal employees to donate unused leave to coworkers affected by emergencies. The Director must exercise this authority in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and must notify the President whenever such a program is established. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights or benefits for any party against the federal government or its officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13744
Coordinating Efforts To Prepare the Nation for Space Weather Events
·Barack Obama·81 FR 71573
Directs federal agencies to coordinate preparation for space weather events such as solar flares, solar energetic particles, and geomagnetic disturbances that could disrupt critical infrastructure like the power grid, GPS, and satellite communications. Assigns specific roles to agencies including Defense, Interior, Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and State, covering forecasting, alerts, grid protection, and diplomacy. Establishes a Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation Subcommittee under the National Science and Technology Council, coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Sets deadlines for specific actions: within 120 days, the Energy Secretary must develop a grid-protection pilot program, sector-specific agencies must assess their authority over critical infrastructure during space weather events, and Defense and Commerce must release historical satellite data publicly; within 60 days, several agencies must identify ways to improve observation and forecasting; and the Department of Homeland Security must lead development of a federal response operating concept, followed by agency operational plans. Also calls for public-private and international cooperation and defines key terms used throughout the order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13743
Charitable Fundraising
·Barack Obama·81 FR 71571
Amends Executive Order 12353, which governs the Combined Federal Campaign, the annual workplace charitable fundraising program for federal employees and members of the uniformed services. Replaces terms like "voluntary agencies" and "recipient agencies" throughout the earlier order with "voluntary health and welfare organizations" and "recipient organizations." Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to arrange for eligible organizations to solicit contributions and pledges of volunteer time from federal employees and service members, and to consider allowing retirees to contribute through allotments from their federal annuities. Updates rules for local, non-nationally-affiliated charities to participate if they meet eligibility criteria, and revises provisions on outreach coordinators, central campaign administrators, and how solicited funds must be designated and reported. States that existing rules and directives under the prior order remain in effect until changed, and that the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13742
Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Actions and Policies of the Government of Burma
·Barack Obama·81 FR 70593
Terminates the national emergency declared in 1997 regarding actions and policies of the Government of Burma, and revokes Executive Orders 13047, 13310, 13448, 13464, 13619, and 13651, citing Burma's democratic progress including the 2015 elections and formation of a civilian-led government. States that ending the emergency does not affect prior actions, pending proceedings, or rights and penalties that already applied. Waives sanctions under section 5(b) of the Tom Lantos Block Burmese JADE Act, finding it in the national interest to do so. Lifts related suspensions on entry into the United States for immigrants and nonimmigrants who had been restricted under the revoked orders and a related presidential proclamation, meaning those individuals are no longer barred on that basis. Clarifies that it creates no enforceable legal rights against the United States or its officials, and takes effect at 1:00 p.m. eastern daylight time on October 7, 2016.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13741
Amending Executive Order 13467 To Establish the Roles and Responsibilities of the National Background Investigations Bureau and Related Matters
·Barack Obama·81 FR 68289
Amends Executive Order 13467 to establish the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) within the Office of Personnel Management as the government's primary provider of background investigations for security clearances, sensitive positions, employment suitability, contractor fitness, and federal credentialing. Adds the NBIB Director to the Suitability and Security Clearance Performance Accountability Council and sets out the Bureau's responsibilities, including coordination with the Council and maintaining privacy resources. Assigns the Secretary of Defense responsibility for building, securing, and operating the information technology systems supporting NBIB's investigations. Directs the Council, within 90 days, to recommend updates to related executive orders, including possibly creating a Credentialing Executive Agent, clarifying oversight roles between Security and Suitability Executive Agents, defining 'vetting,' and assigning responsibility for enterprise-wide functions like acquisition and data security. Also amends Executive Order 12171 to reflect the reorganization of Office of Personnel Management units handling investigations, suitability, and related technology support.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13740
2016 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
·Barack Obama·81 FR 65175
Amends Parts I, II, and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, incorporating changes described in an attached annex. The amendments take effect as of the date of the order but do not make punishable any act or omission that occurred before that date and was not previously punishable. They also do not invalidate nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraint, investigations, referral of charges, trials already arraigned, or other actions begun before the effective date, which may continue as if the amendments had not been issued. The order applies to military justice proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13739
Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Situation in or in Relation to Côte d'Ivoire
·Barack Obama·81 FR 63673
Terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 of February 7, 2006, regarding the situation in Côte d'Ivoire, and revokes that order. The order states that the emergency, originally declared due to civilian massacres, human rights abuses, political violence, and attacks on international peacekeeping forces, has been significantly altered by progress including the October 2015 presidential election, improved management of arms and related materiel, and efforts against illicit trafficking of natural resources, as well as the United Nations Security Council's removal of multilateral sanctions in Resolution 2283. It specifies that ending the emergency does not affect pending legal actions, proceedings, or matured rights and duties arising before the termination date, and does not create new enforceable rights against the United States. The order took effect at 8:00 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 14, 2016.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13738
Amendment to Executive Order 13673
·Barack Obama·81 FR 58807
Amends Executive Order 13673 (Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces), which concerns federal contracting and compliance with labor laws. The changes redirect certain disclosures of labor law violations so that subcontractors report to an entity designated under a forthcoming Federal Acquisition Regulation rule, rather than directly to contractors, and adjust related provisions so contracting officers rely on that entity's advice or the information it receives. It also removes a cross-reference in a separate subsection. The order states it does not affect existing legal authority of agencies or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, does not create enforceable rights for any party, and is to be applied consistent with existing law and available funding. It takes effect immediately and applies to contract solicitations covered by a final rule to be issued by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council under this order and the original 2014 order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13737
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency
·Barack Obama·81 FR 54713
Establishes an order of succession within the Environmental Protection Agency, listing sixteen officials, from the General Counsel through various Assistant Administrators, the Chief Financial Officer, and several regional and deputy positions, who would act as Administrator if both the Administrator and Deputy Administrator die, resign, or otherwise become unable to serve. It specifies that officials serving in an acting capacity in a listed office cannot become Administrator under this order, and that anyone in the list must still meet eligibility requirements under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. The President retains authority to depart from this order in naming an acting Administrator. The order revokes the prior succession order, Executive Order 13614 of May 21, 2012, and states that it creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13736
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Veterans Affairs
·Barack Obama·81 FR 54711
Establishes an order of succession within the Department of Veterans Affairs, listing officials who would act as Secretary of Veterans Affairs if both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary die, resign, or become unable to serve. The order lists ten positions in sequence, starting with the Under Secretary for Health and including the Under Secretary for Benefits, Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, Chief of Staff, General Counsel and Assistant Secretaries, the Chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, and several regional network directors. It bars anyone serving in one of these roles only in an acting capacity from becoming acting Secretary under this order, and requires that anyone stepping in be otherwise eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The President retains authority to depart from this list when naming an acting Secretary. The order revokes a prior 2001 executive order and parts of a 2002 order, along with two earlier presidential memoranda on the same subject, and states that it creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13735
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of the Treasury
·Barack Obama·81 FR 54709