E.O.13540
Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development
·Barack Obama·75 FR 22497
E.O.13539
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
·Barack Obama·75 FR 21973
Establishes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), made up of up to 21 members including the President's Science Advisor and up to 20 outside experts in science, technology, and innovation. The council advises the President and the National Science and Technology Council on policy matters involving science, technology, and innovation, and also serves as an advisory committee under the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 and the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. Directs federal agencies to share relevant information with the council when requested, allows it to form subcommittees, and permits security clearances for members handling classified matters. The Office of Science and Technology Policy must provide funding and support. Members serve unpaid but may receive travel expenses. The council terminates after two years unless extended by the President. The order also revokes Executive Order 13226 of September 30, 2001, as amended.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13538
Establishing the President's Management Advisory Board
·Barack Obama·75 FR 20895
Establishes the President's Management Advisory Board within the General Services Administration to give the President and the President's Management Council advice on federal management, focusing on productivity, technology use, and customer service. The board may have up to 18 members, including the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, who chairs it, plus up to 17 outside members appointed by the President for two-year terms based on senior private-sector experience. The General Services Administration funds and supports the board, and federal agencies must provide requested information and assistance. The board has a staff led by an Executive Director serving as Designated Federal Officer under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The board's role is strictly advisory, and it terminates two years after the order unless the President extends it.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13537
Interagency Group on Insular Areas
·Barack Obama·75 FR 20237
Establishes the Interagency Group on Insular Areas within the Department of the Interior to address federal policy affecting Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The group is co-chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, and includes heads of executive departments and other designated agency officials. It is directed to advise the President on policies affecting these territories, gather input from territorial governors and other officials and individuals, review proposed agency policies affecting the territories upon request, and submit annual reports to the President recommending policy actions. Executive departments and agencies must assist the group as needed, at their own expense. The order does not alter existing legal authorities or create enforceable rights, and it supersedes Executive Order 13299 of May 8, 2003.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13536
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia
·Barack Obama·75 FR 19869
Declares a national emergency over violence, piracy, and arms embargo violations connected to Somalia, and blocks all property and interests in property within the United States or held by U.S. persons belonging to individuals listed in an annex or later designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State. Designation criteria include threatening Somalia's peace or political process, undermining the Transitional Federal Institutions or the African Union Mission in Somalia, obstructing humanitarian assistance, supplying arms or military support to Somalia, or supporting any blocked person. Prohibits transactions, donations, and contributions involving blocked persons, as well as any transaction that evades or attempts to violate these prohibitions. Provides that no prior notice is required before blocking property. Authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue regulations, delegate authority, report to Congress, and remove designations when circumstances change. Applies to U.S. persons, entities, and government agencies, and took effect April 13, 2010.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13535
Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
·Barack Obama·75 FR 15599
Directs federal agencies to establish government-wide policies ensuring that provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act restricting federal funding of abortion services, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, are enforced. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop, within 180 days, model guidelines for state health insurance commissioners to verify that health insurance exchange plans properly segregate federal funds from funds used to cover abortion services, in consultation with agencies including the Treasury Department and the Government Accountability Office. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to initiate rulemaking based on those guidelines and to ensure that Community Health Centers receiving new federal funding under the Act comply with existing restrictions on using federal funds for abortion services, including by updating grant policy statements and issuing interpretive rules. States that it does not alter existing agency legal authority, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and creates no enforceable legal rights for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13534
National Export Initiative
·Barack Obama·75 FR 12433
Establishes the National Export Initiative to promote U.S. exports as a way to create jobs, with a stated goal of doubling exports over five years. Creates an Export Promotion Cabinet, made up of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, the Office of Management and Budget Director, the U.S. Trade Representative, the National Security Advisor, and other officials, to coordinate the effort alongside the existing Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee. Directs cabinet members to develop programs assisting small and medium-sized exporters, promote federal export-assistance resources, improve trade missions and commercial advocacy, expand export credit through the Export-Import Bank, pursue balanced global economic growth through Treasury, reduce foreign trade barriers through the U.S. Trade Representative, and build a framework for promoting services exports. Requires the Export Promotion Cabinet to deliver a comprehensive implementation plan to the President within 180 days and to report progress annually to designated congressional committees. States it does not alter existing agency authority and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13533
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Defense
·Barack Obama·75 FR 10163
Sets an order of succession within the Department of Defense, listing 19 tiers of officials, beginning with the Deputy Secretary of Defense and continuing through the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, various Under Secretaries, and other officials, who would act as Secretary of Defense if the Secretary dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to serve. It specifies that when multiple officials share the same tier, precedence goes to whoever was appointed or sworn in earliest. It excludes officials serving only in an acting capacity and requires that anyone acting as Secretary have been appointed by the President with Senate confirmation and be eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. It preserves the President's discretion to depart from this order when naming an acting Secretary, revokes Executive Order 13394, and states that it creates no legally enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13532
Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
·Barack Obama·75 FR 9749
Establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), housed in the Department of Education, to help these institutions increase participation in federal programs, build public-private partnerships, share best practices, and improve their relationship with the federal government. Requires the Secretary of Education to designate agencies that must prepare annual plans detailing efforts to boost HBCU participation in federal grants, contracts, and programs, with measurable goals and annual performance reviews, and to appoint senior liaison officials. Creates an Interagency Working Group to coordinate these efforts. Establishes the President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs, up to 25 presidentially appointed members from education, business, philanthropy, and finance sectors, to advise the President and Secretary on strengthening HBCU competitiveness, visibility, and fiscal security, and to report annually. Applies to designated executive departments and agencies, which must provide information and bear their own participation costs. Revokes Executive Order 13256.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13531
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
·Barack Obama·75 FR 7927
Establishes the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform within the Executive Office of the President, made up of 18 members: six appointed by the President, and twelve current members of Congress selected by the Senate and House majority and minority leaders. Two of the President's appointees, from different political parties, are designated as Co-Chairs. The Commission is tasked with proposing recommendations to balance the federal budget, excluding interest payments, by 2015, and to improve the long-term fiscal outlook, including addressing entitlement spending growth and gaps between projected revenues and expenditures. It must vote on a final report by December 1, 2010, requiring approval from at least 14 of its 18 members. Members serve without additional pay but may receive travel expenses, and the Commission has a staff led by an Executive Director. It terminates 30 days after submitting its final report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13530
President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability
·Barack Obama·75 FR 5481
Establishes the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability within the Department of the Treasury to promote financial capability among Americans. The Council consists of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Education, and up to 22 presidentially appointed members from outside the federal government, including academics and researchers in financial education. It is tasked with gathering input from federal, state, local, and tribal officials, financial services providers, consumers, and experts; advising the President and Treasury Secretary on ways to build financial education and access, especially for underserved populations; and reporting periodically on the state of financial capability and progress made. The Treasury Department will fund and administer the Council, and members serve unpaid, though travel expenses may be reimbursed. The Secretary will designate an Executive Director to oversee administrative support. The Council terminates two years after the order's date unless extended by the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13529
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
·Barack Obama·75 FR 3331
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as part of the Navy, to order units and individual members of the Selected Reserve, as well as certain members of the Individual Ready Reserve designated as essential, to active duty. The order states this action is needed to increase the active Armed Forces to conduct operational missions, including humanitarian assistance, related to relief efforts in Haiti following the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It also allows those officials to terminate the active-duty service of such units and members. The order specifies that it does not create any legally enforceable right or benefit for any party against the United States or its officers, employees, or agents.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13528
Establishment of the Council of Governors
·Barack Obama·75 FR 2053
Establishes a Council of Governors made up of 10 state governors appointed by the President, with no more than five from the same political party, serving two-year terms that may be renewed. The President designates two Members from different parties as Co-Chairs. The Council meets at the call of the Secretary of Defense or the Co-Chairs to exchange views and advice with defense and homeland security officials, including the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and military commanders, on matters involving the National Guard, homeland defense, civil support, and coordination between state and federal military activities. The Secretary of Defense designates an Executive Director to coordinate the Council's work and provides administrative support upon request of the Co-Chairs. Members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The Council may form subcommittees and adopt a charter to refine its operations. The order defines relevant terms and states it does not alter existing legal authorities or create enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13527
Establishing Federal Capability for the Timely Provision of Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological Attack
·Barack Obama·75 FR 737
Establishes a national policy to prepare for rapid federal distribution of medical countermeasures, such as vaccines or antibiotics, to the public following a biological attack. Directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, working with the U.S. Postal Service, to create within 180 days a model using postal workers to deliver medical countermeasures to homes in affected cities, with anthrax as the primary scenario. Also directs those officials, along with the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, to develop plans within 180 days for supplementing local law enforcement to escort postal workers during deliveries. Requires the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, with the Secretary of Defense, to develop within 90 days a concept of operations for a federal rapid response capability to dispense countermeasures after a large-scale attack. Also requires a plan within 180 days to ensure federal employees performing essential functions receive countermeasures so government operations can continue.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13526
Classified National Security Information
·Barack Obama·75 FR 707
Establishes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information. Sets three classification levels (Top Secret, Secret, Confidential), limits who may originally classify information, requires annual training for classifying officials, and bars classification to conceal wrongdoing or avoid embarrassment. Sets default declassification timelines of 10 to 25 years, with automatic declassification of most records after 25 years unless agencies obtain specific exemptions, and further review points at 50 and 75 years. Creates a National Declassification Center within the National Archives to coordinate declassification of historical records, and continues the Information Security Oversight Office and an Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel to issue guidance, resolve disputes, and hear challenges and appeals from agencies and members of the public. Sets rules for access, special access programs, handling of foreign government information, and sanctions for misclassification or unauthorized disclosure. Revokes Executive Order 12958 and its amendment, Executive Order 13292. Applies to all executive branch agencies handling classified information, with most provisions effective 180 days after signing.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13525
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·Barack Obama·74 FR 69231
Sets adjusted rates of basic pay and salary schedules for various federal employee categories, including the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal judges, uniformed service members and military cadets and midshipmen, and administrative law judges. It also directs locality-based comparability payments under existing law and instructs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement these payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Most of the pay schedules take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period on or after January 1, 2010, while the schedule for uniformed services pay takes effect January 1, 2010. The order supersedes Executive Order 13483 of December 18, 2008, and attaches ten detailed pay schedules covering these categories.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13524
Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
·Barack Obama·74 FR 67803
Amends Executive Order 12425, which designated the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) as a public international organization entitled to certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities under the International Organizations Immunities Act. The order removes language in the earlier order that had excluded INTERPOL from privileges and immunities covered by specific sections of that Act, extending those additional protections to INTERPOL.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13523
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
·Barack Obama·74 FR 66563
Directs executive branch departments and agencies to close, and excuses their employees from duty, for the second half of the scheduled workday on Thursday, December 24, 2009. Allows the heads of departments and agencies to keep certain offices or employees on duty for the full day if needed for national security, defense, or other public purposes. Specifies that the half-day falls under the pay and leave provisions of Executive Order 11582 and related federal statutes governing employee compensation. States that the order does not create any legally enforceable rights or benefits against the United States or its officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13522
Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services
·Barack Obama·74 FR 66203
Establishes the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, co-chaired by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, with membership including federal union leaders, agency officials, and management associations. The Council is to advise the President on labor-management relations, promote labor-management forums across federal agencies, and develop pilot programs for bargaining over certain subjects under federal labor law. Directs heads of executive departments and agencies with union-represented employees to create labor-management forums allowing employee and union input on workplace matters, and to submit implementation plans to the Council within 90 days, with certification required within 150 days. Directs the Council to recommend pilot bargaining projects within 150 days and report on their results within 18 months of implementation. States it does not override existing collective bargaining agreements or create enforceable legal rights, and the Council terminates two years after signing unless extended.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13521
Establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
·Barack Obama·74 FR 62671