E.O.13408
Amending Executive Order 13381, As Amended, To Extend its Duration by One Year
·George W. Bush·71 FR 37807
E.O.13407
Public Alert and Warning System
·George W. Bush·71 FR 36975
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a public alert and warning system to reach Americans during war, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, or other threats. The Secretary must inventory existing federal, state, tribal, and local alert resources, set common protocols and standards for interoperability, ensure alerts reach people with disabilities and non-English speakers, maintain communications infrastructure, conduct training and public education, and administer the Emergency Alert System, all while ensuring the President can always communicate with the public. Other agencies, including the Departments of Commerce and Defense and the Federal Communications Commission, must assist as requested. The Secretary must submit an implementation plan to the President within 90 days and annual reports thereafter. The order amends Executive Order 12472 to replace references to the former Emergency Broadcast System, requires new guidance within 120 days that will revoke a 1995 presidential memorandum on emergency communications, and calls for an orderly transition to the new system without loss of existing capability.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13406
Protecting the Property Rights of the American People
·George W. Bush·71 FR 36973
Sets federal policy limiting the government's use of eminent domain to takings of private property for public use, with just compensation, and prohibits takings whose purpose is mainly to benefit the economic interests of private parties who would receive the property. Directs the Attorney General to issue instructions to federal department and agency heads implementing this policy and to monitor agency takings for compliance; department and agency heads must follow those instructions and supply requested compliance information, to the extent permitted by law. Lists exclusions where takings remain permitted, including for public facilities, common-carrier or public-utility projects, abandoned property, title-clearing, property disposal or exchange, and military, law enforcement, or public health emergencies. States it must be implemented consistent with existing law, available funding, and Executive Order 12630, does not affect existing agency legal authority or Office of Management and Budget budget functions, and creates no enforceable legal rights for any person.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13405
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus
·George W. Bush·71 FR 35485
Declares a national emergency over actions by members of the Government of Belarus and others who undermine democratic processes, commit human rights abuses tied to political repression, or engage in public corruption, citing the March 2006 elections. Blocks all property and interests in property within the United States, or held by U.S. persons, belonging to individuals listed in an annex to the order or later designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, for such conduct or for materially supporting or being controlled by designated persons. Prohibits donations, contributions, or transactions that benefit blocked persons, as well as any transactions or conspiracies designed to evade these restrictions. Directs the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations, authorizes delisting when circumstances change, and applies to all U.S. persons and entities. The order took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on June 19, 2006.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13404
Task Force on New Americans
·George W. Bush·71 FR 33593
Establishes a Task Force on New Americans within the Department of Homeland Security, chaired by the Secretary of Homeland Security, with members from the State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Education departments, plus other officials the Secretary designates. The task force is directed to guide federal agencies on helping legal immigrants integrate into American society, especially through English language, civics, and history instruction; promote public-private partnerships encouraging businesses to offer such education; identify ways to expand instruction through faith-based and community groups and encourage volunteer service; and periodically recommend to the President, through the Secretary, ways to improve interagency and federal-state-local cooperation, policy or regulatory changes, and legislation on immigrant integration. The Department must provide funding and administrative support as the Secretary determines, subject to available appropriations and existing legal authorities. The order states it is meant to improve internal government management and does not create enforceable legal rights for any outside party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13403
Amendments to Executive Orders 11030, 13279, 13339, 13381, and 13389, and Revocation of Executive Order 13011
·George W. Bush·71 FR 28543
Makes a series of technical amendments to earlier executive orders. It updates formatting and legal citation language in Executive Order 11030, which governs proposed federal legislation and agency reports. It revises the definition of 'specified agency heads' under Executive Order 13279, concerning faith-based and community initiatives, to include the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. It changes an expiration provision in Executive Order 13339 to a fixed date of May 13, 2007, unless extended by the President, and adjusts expiration language in Executive Order 13381 concerning safeguarding classified national security information. It also makes minor textual edits to Executive Order 13389. Separately, it revokes Executive Order 13011, which had addressed Federal Information Technology. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13402
Strengthening Federal Efforts To Protect Against Identity Theft
·George W. Bush·71 FR 27945
Establishes an Identity Theft Task Force to strengthen federal efforts against identity theft, chaired by the Attorney General and co-chaired by the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, with membership including the Secretaries of the Treasury, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Commissioner of Social Security, several financial regulators, and the Postmaster General. Directs the Task Force to review existing federal activities and submit a coordinated strategic plan to the President within 180 days to improve identity theft awareness, prevention, detection, and prosecution. Also directs it to coordinate federal efforts, gather input from state, local, and tribal governments and private entities, promote cooperation between federal and local law enforcement, and provide ongoing advice to the President and agency heads. The Task Force is housed within the Department of Justice, which provides its funding and administrative support, and may be terminated by the Attorney General or the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13401
Responsibilities of Federal Departments and Agencies With Respect to Volunteer Community Service
·George W. Bush·71 FR 25737
Directs the head of each federal executive agency to designate, within 20 days, a senior official as an agency liaison for volunteer community service. The liaison is tasked with promoting volunteering among agency employees, reviewing agency policies related to community service, coordinating public recognition efforts, working with the USA Freedom Corps and the Office of Personnel Management, and administering the President's Volunteer Service Award within the agency. Agencies must give their liaisons adequate administrative support. Each liaison must submit a report to the USA Freedom Corps within 180 days and annually thereafter, describing agency activities and, starting with the first report, performance indicators and objectives approved by the agency head. The order revokes Executive Order 12820 of November 5, 1992, applies only as consistent with existing law and available funding, and states that it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13400
Blocking Property of Persons in Connection With the Conflict in Sudan's Darfur Region
·George W. Bush·71 FR 25483
Expands the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13067 regarding Sudan to address the conflict in Darfur. Blocks all property and interests in property within the United States, or under the control of 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, as threatening peace or stability in Darfur, violating international law, supplying arms to warring parties, conducting offensive military overflights, or supporting such activities. Prohibits donations, contributions, and transactions that evade these restrictions, and bars conspiracies to violate the order. Defines key terms, including exceptions for humanitarian, peacekeeping, and Comprehensive Peace Agreement-related supplies. Authorizes the Treasury Department to issue regulations, delegate authority, remove persons from the list when warranted, and report to Congress. States that affected persons need not receive prior notice before being listed. Takes effect April 27, 2006.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13399
Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria
·George W. Bush·71 FR 25059
Expands the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 regarding Syria by blocking the U.S. property and assets of additional persons. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting the Secretary of State, to designate individuals or entities found to have planned, sponsored, or carried out the 2005 Beirut bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others, or related bombings and assassination attempts in Lebanon since October 2004, or to have obstructed the UN investigative commission into those acts, or provided material support to such persons. It bars transactions and donations benefiting designated persons, prohibits evasion or conspiracy to violate the order, and states that no prior notice is required before blocking assets. The Treasury Secretary may issue implementing regulations and delegate authority, and other federal agencies must assist in carrying out the order. It took effect April 26, 2006.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13398
National Mathematics Advisory Panel
·George W. Bush·71 FR 20519
Establishes the National Mathematics Advisory Panel within the Department of Education to advise the President and the Secretary of Education on improving mathematics education for American students. The Panel may have up to 30 members, including up to 20 from outside the federal government appointed by the Secretary and up to 10 federal officials, with the Secretary naming a chair. It must submit a preliminary report by January 31, 2007, and a final report by February 28, 2008, covering topics such as effective teaching methods, teacher training, curriculum standards, assessment design, and research needs in mathematics education, plus any other reports the Secretary requests. The Department will fund and support the Panel, which may consult federal, state, local, and tribal officials, experts, parents, and teachers. Non-federal members serve unpaid but may receive travel expenses. The Panel terminates two years after the order's date unless extended by the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13397
Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security With Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
·George W. Bush·71 FR 12275
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives within the Department of Homeland Security, to begin operations within 45 days, supervised by a director appointed in consultation with the Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The Center is tasked with auditing the department for regulatory, contracting, or outreach barriers that discourage participation by faith-based and other community organizations in Department programs, proposing reforms to remove such barriers, developing pilot programs, and improving outreach and information sharing with these organizations. The Center must report to the White House office's director within 180 days and annually thereafter, detailing identified barriers, strategies to address them, and performance measures. The Secretary must also designate a liaison to coordinate with the White House office. Implementation depends on available funding and existing law, and the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13396
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire
·George W. Bush·71 FR 7389
Declares a national emergency over the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire, citing massacres, human rights abuses, political violence, and attacks on international peacekeepers, and invokes United Nations Security Council Resolution 1572. Blocks all property and financial interests in the United States, or under the control of U.S. persons, belonging to individuals listed in an annex to the order. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting the Secretary of State, to designate additional persons for blocking if they threaten Côte d'Ivoire's peace process, violate international law, supply arms, incite violence, or support such activities. Prohibits donations, transactions, and conspiracies that would evade these restrictions, with some exemptions for humanitarian, peacekeeping, and evacuation-related supplies. Directs federal agencies to help enforce the order, allows the Treasury Secretary to remove individuals from the blocked list, and requires periodic reports to Congress. Takes effect February 8, 2006.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13395
Designating the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
·George W. Bush·71 FR 3203
Designates the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act, making it eligible for the privileges, exemptions, and immunities that law provides. The order relies on authority granted by sections 1 and 16 of that act. It clarifies that this designation does not limit or replace any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the Global Fund has already obtained or may obtain separately under other laws.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13394
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Defense
·George W. Bush·70 FR 76665
Establishes the order in which officials within the Department of Defense will act as Secretary of Defense if the Secretary dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to serve. The line of succession runs from the Deputy Secretary of Defense through a series of under secretaries, service secretaries, deputy under secretaries, the General Counsel, and various assistant secretaries and general counsels of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Officials serving in an office only in an acting capacity are excluded from acting as Secretary, and precedence among officials at the same level is determined by appointment date or, if tied, by the date they took their oath of office. The President retains discretion to depart from this order when designating an acting Secretary. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights, and it revokes Executive Order 13000 of April 24, 1996, along with a June 2, 2005 presidential memorandum on the same subject.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13393
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·George W. Bush·70 FR 76655
Sets updated federal pay rates across multiple compensation systems, attaching detailed schedules for the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal judges, uniformed services members and cadets/midshipmen, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judges. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement the locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Most schedules take effect on the first day of the first pay period on or after January 1, 2006, while the uniformed services pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2006. Supersedes the prior pay order, Executive Order 13368 of December 30, 2004. The order applies broadly to federal civilian employees, senior executives, judges, elected officials, and military personnel.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13392
Improving Agency Disclosure of Information
·George W. Bush·70 FR 75373
Directs federal agencies to improve how they handle Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Requires each agency head to designate, within 30 days, a senior Chief FOIA Officer responsible for overseeing compliance, monitoring performance, and recommending improvements. Agencies must establish FOIA Requester Service Centers and designate FOIA Public Liaisons to help the public track requests and resolve disputes. Each agency's Chief FOIA Officer must review current FOIA operations, identify backlogs, and develop a plan for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to streamline processing and increase public access to records. Agency heads must report review results and plans to the Attorney General and the Office of Management and Budget Director within six months, and include progress updates in annual FOIA reports. The Attorney General must report to the President on agency implementation within ten months and issue further updates by June 2007 and June 2008. The order also directs the Attorney General and OMB Director to issue implementing guidance, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.”,Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13391
Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe
·George W. Bush·70 FR 71201
Amends Executive Order 13288, which declared a national emergency over actions undermining Zimbabwe's democratic processes, by replacing its annex listing sanctioned individuals with a new, expanded list and renumbering and revising its operative sections. It blocks all property and interests in property within the United States, or under the control of U.S. persons, belonging to those listed in the annex, as well as anyone the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, later determines has undermined Zimbabwe's democratic institutions, materially supported such actions, is an immediate family member of a blocked person, or is owned or controlled by one. It prohibits related donations, transactions, and conspiracies to evade these restrictions, dispenses with prior notice to affected persons, and authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations and later remove individuals from the list. It took effect November 23, 2005.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13390
Establishment of a Coordinator of Federal Support for the Recovery and Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Region
·George W. Bush·70 FR 67327
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Coordinator of Federal Support for the Recovery and Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Region within the Department of Homeland Security, to be selected by the President and appointed by the Secretary. The Coordinator, reporting directly to the Secretary, is tasked with coordinating the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, developing the guiding principles and goals of that response with input from other agencies, overseeing implementation of related policies and programs, and serving as the main point of contact for the President, Congress, state and local governments, the private sector, and community leaders. Heads of executive departments and agencies must respond promptly to the Coordinator's requests and cooperate with the mission. The order does not alter existing legal authorities, budget functions, or military chain of command, applies subject to available funding, and terminates three years after signing.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13389
Creation of the Gulf Coast Recovery and Rebuilding Council
·George W. Bush·70 FR 67325