E.O.13380
Implementing Amendments to Agreement on Border
·George W. Bush·70 FR 35509
E.O.13379
Amendment to Executive Order 13369, Relating to the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
·George W. Bush·70 FR 35505
Amends Executive Order 13369, which established the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, by extending the deadline for the panel to submit its report from July 31, 2005 to September 30, 2005. It also states that the order does not create any legally enforceable rights or benefits against the United States or its agencies, officers, or employees.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13378
Amendments to Executive Order 12788 Relating to the Defense Economic Adjustment Program
·George W. Bush·70 FR 28413
Amends Executive Order 12788, which established the Defense Economic Adjustment Program, updating its purpose to include assisting businesses (not just communities and workers) affected by defense base closures, realignments, and contract-related adjustments, and to help state and local governments prevent civilian encroachment on military installations. Revises membership language for the Economic Adjustment Committee, removing the Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from its listed officials and renumbering the remaining entries. Specifies that the Secretary of Defense or a designee will chair the Committee, and that the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce will serve as Vice Chairmen, co-chairing meetings when the Chairman and designee are absent. Adds a provision directing the Committee to encourage resolution of regulatory issues that impede encroachment prevention and local economic adjustment efforts. States that the order creates no enforceable legal rights against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13377
Designating the African Union as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
·George W. Bush·70 FR 20263
Designates the African Union as a public international organization eligible for the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided under the International Organizations Immunities Act. The designation does not limit any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the African Union already has or may later acquire under law. The order also revokes Executive Order 11767 of February 19, 1974.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13376
Amendments to Executive Order 12863, Relating to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
·George W. Bush·70 FR 20261
Amends Executive Order 12863, which created the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, to replace references to the Director of Central Intelligence with the Director of National Intelligence, effective once that position is filled. Also adds a new provision stating that the order is meant only to improve internal executive branch management and does not create any legally enforceable rights or benefits for any person against the federal government, its agencies, officers, or employees.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13375
Amendment to Executive Order 13295 Relating to Certain Influenza Viruses and Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
·George W. Bush·70 FR 17299
Amends Executive Order 13295 by adding influenza caused by novel or reemergent viruses that are causing, or could cause, a pandemic to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases. The change, made on the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Surgeon General, expands the diseases for which federal quarantine authority under the Public Health Service Act may be applied. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights or benefits for any party against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13374
Amendments to Executive Order 12293—The Foreign Service of the United States
·George W. Bush·70 FR 12961
Amends Executive Order 12293, which governs the Foreign Service of the United States, to reset the salary ranges for the Senior Foreign Service's three classes—Career Minister, Minister-Counselor, and Counselor—tying their pay ranges to specific percentages of senior-level federal pay rates and Executive Schedule levels II and III, as authorized under the Foreign Service Act of 1980. It also updates outdated references in Executive Order 12293 by removing mentions of the Director of the International Communication Agency and the Director of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency, replacing them with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Additionally, it revokes a prior order, Executive Order 13325 of January 23, 2004. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13373
Amendments to Executive Order 11926 Relating to the Vice Presidential Service Badge
·George W. Bush·70 FR 12579
Amends Executive Order 11926, which governs the Vice Presidential Service Badge, to expand eligibility beyond the Coast Guard to also include the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service. It extends eligibility to personnel assigned predominantly to duties for the Vice President for at least one year after January 20, 2001, including those in military units and support facilities covered by Executive Order 12793. It changes who may authorize the badge, replacing the Military Assistant to the Vice President with the Vice President's designee, and adds the Secretaries of Commerce and Health and Human Services for their respective corps members. It bars awarding the badge to anyone already awarded the Presidential Service Badge for the same service period, and makes related wording changes throughout the earlier order. States that it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13372
Clarification of Certain Executive Orders Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions
·George W. Bush·70 FR 8499
Amends Executive Order 13224 and Executive Order 12947, both dealing with blocking property of persons linked to terrorism, to clarify rules on donations of articles covered by section 203(b)(2) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It determines that donations of such articles to, by, or for the benefit of persons blocked under these orders would impair the President's ability to manage the related national emergencies and are therefore prohibited. It also states that the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 does not limit agricultural or medical sanctions on persons subject to Executive Order 13224 when imminent hostilities involving U.S. Armed Forces are indicated. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is authorized to issue rules and regulations to implement the order, and may delegate these functions. All federal agencies are directed to take appropriate measures to carry out its provisions. The amendments take effect immediately, and the order creates no enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13371
Amendments to Executive Order 13285, Relating to the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation
·George W. Bush·70 FR 5041
Amends Executive Order 13285 to revise the mission and functions of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. The Council is directed to promote volunteer service and civic participation, recognize outstanding volunteers through the President's Volunteer Service Award, support local nonprofits and volunteer centers, expand public access to volunteer opportunity information, promote federally run volunteer programs, and encourage private-sector sponsorship of volunteer service. It is also tasked with encouraging participation in the award program among students, exchanging ideas on improving civic engagement, advising the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service on disseminating relevant materials, and making recommendations to the President through the Director of the USA Freedom Corps. The order also extends the Council's expiration date, stating it will end on January 29, 2007, unless further extended by the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13370
Providing an Order of Succession in the Office of Management and Budget
·George W. Bush·70 FR 3137
Establishes an order of succession for the Office of Management and Budget under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. If both the Director and Deputy Director die, resign, or otherwise cannot perform the duties of Director, the order lists officials who may temporarily act as Director, in this sequence: the Deputy Director for Management, the Executive Associate Director, several Associate Directors covering national security, general government, human resource, and natural resource programs, the General Counsel, the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management, and the Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government. It specifies that anyone already serving in one of these listed roles in an acting capacity cannot become acting Director under this order, and it preserves the President's authority to choose a different acting Director when legally permitted.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13369
President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
·George W. Bush·70 FR 2323
Establishes the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, made up of up to nine presidentially appointed members with a designated Chair and Vice Chair. Directs the panel to submit a report to the Secretary of the Treasury, no later than July 31, 2005, presenting revenue-neutral policy options for reforming the federal Internal Revenue Code. The options should aim to simplify tax laws, distribute tax burdens and benefits in an appropriately progressive way while recognizing homeownership and charity, and promote economic growth, job creation, work, saving, and investment; at least one option must use the federal income tax as its base. The Treasury Department will provide administrative support and funding, and other executive agencies must assist as needed. The panel may hold public meetings nationwide and will terminate 30 days after submitting its report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13368
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·George W. Bush·70 FR 1147
Sets adjusted rates of basic pay and salary schedules for various federal employee categories, effective at the start of 2005. Covers the General Schedule, Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal justices and judges, uniformed service members and cadets or midshipmen, locality-based pay adjustments, and administrative law judges. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. States that the monthly military and cadet pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2005, while the other pay schedules take effect at the start of the first full pay period on or after that date. Supersedes the prior pay-adjustment order, Executive Order 13332 of March 3, 2004.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13367
United States-Mexico Border Health Commission
·George W. Bush·69 FR 77605
Designates the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act. This allows members and employees of the Commission's Mexican Section to receive the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities that are normally given to officers and employees of foreign governments under United States entry and departure laws. The order states that no other privileges, exemptions, or immunities under the Act are being extended, and clarifies that this designation does not limit any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the Commission may already have or later acquire under law.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13366
Committee on Ocean Policy
·George W. Bush·69 FR 76591
Establishes the Committee on Ocean Policy within the Council on Environmental Quality to coordinate federal activities on ocean-related matters, including oceans, the Great Lakes, coasts, and related seabed and resources. The Committee is chaired by the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and includes numerous cabinet secretaries, agency heads, and White House policy advisors. It is directed to advise the President and agency heads on ocean policy, gather input from state, local, tribal, and private-sector representatives, review agency proposals on request, promote shared principles and scientific approaches to ocean issues, and help coordinate development of the ocean component of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. Executive departments and agencies must provide the Committee information and support it requests. The order also directs coordination with existing national security and homeland security structures and with a task force created under Executive Order 13340, and states that it does not alter existing legal authorities or create enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13365
2004 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
·George W. Bush·69 FR 71333
Amends the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which governs military criminal justice procedures. Adds a provision describing the Department of Defense Joint Service Committee's annual review process for proposing manual changes, and incorporates a related Defense Department directive as a new appendix. Revises numerous rules of procedure and evidence, including provisions on specifying charges, speedy trial timelines and remedies for violations, courtroom closure and spectator control, mental-responsibility defenses, sentence rehearings and reassessment, suspension or remission of sentences, and authentication of records. Updates military evidence rules covering offers of proof, character evidence, lay and expert witness testimony, business records, and self-authenticating certified records, and specifies which Federal Rules of Evidence do not apply to courts-martial. Revises offense definitions and sample specifications for rape, carnal knowledge, sodomy, perjury, and reckless endangerment involving victims under ages 12 and 16. The amendments take effect 30 days after signing, do not criminalize past conduct that was previously lawful, and do not affect proceedings already underway.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13364
Modifying the Protection Granted to the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest and Protecting the Central Bank of Iraq
·George W. Bush·69 FR 70177
Modifies the national emergency related to Iraq, first declared in Executive Order 13303 and later expanded and modified by Executive Orders 13315 and 13350, addressing threats to Iraq's reconstruction and stability, including the risk of legal claims against the Central Bank of Iraq. It amends Executive Order 13303 to bar attachments, judgments, liens, or other judicial actions against the Development Fund for Iraq, Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products (until title passes to the initial purchaser), and property held by or for the Central Bank of Iraq. It exempts final judgments arising from contractual obligations the Government of Iraq entered into after June 30, 2004. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is authorized to issue rules and regulations and use powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the United Nations Participation Act to implement the order, and may delegate these functions. All federal agencies must take appropriate action to carry out its provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13363
Establishing the Afghanistan and Iraq Campaign Medals
·George W. Bush·69 FR 70175
Establishes the Afghanistan Campaign Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal for members of the U.S. uniformed services who serve in those countries, or nearby waters and airspace, starting October 24, 2001, for Afghanistan and March 19, 2003, for Iraq, until end dates to be set by the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Secretaries of the military departments, with approval from the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security for the Coast Guard, to issue regulations governing the awards. Allows members who already qualified for the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal for the same service to keep that medal, or to apply to receive the new Afghanistan or Iraq medal instead, but limits each person to only one of the three medals for the same period of service. Permits posthumous award of either new medal under the same rules.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13362
Designation of Additional Officers for the Department of Homeland Security Order of Succession
·George W. Bush·69 FR 70173
Establishes an additional order of succession for the Secretary of Homeland Security, specifying that if the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and other officers already designated under Executive Order 13286 are unable to serve, the functions of the office pass, in listed order, to the Directors of Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions V, VI, VII, VIII, and X, provided they are eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. It states 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 depart from this succession order, as permitted by law, in designating an acting Secretary.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13361
Assignment of Functions Under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003
·George W. Bush·69 FR 67633