E.O.13374
Amendments to Executive Order 12293—The Foreign Service of the United States
·George W. Bush·70 FR 12961
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
Amends Executive Order 12163 to assign the Secretary of State functions under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003, including duties under section 304 that must be carried out after consulting the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It also adds authority related to sections of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 and section 202(d)(4)(C) of the HIV/AIDS Act, and inserts a new provision stating that officials carrying out the order must act consistently with the President's constitutional authority over foreign affairs, withholding sensitive information, recommending legislation, and supervising the executive branch. The order specifies it does not affect the Office of Management and Budget's role in budget or legislative matters, and does not create any legally enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13360
Providing Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran Businesses To Increase Their Federal Contracting and Subcontracting
·George W. Bush·69 FR 62549
Directs heads of federal executive agencies to develop and publicly report strategies to help service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses win more federal contracts and subcontracts, aiming to meet the existing 3 percent contracting goal set under the Small Business Act. Agencies must designate a senior official to lead the effort, tie results to performance plans, train staff, and share information with these businesses. The Small Business Administration must coordinate with the Department of Veterans Affairs' Center for Veterans Enterprise to provide assistance and training. The General Services Administration must create a reserved Government-wide Acquisition Contract and help these businesses join Federal Supply Schedules. The Department of Defense must add related training to its Defense Acquisition University program. The Department of Veterans Affairs must support contractor database verification, and both the Departments of Labor and Veterans Affairs must educate transitioning service members about these contracting opportunities. The order defines key terms, excludes small agencies and government corporations, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13359
Amendment to Executive Order 13173, Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley
·George W. Bush·69 FR 62391
Amends Executive Order 13173, which created the Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley. Revises the Task Force's membership to include the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, the Interior, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Energy, Labor, Transportation, and the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of National Drug Control Policy, the Administrator of General Services, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or their designees, plus other senior officials the Task Force designates. Keeps the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as Chair and directs each participating department or agency to designate one staff person for 2004 through 2006 to work on Task Force issues. Adds a reference to analyzing regulations in the Task Force's duties, and restates that the order creates no enforceable legal rights against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13358
Assignment of Functions Relating to Certain Appointments, Promotions, and Commissions in the Armed Forces
·George W. Bush·69 FR 58797
Assigns the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out certain presidential functions under specific provisions of title 10 and title 14 of the United States Code concerning appointments, promotions, and commissions in the armed forces. The Secretary of Defense handles these functions generally, except for the Coast Guard when it is not operating as part of the Navy, in which case the Secretary of Homeland Security handles them, with some exceptions involving higher officer grades such as brigadier general, rear admiral, and above. Both secretaries may delegate these functions to Senate-confirmed civilian officers within their departments, though certain functions cannot be reassigned or can only be reassigned to specific offices. The order took effect October 1, 2004, and states it does not limit the President's constitutional authority over appointments or create enforceable legal rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13357
Termination of Emergency Declared in Executive Order 12543 With Respect to the Policies and Actions of the
·George W. Bush·69 FR 56665
Terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12543 regarding the policies and actions of the Government of Libya, and revokes Executive Orders 12543, 12544, 12801, and 12538, citing Libya's commitments to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction programs and Missile Technology Control Regime-class missiles. The termination does not affect any legal actions, proceedings, rights, or penalties that arose or were pending before the effective date. The order states it creates no enforceable rights against the United States or its officials, and it takes effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2004. It directs that the order be transmitted to Congress and published in the Federal Register.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13356
Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information To Protect Americans
·George W. Bush·69 FR 53599
Directs federal agencies to prioritize the detection and disruption of terrorism and to share terrorism information with each other and with state and local authorities, while protecting Americans' privacy and legal rights. Requires agency heads holding terrorism information to give access to other agencies with counterterrorism roles, consistent with existing law. Directs the Director of Central Intelligence, within 90 days, to set common standards for sharing terrorism information at lower classification levels and with fewer restrictions. Directs the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of Central Intelligence to jointly recommend, within 90 days, government-wide rules for collecting terrorism information within the United States, including from public sources. Establishes an Information Systems Council, chaired by an Office of Management and Budget designee and including representatives from major departments and intelligence agencies, to plan an interoperable terrorism information sharing system and report a detailed implementation plan to the President within 120 days. Defines key terms such as "terrorism information" and states the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13355
Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community
·George W. Bush·69 FR 53593