E.O.13884
Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela
·Donald Trump·84 FR 38843
E.O.13883
Administration of Proliferation Sanctions and Amendment of Executive Order 12851
·Donald Trump·84 FR 38113
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to implement proliferation-related sanctions against a country selected under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, including opposing loans or assistance to that country from international financial institutions and prohibiting U.S. banks from making loans or extending credit to its government, except for food or agricultural purchases. Prohibits transactions or conspiracies that evade or violate this loan ban. Amends Executive Order 12851 to delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to oppose multilateral development bank assistance and prohibit bank loans once the Secretary of State makes the relevant determination. Defines terms such as "entity," "government," and "United States bank," and authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue rules and regulations and redelegate functions within the department. States it does not affect existing agency authorities or create enforceable rights, and applies subject to available appropriations and existing law. Relates to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13882
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Mali
·Donald Trump·84 FR 37055
Declares a national emergency over the situation in Mali, citing ceasefire violations, expanding terrorist activity, drug and human trafficking, human rights abuses, and attacks on civilians and peacekeepers. Blocks all U.S. property and interests of persons the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines are responsible for threatening Mali's peace or democratic institutions, violating the 2015 peace agreement, attacking security or peacekeeping forces, obstructing humanitarian aid, committing human rights abuses, recruiting child soldiers, trafficking drugs, people, or arms, or engaging in corruption, as well as those who support or are controlled by such persons. Suspends U.S. entry for individuals meeting these criteria, unless the Secretary of State determines entry serves the national interest. Prohibits related donations, transactions, and evasion schemes. Directs the Treasury and State Departments to implement the order, waives advance notice to affected persons, and requires periodic reports to Congress on the emergency.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13881
Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials
·Donald Trump·84 FR 34257
Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to consider, within 180 days, proposing stricter rules under the Buy American Act. The proposal would raise the domestic-content threshold for iron and steel end products so that materials count as foreign-made if foreign iron and steel make up 5 percent or more of the cost, and for other end products if foreign content reaches 45 percent or more. It would also change the price-differential formula used to judge whether domestic bids are unreasonably priced compared with foreign ones, adding 20 percent for large businesses or 30 percent for small businesses to foreign offers. The FAR Council must evaluate public comments and issue a final rule if appropriate. This order partially supersedes Executive Order 10582, revoking parts of it once a final rule takes effect. It also directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, within 180 days, to report on further FAR changes, including whether to later lower the 45 percent threshold to 25 percent.'Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13880
Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection With the Decennial Census
·Donald Trump·84 FR 33821
Directs all federal agencies to give the Department of Commerce maximum permissible assistance, including access to administrative records, so it can determine the number of citizens, non-citizens, and illegal aliens in the country after the Supreme Court's ruling blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census. Names specific agencies and records to be shared, including immigration, visa, passport, Social Security, and Medicaid data. Establishes an interagency working group, chaired by the Director of the Census Bureau, to coordinate efforts to obtain records covering the entire population. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to consider adding a citizenship question to the 2030 census, to consider expanding the American Community Survey's reach, and to seek additional state administrative records. States that data collected will be used only to produce statistics under Title 13 confidentiality protections and not for enforcement actions against individuals. Notes the policy is meant to inform immigration and public-benefits policymaking and potential state redistricting decisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13879
Advancing American Kidney Health
·Donald Trump·84 FR 33817
Sets federal policy on kidney disease prevention, treatment, and organ transplants, directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take a series of actions on specific timelines. Within 30 days, the Secretary must select Medicare payment models to encourage earlier treatment of at-risk patients and to increase home dialysis and kidney transplants. Within 90 days, the Secretary must propose regulations improving Organ Procurement Organization performance metrics and reducing financial barriers for living organ donors, including expanded reimbursement for travel, lost wages, and child- or elder-care costs. Within 120 days, the Secretary must launch a kidney disease awareness initiative, announce a process for reviewing wearable or implantable artificial kidney devices, and produce a strategy for the Kidney Innovation Accelerator, a partnership with the American Society of Nephrology. Within 180 days, the Secretary must streamline kidney matching and delivery to reduce organ discard rates. The order applies to the Department of Health and Human Services and Medicare beneficiaries with kidney disease.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13878
Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
·Donald Trump·84 FR 30853
Establishes a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, chaired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development with the Assistants to the President for Domestic Policy and Economic Policy as Vice Chairs, and including numerous other cabinet secretaries and agency heads. The Council is directed to work with federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector stakeholders to identify laws, regulations, and administrative practices that raise housing development costs and limit housing supply, evaluate their economic effects, assess what agencies can do under existing authority to reduce such barriers, and recommend policy changes at all levels of government to streamline regulation and encourage affordable housing development. The Department of Housing and Urban Development provides funding and administrative support. The Council's Vice Chairs must report to the President on implementation within 12 months, plus further reports as requested. Agencies must assist the Council as needed. The Council terminates on January 21, 2021, unless the President extends it.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13877
Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare To Put Patients First
·Donald Trump·84 FR 30849
Directs several federal agencies to expand price and quality transparency in healthcare. Within 60 days, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must propose a rule requiring hospitals to publicly post standard charges, including negotiated rates, in a consumer-friendly, machine-readable format. Within 90 days, the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor must seek public comment on requiring insurers and providers to disclose expected out-of-pocket costs before care. Within 180 days, agencies must report on barriers to price transparency, develop a Health Quality Roadmap aligning quality measures across Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and military and veterans' health systems, and expand researcher access to de-identified claims data. It also directs the Treasury Department to ease rules on health savings accounts, expand eligible medical expenses, and increase flexible spending account carryover limits, and directs a report on implementing prior principles addressing surprise medical billing.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13876
Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Iran
·Donald Trump·84 FR 30573
Acting under the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957 regarding Iran, this order blocks all U.S. property and interests of Iran's Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader's Office, and authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to designate other officials tied to the Supreme Leader for the same sanctions. It authorizes Treasury to penalize foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct significant transactions for sanctioned persons by restricting their U.S. correspondent accounts. It bans donations and contributions to or from blocked persons, and suspends U.S. entry, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, for anyone meeting the order's designation criteria, treating them as covered by a 2011 proclamation on sanctions-related travel bans. It prohibits transactions or conspiracies that evade these measures, waives advance notice requirements for blocked designations, directs agencies to implement the order, and states the measures respond to Iranian government actions occurring after the 1981 Algiers Accords.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13875
Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees
·Donald Trump·84 FR 28711
Directs federal agencies to review their advisory committees created under the Federal Advisory Committee Act and, by September 30, 2019, terminate at least one-third of those established under section 9(a)(2) whose objectives are met, work is obsolete, functions have shifted elsewhere, or costs outweigh benefits. Agencies with fewer than three such committees are exempt, and agencies may request waivers from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Caps the government-wide total of eligible advisory committees at 350, limiting creation of new ones unless a waiver is granted. Requires agency heads to submit recommendations and termination plans to the Director by August 1, 2019, and requires the General Services Administration Administrator to submit similar information for presidential advisory committees. Directs the Director to recommend committee terminations to the President by September 1, 2019, and to include a termination plan in the fiscal year 2021 budget. Exempts merit review panels providing scientific safety or efficacy expertise, such as those at the National Institutes of Health, and does not apply to independent regulatory agencies.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13874
Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products
·Donald Trump·84 FR 27899
Directs federal agencies to modernize regulation of agricultural biotechnology products, defined as plants, animals, or their products developed through genetic engineering, excluding those made for pharmaceutical or industrial purposes. Sets policy that regulation be science-based, proportionate to risk, transparent, and consistent across similar products. Within 180 days, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs must identify regulations to streamline and use existing authority to exempt low-risk products from undue oversight. The three agencies must also design a web-based platform for developers to get coordinated regulatory guidance. Agencies must review rules affecting genome-edited specialty crops and report progress every 90 days for two years. The Secretary of Agriculture must develop a domestic consumer-engagement plan within 180 days, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of State must develop international outreach and trade strategies within 120 days to build acceptance and remove trade barriers for these products.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13873
Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain
·Donald Trump·84 FR 22689
Declares a national emergency over threats to information and communications technology and services supply chains posed by foreign adversaries. Prohibits transactions—such as acquiring, importing, transferring, installing, or using such technology or services—that involve property in which a foreign country or national has an interest, if the Secretary of Commerce determines the technology is designed or supplied by persons controlled by a foreign adversary and poses undue security risks. Lets the Secretary negotiate mitigation measures or license otherwise-prohibited transactions. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with numerous other agency heads, to issue implementing rules within 150 days. Requires the Director of National Intelligence to produce an initial threat assessment within 40 days and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security to assess vulnerable technologies within 80 days and annually thereafter, and the Secretary of Commerce to report annually, starting within one year, on whether actions taken remain necessary. Applies to any person or property subject to U.S. jurisdiction.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13872
Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
·Donald Trump·84 FR 22321
Establishes the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders within the Department of Commerce, and creates a companion White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, a federal interagency working group. Both bodies are co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Transportation and are directed to advise on broadening access by Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) individuals, communities, and businesses to economic resources, including federal procurement, entrepreneurship support, workforce diversity efforts, and trade opportunities, and to compile related research and data. The Commission's members are appointed by the President and it terminates two years after the order unless renewed. The Initiative includes senior representatives from numerous federal departments, agencies, and White House offices. The order supersedes a section of Executive Order 13811 and all of Executive Order 13515, defines the terms 'Asian American' and 'Pacific Islander,' and states it creates no enforceable legal rights. Implementation is subject to existing law and available appropriations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13871
Imposing Sanctions With Respect to the Iron, Steel, Aluminum, and Copper Sectors of Iran
·Donald Trump·84 FR 20761
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and other authorities, and building on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957, this order blocks the U.S. property and interests of anyone the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines operates in Iran's iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sectors, or engages in significant transactions involving goods, services, or products tied to those sectors. It authorizes the Treasury Secretary to restrict foreign financial institutions from accessing U.S. correspondent accounts if they knowingly facilitate such transactions. It bars charitable donations to blocked persons, prohibits contributions or services to or from them, and suspends U.S. entry for individuals meeting the order's criteria, treating them under a prior 2011 proclamation on sanctions-related travel bans. It prohibits evasion or conspiracy to violate its terms, exempts official U.S. government and United Nations business, defines key terms likeRead the full summaryShow less
E.O.13870
America's Cybersecurity Workforce
·Donald Trump·84 FR 20523
Directs several federal agencies to strengthen the government's cybersecurity workforce and support development of cybersecurity skills nationally. The Secretary of Homeland Security, with the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management, must establish a rotational assignment program for federal cybersecurity employees and report on it within 90 days. The General Services Administration must incorporate a standard skills framework into IT contracts, and the Office of Personnel Management must identify aptitude assessments for reskilling employees. Agencies must create or expand awards recognizing cybersecurity achievement, and the Department of Homeland Security must plan an annual President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition for federal and military personnel, with cash awards of at least $25,000, to begin by December 31, 2019. The Secretaries of Commerce and Homeland Security must implement recommendations from an earlier workforce report, and the Secretary of Education must create an annual award recognizing K-12 educators who teach cybersecurity. It also directs a report identifying cybersecurity workforce skills gaps in critical infrastructure sectors.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13869
Transferring Responsibility for Background Investigations to the Department of Defense
·Donald Trump·84 FR 18125
Directs the transfer of primary responsibility for federal background investigations from the Office of Personnel Management to the Department of Defense, amending Executive Order 13467. It renames the Defense Security Service as the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), which becomes the main entity conducting investigations for security clearances, suitability, fitness, and credentialing government-wide. The Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management must execute a transfer agreement by June 24, 2019, covering personnel, funding, technology, and facilities, with the transition to be completed by September 30, 2019. It also establishes a Personnel Vetting Transformation Office within Defense, requires periodic progress reports to the President, amends Executive Order 12171 to exclude the DCSA from certain labor-management provisions for national security reasons, updates references to the former Defense Security Service and National Background Investigations Bureau across prior presidential documents, and directs a review of vetting-related laws and policies due by July 24, 2019.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13868
Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth
·Donald Trump·84 FR 15495
Directs federal agencies to promote energy infrastructure development by streamlining permitting and reducing regulatory uncertainty. Instructs the Environmental Protection Agency to review and update guidance and regulations under Clean Water Act Section 401 water quality certifications, with agencies required to align their own rules accordingly on set timelines. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to update safety rules for liquefied natural gas facilities and propose allowing LNG transport by rail tank car. Directs the Secretary of Labor to review retirement plan investment trends in the energy sector and reassess proxy-voting fiduciary guidance. Instructs the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce to create a master agreement for renewing energy infrastructure rights-of-way and to begin renewal processes for expired ones within a year. Calls for reports, within set deadlines, on barriers to a national energy market, intergovernmental assistance for energy infrastructure, and economic growth opportunities in the Appalachian region. States it does not alter existing agency legal authority or create enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13867
Issuance of Permits With Respect to Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings at the International Boundaries of the United States
·Donald Trump·84 FR 15491
Revises the process for approving Presidential permits for cross-border infrastructure, such as pipelines, conveyor belts, water and sewage facilities, bridges, and land border crossings for vehicles and rail. Designates the Secretary of State to receive applications for these permits and directs the Secretary to adopt procedures so that the review process, including requests for additional information and consultation with other agency heads and with state, tribal, local, or foreign officials, can be completed within 60 days. Agencies asked for input must respond within 30 days unless the President specifies otherwise. The Secretary of State must advise the President on whether a permit would serve U.S. foreign policy interests, but the final decision to issue, deny, or amend any permit rests solely with the President. Requires the State Department to update its regulations to match this order by May 29, 2020. Revokes Executive Orders 13337 and 11423, while permits already issued under those orders remain valid until changed by proper authority.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13866
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·Donald Trump·84 FR 12853
Sets updated pay rates for federal employees and officials under various statutory pay systems, based on schedules attached to the order. This covers the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, pay for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services pay, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judges' pay. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Uniformed services pay rates take effect January 1, 2019, while the other schedules take effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13856 of December 28, 2018, as of these effective dates.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13865
Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses
·Donald Trump·84 FR 12041