E.O.13154
Establishing the Kosovo Campaign Medal
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 26479
E.O.13153
Actions To Improve Low-Performing Schools
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 26475
Directs the Secretary of Education to work with state and local educational agencies to develop a strategy for helping low-performing schools, including sharing research on best practices, connecting schools with resources from various Department of Education programs, improving teacher recruitment and professional development, building partnerships with technical assistance providers, involving parents, exploring tutoring programs, and coordinating with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on BIA-funded schools. Instructs the Secretary to redirect department resources toward this effort, publish an annual public School Improvement Report starting in 2000 tracking trends and best practices, and strengthen monitoring of compliance with Elementary and Secondary Education Act requirements, particularly sections 1116 and 1117. Calls for consultation with agencies, state and local officials, educators, and community groups as appropriate. States that the order only affects internal executive branch management and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13152
Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in Federal Government
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 26115
Amends Executive Order 11478 to add "status as a parent" as a prohibited basis for discrimination in federal employment, alongside existing categories such as sexual orientation. Defines "status as a parent" to cover biological, adoptive, foster, and stepparents, legal guardians of minors or dependents with disabilities, those acting in loco parentis, and those actively seeking custody or adoption. Authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to issue guidance implementing the nondiscrimination provisions covering sexual orientation and parental status. Also updates a section on agency responsibilities, renumbers later sections of the original order, and adds a new section stating that the order creates no legally enforceable rights or benefits against the United States or its representatives. Applies to federal government employment practices generally.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13151
Global Disaster Information Network
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 25619
Establishes a Global Disaster Information Network to help the federal government use information technology to coordinate the collection and sharing of disaster-related data, both to assist domestic response agencies and state governments and, where appropriate, to help foreign governments prepare for and respond to disasters. Creates an Interagency Coordinating Committee, co-chaired by representatives of the Office of the Vice President, the Department of Commerce (through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and the Department of State, with members from thirteen listed federal departments and agencies including Defense, State, Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Also establishes a Committee Support Office, funded and administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to develop strategies and projects for the network and support the Committee's work. Exempts intelligence activities and national security-related work of the Defense and Energy departments. States it imposes no requirements on tribal governments and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13150
Federal Workforce Transportation
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 24613
Directs federal agencies to establish, by October 1, 2000, a transportation fringe benefit program letting qualified federal employees exclude commuting costs for mass transit and vanpools from taxable wages, up to the legal maximum, and encourages agencies to offer additional nonmonetary incentives for such commuting. Requires federal agencies within the National Capital Region (Washington, D.C., and nearby Maryland and Virginia counties) to provide qualified employees transit passes covering approximately their commuting costs, also by October 1, 2000. Directs the Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Energy to run a three-year pilot transit pass program for their employees, to be evaluated before considering wider adoption. Requires agencies to develop implementation plans in consultation with several federal offices, absorb costs within existing budget requests, and allows agencies with more generous existing benefits to keep them. States that it creates no legally enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13149
Greening the Government Through Federal Fleet and Transportation Efficiency
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 24607
Directs federal agencies operating 20 or more motor vehicles in the United States to cut their fleets' annual petroleum consumption by at least 20 percent by the end of fiscal year 2005, compared with 1999 levels, and to increase average fuel economy of acquired passenger cars and light trucks by 1 mile per gallon by 2002 and 3 mpg by 2005. Requires agencies to use alternative fuels for most fuel needs of alternative fuel vehicles by 2005 and to designate a senior official within 90 days to oversee compliance and submit a strategy to the Department of Energy within 180 days. Assigns coordinating roles to the Office of Management and Budget, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and General Services Administration for guidance, budget review, and vehicle acquisition support. Exempts military tactical, law enforcement, and emergency vehicles, and allows OMB to modify compliance requirements. Requires environmentally preferable vehicle products where feasible, and revokes Executive Order 13031. Contains further administrative and reporting provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13148
Greening the Government Through Leadership in Environmental Management
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 24595
Directs federal agencies to integrate environmental management into their operations, requiring environmental management systems, compliance audit programs, and pollution prevention strategies. Sets numeric targets: a 10 percent annual (40 percent by December 31, 2006) reduction in toxic chemical releases and off-site transfers, a 50 percent reduction by 2006 in use of selected toxic chemicals or hazardous waste generation, and phase-out of Class I ozone-depleting substances by December 31, 2010. Requires agencies to develop environmental strategies within 12 months, facility-level plans by March 2002, and annual progress reports to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, beginning with calendar year 2000. Establishes an Interagency Environmental Leadership Workgroup chaired by the EPA, an environmental leadership awards program, and requirements for training, compliance audits, landscaping practices, and procurement policies limiting toxic chemical use. Allows national security exemptions and compliance modifications by the Office of Management and Budget. Revokes several prior executive orders and provisions, including Executive Orders 12843, 12856, and 12969, and part of Executive Order 12088. Applies to federal agencies and facilities nationwide and in U.S. territories.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13147
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 13233
Establishes the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy within the Department of Health and Human Services, made up of up to 15 members appointed by the President, with a Chair chosen by the President and an Executive Director appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs the Commission to report to the President, through the Secretary, on legislative and administrative recommendations covering education and training of practitioners, coordinated research, public and professional access to reliable information, and appropriate delivery of complementary and alternative medicine. Requires federal agencies to assist the Commission upon request, sets member compensation and travel reimbursement under existing federal schedules, and directs the Department to fund and staff the Commission's operations. The Secretary is to carry out Federal Advisory Committee Act functions for the Commission, except reporting to Congress. The Commission terminates two years from the order's date unless the President extends it.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13146
President's Council on the Future of Princeville, North Carolina
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 11201
Establishes the President's Council on the Future of Princeville, North Carolina, an interagency body tasked with recommending federal and legislative actions to help the city recover from repeated flood damage, including that caused by Hurricane Floyd. The Council includes the Secretaries of Defense, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation, along with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, the Army Corps of Engineers Commander, the Small Business Administration Administrator, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, and several White House policy advisors, chaired by the Office of Management and Budget Director. It directs the Council to consider Princeville's historic significance as the first U.S. city founded by former slaves, consult state and local governments and community groups, and submit recommendations to the President, including draft legislation for funding or authority to rebuild and protect the city from future flooding. Agencies must cooperate with the Council when requested. The order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13145
To Prohibit Discrimination in Federal Employment Based on Genetic Information
·William J. Clinton·65 FR 6877
Establishes a federal policy prohibiting discrimination in federal employment based on protected genetic information, including information about genetic tests, family members' genetic tests, or family medical history, as well as information about an employee's use of genetic services. It bars federal agencies from firing, refusing to hire, or otherwise disadvantaging employees or applicants based on such information, from requesting or collecting it except in limited circumstances (such as after a conditional job offer, workplace toxic-substance monitoring with employee consent, or supervised health research), and from disclosing it outside narrow exceptions. Genetic information must be kept separate from general personnel files as confidential medical records. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission coordinates government-wide compliance, and each agency head must designate a senior official to implement the policy. The order applies to employees, applicants, and former employees covered by Title VII's federal-sector provisions, and states it creates no legally enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13144
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 72237
Sets adjusted rates of basic pay and salaries for various federal pay systems, effective either January 1, 2000 or the first pay period beginning on or after that date. Covers the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal justices and judges, uniformed services members and cadets or midshipmen, administrative law judges, and locality-based comparability payments. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement the locality-based payments and publish notice in the Federal Register. Specific pay rates are set out in schedules attached to the order. Supersedes sections 1 through 7 of Executive Order 13106 of December 7, 1998.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13143
Amending Executive Order 10173, as Amended, Prescribing Regulations Relating to the Safeguarding of Vessels, Harbors, Ports, and Waterfront Facilities of the United States
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 68273
Amends Executive Order 10173, which sets regulations for safeguarding vessels, harbors, ports, and waterfront facilities of the United States. Revises the regulatory definition of "waterfront facility" to cover piers, wharves, docks, and similar structures where vessels may be secured, as well as naval yards, stations, and installations including ranges, along with the adjacent land and water areas, and buildings, equipment, and materials located on or near them. The change updates Section 6.01-4 of Part 6 of Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13142
Amendment To Executive Order 12958-Classified National Security Information
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 66089
Amends Executive Order 12958 on classified national security information. Extends the deadline for automatic declassification of historically valuable records over 25 years old from five years to six and a half years from the original order's date, and adds an exception allowing an eight-year window for records involving multiple agencies or intelligence sources and methods, subject to review by the Information Security Oversight Office. It also revises how that office operates: the Archivist of the United States, in consultation with the President's national security adviser, oversees the office and its director, who is appointed by the Archivist subject to presidential approval. The office is given authority to issue binding directives on classification standards, conduct on-site agency reviews, and require agency cooperation, with a process for agencies to seek denial of access to certain classified information through the national security adviser within 60 days.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13141
Environmental Review of Trade Agreements
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 63169
Directs the United States Trade Representative and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality to oversee environmental reviews of certain trade agreements. Establishes a policy of assessing environmental impacts when developing trade negotiating objectives. Requires environmental reviews for comprehensive multilateral trade rounds, bilateral or plurilateral free trade agreements, and major new trade liberalization agreements in natural resource sectors, but excludes agreements tied to enforcement or dispute resolution actions. Leaves the Trade Representative, through the interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee, to decide whether other agreements warrant review based on likely environmental significance. Specifies that reviews must be written, initiated with a Federal Register notice seeking public comment, conducted early enough to inform negotiating positions without delaying proposals, and released in draft and final form for public access. Focuses reviews mainly on domestic impacts, allowing consideration of global or transboundary effects where appropriate. Directs federal agencies to provide analytical and financial support to the Trade Representative when requested, subject to available funds. States that the order creates no enforceable legal rights and is meant only to guide internal executive branch management.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13140
1999 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 55115
Amends the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which implements the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It removes the requirement that military judges be on active duty, allows child witnesses in abuse or domestic violence cases to testify via closed-circuit television or from outside the courtroom under specified conditions, and lets an accused voluntarily leave the courtroom to avoid such remote testimony. It creates a psychotherapist-patient privilege for court-martial proceedings, subject to listed exceptions such as danger to others or mandatory reporting duties. It expands evidence allowed in sentencing to include hate-crime motivation and broader victim-impact factors, adds being under 15 years old as an aggravating factor in murder cases eligible for the death penalty, removes the punishment of loss of numbers/seniority, and adds a new offense of reckless endangerment under Article 134 with a maximum punishment of a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of pay, and one year of confinement. The changes take effect November 1, 1999, with rules on which cases and offenses they apply to, and they do not invalidate proceedings already begun.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13139
Improving Health Protection of Military Personnel Participating in Particular Military Operations
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 54175
Sets policy and procedures for administering investigational drugs to U.S. military personnel to protect against chemical, biological, or radiological weapons and diseases encountered during military operations. Requires the Secretary of Defense to gather intelligence on health threats and work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services on countermeasures, generally requiring informed consent before giving unapproved products, unless the President grants a waiver under a specific federal law provision after a documented request from the Secretary, review by the Food and Drug Administration, and a joint advisory opinion from White House national security and science advisors. It sets requirements for monitoring, congressional notification, public disclosure, waiver expiration within a year, and renewal procedures, and directs the Department of Defense to provide ongoing training and health risk communication to military personnel, including specific training before any waiver-based drug use. The order applies only to waivers of informed consent under this legal authority and creates no enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13138
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 53879
Continues sixteen federal advisory committees—covering areas such as White House preservation, occupational safety, science and technology, the arts and humanities, physical fitness, telecommunications security, and trade—through September 30, 2001, and assigns the President's oversight duties under the Federal Advisory Committee Act for these committees to the head of each committee's designated agency. Revokes several earlier executive orders that created advisory bodies whose work was complete, including committees on health care quality, digital television broadcasting, critical infrastructure protection, capital budgeting, race relations, sustainable development, and Gulf War veterans' illnesses. Also amends other executive orders: adding the Department of Energy to the President's Export Council, adding the Treasury Department and Office of National Drug Control Policy to a Coast Guard interagency task force, revising the mandate and funding provisions of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and changing membership term rules for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Takes effect September 30, 1999.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13137
Amendment to Executive Order 12975, as Amended, National Bioethics Advisory Commission
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 50733
Amends Executive Order 12975 to revise the structure and expertise requirements for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, housed within the Department of Health and Human Services. It sets the commission's membership at no more than 18 nongovernment members appointed by the President, requiring at least one member from each of five expertise categories (philosophy/theology, social/behavioral science, law, medicine/allied health professions, and biological research), plus at least three general public members, with attention to balance between scientists and non-scientists and to geographic, ethnic, and gender representation. Members serve two-year terms, may continue until a successor is named, and the President designates the Chairperson. The order also renumbers several sections of the original order and extends the commission's expiration date from October 3, 1999 to October 3, 2001.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13136
Amendment to Executive Order 13090, President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 48931
Amends Executive Order 13090, which established the President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History, by extending the Commission's termination date from March 1, 1999, to December 31, 2000. The change is intended to give the Commission additional time to develop support systems and test the viability of recommendations included in its earlier report to the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13135
Amendment to Executive Order 12216, President's Committee on the International Labor Organization
·William J. Clinton·64 FR 47339