E.O.14006
Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7483
E.O.14005
Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7475
Sets a policy of maximizing federal purchases of goods, products, materials, and services produced in the United States, and directs agencies to review and consider revising actions inconsistent with that policy. Creates a Made in America Office within the Office of Management and Budget, headed by a Made in America Director, to centralize review of agency waivers from Buy American laws, including publishing waiver-submission requirements and review deadlines. Requires agencies to assess whether foreign cost advantages stem from dumped or subsidized materials before granting waivers, and directs the General Services Administration to build a public website tracking proposed and granted waivers. Directs agencies to use the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership for supplier scouting, and instructs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to consider revising domestic-content rules and thresholds. Requires agencies to submit initial and biannual reports on compliance with Made in America laws. Revokes Executive Orders 13788, 13975, and part of 13858, and supersedes portions of Executive Orders 10582 and 13881 that conflict with this order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14004
Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in Uniform
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7471
Sets a policy that transgender individuals who meet military standards may serve openly in the Armed Forces, including the Coast Guard, without discrimination based on gender identity. Revokes the March 2018 presidential memorandum on military service by transgender individuals and confirms the earlier August 2017 memorandum remains revoked. Directs the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security for the Coast Guard, to align department policies with this order, establish a process allowing service members to transition gender while serving, and immediately stop involuntary separations, discharges, or denial of reenlistment based on gender identity. Requires review of records of those previously separated on that basis, guidance for correcting military records, and instructions to record-correction boards, including offering affected individuals a chance to rejoin if they meet current entry standards. Requires both Secretaries to report to the President within 60 days on implementation progress, and states the order does not alter existing legal authorities or create enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14003
Protecting the Federal Workforce
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7231
Sets a policy of protecting and strengthening the career federal workforce and encouraging union organizing and collective bargaining. Revokes Executive Order 13957, which had created a Schedule F excepted service category, and directs agency heads to immediately suspend or rescind related actions, with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) told to stop processing Schedule F conversions. Also revokes Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839, along with a related 2019 presidential memorandum, all concerning federal labor relations and union time; disbands the Interagency Labor Relations Working Group; and directs affected agencies to review and unwind actions taken under those revoked orders. Requires agencies covered by federal labor-management law to negotiate over certain subjects listed in 5 U.S.C. 7106(b)(1). Directs the OPM Director to report to the President with recommendations for moving federal employees toward a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Includes standard severability and implementation clauses.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14002
Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7229
Directs all federal executive departments and agencies to promptly identify actions they can take under their existing legal authority to address the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including improved use of data and better coordination among federally funded programs. Agencies are told to prioritize actions that provide the greatest relief to individuals, families, and small businesses, as well as to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, doing so consistent with applicable law. Independent agencies are encouraged, though not required, to comply. The order notes that the pandemic has caused business closures, job losses, food and housing insecurity, and revenue shortfalls for state and local governments, with particularly severe effects on communities of color. It states that it does not alter existing legal authorities or Office of Management and Budget functions, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14001
A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7219
Directs federal agencies to secure supply chains for combating COVID-19. The Secretaries of State, Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security must immediately review the availability of critical pandemic supplies, including protective equipment, tests, and vaccine materials, assess industry capacity, and use available legal authorities, including the Defense Production Act, to fill shortfalls. Agencies must report on stockpile status and supply gaps to the President through the COVID-19 Response Coordinator. The order also directs reviews of pricing practices, including possible hoarding and price-gouging rules under Executive Order 13910, and use of reasonable pricing clauses in federal contracts. Within 180 days, the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security must submit a strategy for building long-term domestic manufacturing capacity for future pandemic supplies, addressing emergency distribution, foreign supply chain reliance, stockpile roles, and public-private partnerships. It also directs steps to improve Tribal governments' and Indian health providers' access to the Strategic National Stockpile.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.14000
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7215
Directs federal agencies to support the safe reopening and continued operation of schools, child care providers, Head Start programs, and colleges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instructs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to issue evidence-based guidance on reopening schools and colleges for in-person learning, create a Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse, provide technical assistance, and coordinate data collection on the pandemic's impact on students, disaggregated by demographics. Directs the Department of Education's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to report on COVID-19's disparate impact on students, including at minority-serving institutions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to help collect data, ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 supplies to schools and child care providers, support contact tracing, and provide guidance to child care and Head Start programs. Requires both Secretaries to jointly report strategies addressing educational disparities to White House officials. Encourages the Federal Communications Commission to expand broadband access for remote learners.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13999
Protecting Worker Health and Safety
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7211
Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to issue revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic within two weeks, and to decide whether emergency temporary standards, including on mask-wearing, are needed, issuing them by March 15, 2021 if so. Orders a review of OSHA's COVID-19 enforcement efforts, a national enforcement program targeting violations posing the greatest risk or involving retaliation, and a multilingual outreach campaign with labor unions and community groups to inform workers of their rights. Directs coordination with states running their own occupational safety plans and, in states without such plans, consultation to protect public sector workers. Instructs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Energy to explore protections for workers not covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and directs consideration of emergency standards for coal and metal or non-metal mine workers.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13998
Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7205
Directs the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Homeland Security, along with other relevant agency heads, to require mask-wearing consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines in airports, on commercial aircraft, trains, ferries, intercity buses, and other public transportation, while allowing documented exceptions and preserving stricter state or local rules. It directs those agencies to recommend further domestic public health measures and to help states, localities, tribes, and territories encourage mask use and distancing. For international travel, it establishes a policy of requiring negative COVID-19 tests and compliance with CDC guidance before entry, and directs the Secretaries of State, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Homeland Security to assess testing requirements for air travelers, negotiate with Canada and Mexico on land border health measures, develop plans for sea port measures, and study linking vaccination status to international vaccination certificates. Agencies must report progress to the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator within set deadlines.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13997
Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7201
Directs several federal agencies to expand efforts against COVID-19. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the National Institutes of Health, must develop plans to support clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments, study the disease's long-term effects, and ensure underrepresented populations are included in research. The Secretaries of Defense, HHS, and Veterans Affairs, coordinated by the COVID-19 Response Coordinator, are directed to provide surge assistance to nursing homes and other care facilities, review Federal facilities' capacity, and issue recommendations for expanding the healthcare workforce. The same agencies must set targets for producing and distributing COVID-19 treatments and prioritize scalable therapeutics. HHS is further directed to identify barriers to treatment access, support state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities in overcoming them, evaluate the COVID-19 Uninsured Program, and review Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance coverage to promote access to COVID-19 treatment and care. The order states it does not alter existing agency legal authority and creates no enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13996
Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7197
Establishes a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board, chaired by the Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response, to coordinate federal testing, screening, and surveillance efforts, recommend how to prioritize assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, address testing gaps in high-risk settings and populations, and propose reforms to improve pandemic response. Directs the Treasury, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Labor secretaries to work toward providing free COVID-19 testing for people lacking comprehensive insurance and clarifying insurers' coverage obligations. Directs HHS, Education, and Homeland Security officials to expand testing access, including in schools. Directs HHS and Labor to consult with state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders on workforce challenges, and directs HHS to provide technical support and submit a plan on deploying public health personnel and building a sustainable workforce. Directs several agencies to jointly develop a plan for a U.S. Public Health Job Corps, modeled on FEMA Corps, to handle contact tracing, vaccination outreach, and testing training. States the order does not create enforceable legal rights and is subject to available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13995
Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7193
Establishes a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force within the Department of Health and Human Services to address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on communities of color and other underserved populations. The task force, chaired by a designee of the HHS Secretary and including federal and outside members appointed by the President, is directed to recommend how agencies and state, local, tribal, and territorial officials should allocate pandemic resources and relief funds equitably, improve culturally aligned outreach, and fix data shortfalls in tracking COVID-19's effects by race and other factors. It must submit a final report on health inequities and terminates within 30 days of completing its work or after two years, whichever comes first. The order also directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Labor, HHS, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and the EPA Administrator, among others, to assess and adjust pandemic response plans for equity, strengthen anti-discrimination enforcement in COVID-19 care, and partner with local governments on assistance such as food, housing, and income support.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13994
Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7189
Directs federal agencies to gather, share, and publish data related to COVID-19 and future high-consequence public health threats, coordinating with the Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President, while protecting confidentiality, privacy, law enforcement, and national security. Requires numerous agency heads, including the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, along with the Directors of National Intelligence, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Science Foundation, to designate senior officials to work on pandemic-related data issues. Directs the Office of Management and Budget to review federal open-data practices and issue guidance on de-identifying and publishing COVID-19 data. Instructs the Office of Personnel Management to review hiring practices for data-related roles. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review public health data systems and report findings. Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a plan for advancing public health data innovation. States that it does not authorize disclosure of privileged, law-enforcement, national-security, or legally protected information.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13993
Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7051
Revokes Executive Order 13768 of January 25, 2017, which had directed enhanced immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States. Directs the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and other relevant agency heads to review any agency actions taken under the revoked order and to issue revised guidance as appropriate to align enforcement of civil immigration laws with the administration's stated priorities of protecting national and border security, addressing humanitarian challenges at the southern border, ensuring public health and safety, and upholding due process. The order states it does not alter existing legal authorities of agencies, does not affect the budgetary or legislative functions of the Office of Management and Budget, and creates no enforceable legal rights for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13992
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7049
Revokes six prior executive orders concerning federal regulation: Executive Order 13771 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs), Executive Order 13777 (Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda), Executive Order 13875 (Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees), Executive Order 13891 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents), Executive Order 13892 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication), and Executive Order 13893 (Increasing Government Accountability for Administrative Actions by Reinvigorating Administrative PAYGO). Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and agency heads to promptly rescind any rules, guidelines, or policies implementing those orders, consistent with applicable law, or to provide exemptions where rescission cannot happen immediately. Also abolishes any personnel positions, committees, or task forces created under the revoked orders, including regulatory reform officer positions and task forces set up under Executive Order 13777. States it does not alter existing agency legal authority or the Director's budgetary functions, and creates no enforceable rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13991
Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7045
Directs heads of executive departments and agencies to require mask-wearing, physical distancing, and other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public health measures for on-duty or on-site federal employees, on-site federal contractors, and all persons in federal buildings and on federal lands, with limited exceptions requiring documented alternative safeguards. Agencies must report progress within 7 days to a newly created COVID-19 Response Coordinator. Establishes the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, co-chaired by the Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration, and COVID-19 Response Coordinator, to issue guidance on testing, distancing, protective equipment, telework, and vaccine distribution for the federal workforce. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC, to engage state, local, and community leaders on mask-wearing and to develop a federal workforce testing plan. Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to assess research funding for mask and distancing best practices. Encourages, but does not require, similar measures in the legislative and judicial branches and at independent agencies.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13990
Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7037
Directs federal agencies to review regulations, orders, and guidance issued between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021 that conflict with policies on public health, the environment, and climate change, and to consider suspending, revising, or rescinding them, with specific deadlines for rules on methane emissions, fuel economy, appliance efficiency, and air pollution. Orders the Secretary of the Interior to review boundary changes made to several national monuments and to place a moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while reinstating prior withdrawals of Arctic and Bering Sea waters from drilling. Revokes the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Establishes an Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases to publish interim and final estimates of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide costs on set timelines. Revokes several prior executive orders and presidential memoranda related to infrastructure permitting, energy policy, and water supply, and directs rescission or revision of related guidance documents.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13989
Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7029
Requires every incoming executive branch appointee, starting January 20, 2021, to sign an ethics pledge as a condition of employment. The pledge bars accepting gifts from registered lobbyists, restricts appointees for two years from working on matters involving their former employers or clients, imposes extra limits on former lobbyists and registrants under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, extends post-employment communication restrictions for senior officials, bans lobbying by former appointees for a set period after leaving government, prohibits golden-parachute payments tied to taking a government job, and requires hiring decisions based on qualifications. The order defines key terms, allows the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to grant written waivers in the public interest, directs agency heads and the Office of Government Ethics to establish implementing rules, reporting, and enforcement procedures, and authorizes the Attorney General to pursue investigations, injunctions, or other civil remedies against violators.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13988
Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7023
Sets a policy of preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, citing the Supreme Court's Bostock v. Clayton County decision interpreting Title VII's sex-discrimination ban to cover such discrimination, and noting this reasoning extends to other sex-discrimination laws including Title IX, the Fair Housing Act, and a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Directs the head of each federal agency, in consultation with the Attorney General as appropriate, to review existing orders, regulations, guidance, policies, and programs administered under sex-discrimination statutes to identify any that are inconsistent with this policy, and to consider revising, suspending, rescinding, or issuing new agency actions as needed. Agencies must also address overlapping forms of discrimination, such as those based on race or disability. Within 100 days, each agency head must develop a plan to carry out identified actions. The order applies to federal agencies generally, excluding independent regulatory agencies, and does not create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13987
Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 7019