E.O.13984
Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber- Enabled Activities
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6837
E.O.13983
Revocation of Executive Order 13770
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6835
Revokes Executive Order 13770 of January 28, 2017, titled "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees," effective at noon on January 20, 2021. Current and former executive branch employees who had been bound by the ethics commitments set out in that earlier order are no longer subject to them after that time. The order states it does not affect existing legal authority of federal agencies or their heads, nor the budgetary, administrative, or legislative functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and that it creates no enforceable rights or benefits for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13982
Care of Veterans With Service in Uzbekistan
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6833
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to consider designating veterans who served on active duty in Uzbekistan between October 1, 2001, and December 31, 2005, as having served in a theater of combat operations under federal law, which affects eligibility for certain veterans' benefits. Also directs the Secretary of Defense, within 365 days, to conduct a study on toxic exposure among service members deployed to the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan during that period, including identifying toxic substances and locations, assessing health consequences through an epidemiological study, and evaluating any causal link between the exposures and health effects. The Secretary of Defense must report findings to the President through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The order states it does not create enforceable legal rights and is to be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13981
Protecting the United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6821
Directs federal agencies to review their authority to stop procuring, funding, or renewing contracts for 'covered' unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)—drones manufactured or partly manufactured, or reliant on software, components, or data storage tied to adversary countries such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran—and to report findings to the Office of Management and Budget. Requires agencies to report within 60 days on foreign-linked UAS they currently own or operate, with the Director of National Intelligence submitting a broader risk assessment to the President within 180 days, including possible removal of such drones from federal service. Instructs the Federal Aviation Administration to propose regulations within 270 days restricting UAS use over critical infrastructure or sensitive sites, under existing 2016 aviation law. Directs agencies and the Office of Management and Budget to prioritize funding for replacing covered UAS in future budgets. Defines key terms including 'adversary country,' 'covered UAS,' and 'critical electronic component.'Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13980
Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6817
Sets federal policy that agencies should clearly state which regulatory violations carry criminal penalties and specify the required mental state (mens rea) for each offense, favoring administrative or civil enforcement over criminal prosecution for strict liability violations. Directs agencies to include, in proposed and final rules published after the order, a statement on whether violations may trigger criminal penalties, and to specify a mens rea requirement or identify an offense as strict liability, citing authorizing statutes. Requires agencies proposing strict liability criminal offenses not specified in statute to justify the standard to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs before publication. Within 45 days, agencies must publish guidance, developed with the Department of Justice, describing how they will handle potential regulatory criminal offenses administratively rather than referring them for prosecution, considering factors like harm, gain to the offender, expertise, and knowledge of the rule. Excludes matters involving national security, ongoing criminal investigations, counterfeit or misbranded goods, and certain other categories from its requirements.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13979
Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6813
Directs federal agency heads, to the extent permitted by law, to require that rules issued under the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment process (section 553) be signed only by presidentially appointed or non-career senior officials, and that only such officials may initiate rulemakings or approve an agency's regulatory agenda. Allows exceptions where an agency head determines compliance would harm public safety or security, subject to notifying and publishing reasons through the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Within 180 days, agencies must review and revise delegations of rulemaking authority and amend related regulations to comply. Within 90 days, agencies must review significant rules issued over the past 12 years to determine whether they were issued by senior appointees, and within 120 days report findings to the President through the Administrator. Defines key terms including "agency," "senior appointee," "significant rule," and "rule," explicitly including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and excluding the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Directs the Administrator to issue implementation guidance and monitor compliance.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13978
Building the National Garden of American Heroes
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6809
Amends Executive Order 13934 to revise plans for the National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes, to identify a site and proceed with construction as authority allows, and to provide funding for its establishment and maintenance. Replaces the list of individuals to be honored with statues with an expanded roster of several hundred named historical figures. Revises the definition of "historically significant American." Directs the chairpersons of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities to aim to spend one-twelfth of their discretionary funds commissioning statues for the garden. Requires the Task Force to publish an annual public report on progress until the garden is complete and all listed statues are in place, including steps taken and statues commissioned or placed.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13977
Protecting Law Enforcement Officers, Judges, Prosecutors, and Their Families
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6803
Directs federal agencies to remove obstacles preventing current or retired federal law enforcement officers from carrying concealed firearms under the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, and requires agency heads to report to the President within 30 days on implementation and remaining barriers. Directs the Attorney General to propose, within 30 days, a regulation allowing federal prosecutors facing risk of harm to receive special deputation as Deputy U.S. Marshals, including firearm-carrying authority and required training. Directs the Attorney General to prioritize protection of federal judges and prosecutors, prioritize prosecution of threats or violence against these officials and their targeted family members, and assess whether to revise related federal regulations. Directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to review ways to limit public exposure of personal information about federal judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers, and directs agencies to allow use of post office box addresses where appropriate. Directs the Attorney General to draft proposed legislation within 30 days expanding firearm rights, information protections, penalties for threats against these officials and their families, and related funding and authority for relevant agencies.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13976
Establishing the Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6549
Establishes an interagency Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee, known as the Wildland Fire Subcabinet, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior and including the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, along with the Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Economic Council leaders. The Subcabinet, meeting quarterly, is directed to coordinate federal wildland fire policy, reduce duplication among existing fire-related councils and working groups, and improve cooperation with state, local, and tribal governments. Within 90 days it must recommend consolidating overlapping interagency working groups. Within 180 days it must publish a strategic plan covering fire suppression, hazardous fuels management, technology adoption, workforce policy, infrastructure coordination with utilities, and budget strategy. It must report annually to top White House policy offices on progress. The Department of Agriculture provides administrative support, and the order directs coordination with the existing Wildland Fire Leadership Council.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13975
Encouraging Buy American Policies for the United States Postal Service
·Donald Trump·86 FR 6547
Encourages the United States Postmaster General to consider aligning the Postal Service's own Buy American procurement preferences with government-wide Buy American rules. It notes that the Postal Service currently applies a 6 percent price preference for domestic products and requires that more than 50 percent of an item's component costs come from the United States for it to qualify as domestically manufactured. Within 90 days of the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council issuing any final rule discussed in Executive Order 13881, the Postmaster General is encouraged to consider amending the Postal Service's Supplying Principles and Practices to match federal rules on price differentials and on determining when materials count as foreign-made. The order states it does not affect existing legal authority of federal agencies or the Postal Service's officers and Board of Governors, must be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding, and does not create any enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13974
Amending Executive Order 13959Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies
·Donald Trump·86 FR 4875
Amends Executive Order 13959, which addressed securities investments financing Communist Chinese military companies. Extends the deadline for U.S. persons to divest from securities held in listed Communist Chinese military companies as of January 11, 2021, allowing divestment transactions until November 11, 2021, after which possession of such securities becomes prohibited. For companies designated later by the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of the Treasury, it allows divestment for 365 days from the designation date, with possession prohibited afterward. It also revises the definitions of which entities the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of the Treasury may publicly list as Communist Chinese military companies or their subsidiaries, and narrows the definition of a coveredRead the full summaryShow less
E.O.13973
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency
·Donald Trump·86 FR 3733
Sets an order of succession within the Environmental Protection Agency, listing seventeen officials—starting with the General Counsel and running through various assistant administrators, the Chief Financial Officer, and regional officials—who would act as Administrator if both the Administrator and Deputy Administrator die, resign, or otherwise become unable to serve. It specifies that anyone already serving in one of these listed positions in an acting capacity cannot become acting Administrator through this order, and that a listed official must otherwise be eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 to serve. The President retains discretion to depart from this order when naming an acting Administrator. It revokes the prior succession order, Executive Order 13763 of January 13, 2017, and states that it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13972
Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration
·Donald Trump·86 FR 3727
Sets policy to promote small modular and micro nuclear reactors for national defense and space exploration. Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 180 days, to establish a plan demonstrating a Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed micro-reactor at a domestic military installation, and to identify further military installation opportunities if successful. Requires the Secretary of Defense, with other agencies, to assess nuclear power for defense space needs, pilot a transportable micro-reactor, and study regulatory, personnel, and technical requirements. Directs the NASA Administrator, within 180 days, to define requirements for using nuclear energy systems in human and robotic space missions through 2040. Requires the Secretary of Energy to complete a HALEU (high-assay, low-enriched uranium) enrichment demonstration and plan its transition to private industry. Directs the Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Energy and the NASA Administrator to jointly develop a common technology roadmap through 2030, covering foreign capabilities, technology transfer, and related applications, to be submitted to the President before related budget proposals. Defines key terms such as small modular reactor, micro-reactor, and transportable micro-reactor.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13971
Addressing the Threat Posed by Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled by Chinese Companies
·Donald Trump·86 FR 1249
Acting under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and building on Executive Order 13873's declared national emergency over information and communications technology supply chains, the order finds that Chinese-developed connected software applications pose risks by collecting Americans' personal data. Beginning 45 days after signing, it prohibits transactions by persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction with those who develop or control eight named applications—Alipay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office—or their subsidiaries, once the Secretary of Commerce identifies the specific covered transactions and persons. It also directs the Secretary to keep evaluating other Chinese connected software applications, and to report within 45 days, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence, on recommendations to prevent foreign adversaries from obtaining U.S. user data. It bans evasion or conspiracy to violate these prohibitions, defines key terms, and directs agencies to assist the Department of Commerce in implementing the order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13970
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·Donald Trump·86 FR 421
Sets updated rates of basic pay and salaries for federal employees and officials across multiple pay systems, based on schedules attached to the order. 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 military cadets and 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. The military pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2021, while the other pay schedules take effect at the start of the first full pay period on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13901 of December 26, 2019, as of these effective dates.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13969
Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School Choice
·Donald Trump·86 FR 219
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take steps, consistent with law, allowing funds available through the Community Services Block Grant program to be used by grantees and eligible entities to provide emergency learning scholarships to disadvantaged families for any child lacking access to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The scholarships may cover tuition and fees at private or parochial schools, homeschool, microschool, or learning-pod costs, special education and related therapies, or tutoring and remedial education. The order cites disruptions from school closures, including impacts on child welfare, students with special needs, and low-income and minority students, as justification. It states it does not alter existing agency authority or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, must be implemented subject to available appropriations, and does not create any enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13968
Promoting Redemption of Savings Bonds
·Donald Trump·85 FR 83745
Directs the Department of the Treasury to take steps to help owners of matured, unredeemed savings bonds—estimated at more than 75 million bonds worth about $27 billion—locate and redeem them. Instructs Treasury to digitize and make searchable records identifying registered owners and beneficiaries, completing an ongoing pilot project by the end of 2020 and prioritizing bond-issuance years with the highest unredeemed debt. Requires that digitized data be incorporated into the online "Treasury Hunt" search tool within 30 days of being received, consistent with privacy law. Orders Treasury to research why bondholders fail to redeem matured bonds and what barriers they face, and to work with states to gather data, share best practices, and encourage links to Treasury Hunt from state unclaimed-property websites. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to publish a report on implementation actions within six months. States it creates no enforceable legal rights and is subject to available funding.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13967
Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
·Donald Trump·85 FR 83739
Sets federal design policy favoring classical and other traditional architecture for certain federal buildings, including courthouses, agency headquarters, all federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and other public buildings expected to cost more than $50 million in 2020 dollars. In Washington, D.C., classical architecture becomes the preferred default style absent exceptional justification. Directs the General Services Administration to seek input from future building users and the general public before choosing architects or design styles, and to consider redesigning existing buildings that don't meet the new criteria when feasible. Establishes the President's Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture, made up of Commission of Fine Arts members, GSA officials, the Architect of the Capitol, and up to 20 outside appointees, to recommend policy updates by September 30, 2021, when the Council is set to terminate unless extended. Requires the GSA Administrator to notify the White House at least 30 days before approving designs, such as Brutalist or Deconstructivist styles, that diverge from the preferred approach, explaining the justification and comparative costs.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13966
Increasing Economic and Geographic Mobility
·Donald Trump·85 FR 81777
Sets federal policy favoring reduced occupational licensing burdens, guided by six principles: active oversight of licensing boards, adopting the least restrictive rules needed to protect public safety, periodic review of existing regulations, allowing people with criminal records to seek preliminary eligibility determinations, honoring out-of-state licenses for qualified, unrestricted applicants, and accommodating military spouses relocating due to permanent change-of-station orders. Directs agency heads, within 90 days and every two years after, to review their authorities and regulations for alignment with these principles and report findings to the Office of Management and Budget, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Also requires agencies to recommend ways to reward states, territories, and tribes that adopt consistent licensing reforms, with further reports and implementation steps due at 120 and 180 days, coordinated by the Small Business Administration, Commerce, Labor, and Health and Human Services departments. Defines key terms such as occupational license and active supervision, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13965
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2020
·Donald Trump·85 FR 81337