Amendment to Executive Order No. 12640
Signed January 20, 1995·William J. Clinton·60 FR 4527
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Amends Executive Order 12640 to increase the number of Vice Chair positions on the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities from four to six. It also replaces the terms "Vice Chairman" and "Vice Chairmen" throughout Executive Order 12640 with the gender-neutral terms "Vice Chair" and "Vice Chairs." The change is made under authority related to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to provide for the carrying out of the provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Public Law 93-112, section 501(a)-(f), as amended (29 U.S.C. 791(a)-(f)), and in order to add two Vice Chair positions to the four already provided to the “President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities,” it is hereby ordered
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The order, in full
Executive Order 12945 of January 20, 1995
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12640
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to provide for the carrying out
of the provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
Public Law 93-112, section 501(a)-(f), as amended (29
U.S.C. 791(a)-(f)), and in order to add two Vice Chair
positions to the four already provided to the
“President's Committee on Employment of People with
Disabilities,” it is hereby ordered that:
(1) The first sentence of section 1(b) of Executive
Order No. 12640 be amended by deleting the words “four
Vice Chairmen” and inserting the words “six Vice
Chairs” in lieu thereof; and
(2) The words “Vice Chair” or “Vice Chairs” be
inserted in lieu of the words “Vice Chairman” and
“Vice Chairmen,” respectively, wherever such words
appear in Executive Order No. 12640.
(Presidential Sig.)>
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 1995.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 20, 1995. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.