Increasing the Opportunity for Individuals With Disabilities To Be Employed in the Federal Government
Signed July 26, 2000·William J. Clinton·65 FR 46563
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Directs federal agencies to increase employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities, citing a goal of hiring 100,000 qualified individuals with disabilities across the Federal Government over the next five years. Agencies are told to use existing hiring authorities, expand outreach efforts through traditional and nontraditional methods, and improve accommodations for disabled employees, while the order clarifies it does not require creating new positions or changing qualification standards. Each federal agency must prepare a plan for increasing such opportunities and submit it to the Office of Personnel Management within 60 days. The Office of Personnel Management is directed to issue guidance implementing the order's provisions. The order states it is intended only to improve internal executive branch management and does not create any legally enforceable rights or benefits for outside parties.
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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 promote an increase in the opportunities for individuals with disabilities to be employed at all levels and occupations of the Federal Government, and to support the goals articulated in section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 791), it is hereby ordered
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See: EO 13548, July 26, 2010; EO 13583, August 18, 2011
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Executive Order 13163 of July 26, 2000
Increasing the Opportunity for Individuals With
Disabilities To Be Employed in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to promote an increase in the
opportunities for individuals with disabilities to be
employed at all levels and occupations of the Federal
Government, and to support the goals articulated in
section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29
U.S.C. 791), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Increasing the Federal Employment
Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities. (a)
Recent evidence demonstrates that, throughout the
United States, qualified persons with disabilities have
been refused employment despite their availability and
qualifications, and many qualified persons with
disabilities are never made aware of available
employment opportunities. Evidence also suggests that
increased efforts at outreach, and increased
understanding of the reasonable accommodations
available for persons with disabilities, will permit
persons with disabilities to compete for employment on
a more level playing field.
(b) Based on current hiring patterns and
anticipated increases from expanded outreach efforts
and appropriate accommodations, the Federal Government,
over the next 5 years, will be able to hire 100,000
qualified individuals with disabilities. In furtherance
of such efforts, Federal agencies shall:
(1) Use available hiring authorities, consistent with statutes,
regulations, and prior Executive orders and Presidential Memoranda;
(2) Expand their outreach efforts, using both traditional and
nontraditional methods; and
(3) Increase their efforts to accommodate individuals with disabilities.
(c) As a model employer, the Federal Government
will take the lead in educating the public about
employment opportunities available for individuals with
disabilities.
(d) This order does not require agencies to create
new positions or to change existing qualification
standards for any position.
Sec. 2. Implementation. Each Federal agency shall
prepare a plan to increase the opportunities for
individuals with disabilities to be employed in the
agency. Each agency shall submit that plan to the
Office of Personnel Management within 60 days from the
date of this order.
Sec. 3. Authority to Develop Guidance. The Office of
Personnel Management shall develop guidance on the
provisions of this order to increase the opportunities
for individuals with disabilities employed in the
Federal Government.
Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to
improve the internal management of the executive branch
and does not create any right or benefit, substantive
or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party
against the United States, its agencies, its officers,
its employees, or any person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 26, 2000.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 26, 2000. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.