Amendments to Executive Order 12994, and Renaming the President's Committee on Mental Retardation as the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Signed July 25, 2003·George W. Bush·68 FR 44851
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Renames the President's Committee on Mental Retardation as the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities and amends Executive Order 12994 accordingly, replacing references to "mental retardation" with "intellectual disabilities" throughout most of that order's text. Expands the Committee's membership by adding the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, renumbering the previously listed members accordingly. Continues the Committee's existence until September 30, 2005.
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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 change the name of the “President's Committee on Mental Retardation” to the “President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities” (the “Committee”) and expand the membership of the Committee, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12994, March 21, 1996
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13309 of July 25, 2003
Amendments to Executive Order 12994, and Renaming
the President's Committee on Mental Retardation as the
President's Committee for People with Intellectual
Disabilities
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to change the name of the
“President's Committee on Mental Retardation” to the
“President's Committee for People with Intellectual
Disabilities” (the “Committee”) and expand the
membership of the Committee, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. The President's Committee on Mental
Retardation is hereby renamed the President's Committee
for People with Intellectual Disabilities.
Sec. 2. Executive Order 12994 of March 21, 1996, is
hereby amended by deleting the words “mental
retardation” and inserting the words “intellectual
disabilities” in lieu thereof throughout the text of
that order, except in the title, the first line of the
preamble, and section 1 of that order.
Sec. 3. Section 1 of Executive Order 12994 is amended
by deleting the words “(the “Committee”)” and
adding after “responsibilities,” the words “and
renamed the President's Committee for People with
Intellectual Disabilities (the “Committee”),”.
Sec. 4. Section 2 of Executive Order 12994 is amended
by inserting after “(5) The Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development;” the following: “(6) The Secretary
of Commerce; (7) The Secretary of Transportation; (8)
The Secretary of the Interior; (9) The Secretary of
Homeland Security;” and renumbering former subsections
(6) through (9) as subsections (10) through (13).
Sec. 5. The Committee is continued until September 30,
2005.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 25, 2003.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 25, 2003. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.