Amendment to Executive Order 13183, Establishment of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status
Signed December 3, 2003·George W. Bush·68 FR 68233
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Amends Executive Order 13183, which established the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status. Changes the Task Force's composition to designees of each member of the President's Cabinet along with the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director for Intergovernmental Affairs, and sets its leadership as a co-chair arrangement between the Attorney General's designee and that Deputy Assistant. Also revises the reporting requirement, directing the Task Force to report to the President on its actions as needed, but at least once every two years, covering progress toward determining Puerto Rico's ultimate political status.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Amends: EO 13183, December 23, 2000
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Executive Order 13319 of December 3, 2003
Amendment to Executive Order 13183, Establishment
of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
13183 of December 23, 2000, as amended, is further
amended as follows:
(1) Section 2 is amended by deleting the second and
third sentences, and inserting in lieu thereof the
following: “It shall be composed of designees of each
member of the President's Cabinet and the Deputy
Assistant to the President and Director for
Intergovernmental Affairs. The Task Force shall be co-
chaired by the Attorney General's designee and the
Deputy Assistant to the President and Director for
Intergovernmental Affairs.”
(2) By deleting section 4, and inserting in lieu
thereof the following: “Sec. 4. Report. The Task Force
shall report on its actions to the President as needed,
but no less frequently than once every 2 years, on
progress made in the determination of Puerto Rico's
ultimate status.”
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 3, 2003.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 3, 2003. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.