Presidential Executive Orders Relating to Disabilities

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• Executive Order 13347 - Individuals With Disabilities in Emergency Preparedness
• Executive Order 13309 - Amendments to Executive Order 12994, and Renaming the Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation As the Presidents Committee for People With Intellectual Disabilities
• Executive Order 13217 - Community-Based Alternatives for Individuals With Disabilities
• Executive Order 13187 - The President's Disability Employment Partnership Board (revokes 12640)
• Executive Order 13172 - Amendment to Executive Order 13078, To Expand the Role of the National Task Force on Employment of Adults With Disabilities To Include a Focus on Youth (UCSB)
• Executive Order 13164 - Requiring Federal Agencies To Establish Procedures To Facilitate the Provision of Reasonable Accommodation (UCSB Text)
• Executive Order 13163 - Increasing the Opportunity for Individuals With Disabilities To Be Employed in the Federal Government (UCSB Text)
• people who are physically disabled, mentally retarded, and mentally ill.
• Executive Order 13124 - Amending the Civil Service Rules Relating to Federal Employees With Psychiatric Disabilities
• Executive Order 13078 - Increasing Employment of Adults With Disabilities, Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities (OPM Text, DOT PDF, UCSB Text)
• Executive Order 12945 - Amendment to 12640 changing the composition of the Committee
• Executive Order 12640 - Presidents Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities (Text of 12640) - Committee shall provide advice and information as to the development of maximum employment opportunities for

References:

• Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Text) -
  • an Interagency Committee on Employees who are Individuals with Disabilities
  • an affirmative action program plan for the hiring, placement, and advancement of individuals with disabilities in such department, agency, or instrumentality
  • policies and procedures which will facilitate the hiring, placement, and advancement in employment of individuals who have received rehabilitation services under State vocational rehabilitation programs
  • each subsequent fiscal year, make a complete report to the appropriate committees of the Congress with respect to the practices of and achievements in hiring, placement, and advancement of individuals with disabilities by each department, agency, and instrumentality
  • The standards used to determine whether this section has been violated in a complaint alleging nonaffirmative action employment discrimination under this section shall be the standards applied under ... Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ... as such sections relate to employment.
• Re-charting the Course: The First Report of the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities (1998)
  • Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities
• Office of Disability Employment Policy - Employment Laws: Medical and Disability-Related Leave
• Memorandum on Hiring People With Disabilities in the Federal Government - October 16, 1999 (Text)
• Memorandum on Employing People With Significant Disabilities To Fill Federal Agency Jobs That Can Be Performed at Alternate Work Sites, Including the Home - July 26, 2000 (USCB)
• Memorandum on the Interagency Task Force To Examine the Role of Medicare and Medicaid Coverage of Assistive Technologies in Encouraging the Employment of Persons with Disabilities - September 21, 2000 (USCB)
• Statement on the 25th Anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - November 29, 2000 (USCB)