[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 29, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14391]
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Vol. 90
Tuesday,
No. 143
July 29, 2025
Part III
The President
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Executive Order 14321--Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
Executive Order 14322--Saving College Sports
Notice of July 25, 2025--Continuation of the National Emergency With
Respect to Lebanon
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Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 143 / Tuesday, July 29, 2025 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 14321 of July 24, 2025
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy,
disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent
attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of
individuals living on the streets in the United States
on a single night during the last year of the previous
administration--274,224--was the highest ever recorded.
The overwhelming majority of these individuals are
addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or
both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report
having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines,
cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally
large share of homeless individuals reported suffering
from mental health conditions. The Federal Government
and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars
on failed programs that address homelessness but not
its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to
public safety threats.
Shifting homeless individuals into long-term
institutional settings for humane treatment through the
appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public
order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder
and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor
other citizens. My Administration will take a new
approach focused on protecting public safety.
Sec. 2. Restoring Civil Commitment. (a) The Attorney
General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:
(i) seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial
precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United
States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental
illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the
streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for
appropriate periods of time; and
(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical
guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification,
adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment,
institutional treatment, and ``step-down'' treatment standards that allow
for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental
illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot
care for themselves.
Sec. 3. Fighting Vagrancy on America's Streets. (a) The
Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall
take immediate steps to assess their discretionary
grant programs and determine whether priority for those
grants may be given to grantees in States and
municipalities that actively meet the below criteria,
to the maximum extent permitted by law:
(i) enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use;
(ii) enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;
(iii) enforce prohibitions on urban squatting;
(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address
individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from
serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the
streets and
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cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by
moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via
civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted
by law; or
(v) substantially implement and comply with, to the extent required, the
registration and notification obligations of the Sex Offender Registry and
Notification Act, particularly in the case of registered sex offenders with
no fixed address, including by adequately mapping and checking the location
of homeless sex offenders.
(b) The Attorney General shall:
(i) ensure that homeless individuals arrested for Federal crimes are
evaluated, consistent with 18 U.S.C. 4248, to determine whether they are
sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;
(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the
Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as
consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in
areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are
inadequate;
(iii) assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed
toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with
serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack
of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or
hospitals; and
(iv) enhance requirements that prisons and residential reentry centers that
are under the authority of the Attorney General or receive funding from the
Attorney General require in-custody housing release plans and, to the
maximum extent practicable, require individuals to comply.
Sec. 4. Redirecting Federal Resources Toward Effective
Methods of Addressing Homelessness. (a) The Secretary
of Health and Human Services shall take appropriate
action to:
(i) ensure that discretionary grants issued by the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration for substance use disorder
prevention, treatment, and recovery fund evidence-based programs and do not
fund programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called
``harm reduction'' or ``safe consumption'' efforts that only facilitate
illegal drug use and its attendant harm;
(ii) provide technical assistance to assisted outpatient treatment programs
for individuals with serious mental illness or addiction during and after
the civil commitment process focused on shifting such individuals off of
the streets and public programs and into private housing and support
networks; and
(iii) ensure that Federal funds for Federally Qualified Health Centers and
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics reduce rather than promote
homelessness by supporting, to the maximum extent permitted by law,
comprehensive services for individuals with serious mental illness and
substance use disorder, including crisis intervention services.
(b) The Attorney General shall prioritize available
funding to support the expansion of drug courts and
mental health courts for individuals for which such
diversion serves public safety.
Sec. 5. Increasing Accountability and Safety in
America's Homelessness Programs. (a) The Secretary of
Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development shall take appropriate actions to
increase accountability in their provision of, and
grants awarded for, homelessness assistance and
transitional living programs. These actions shall
include, to the extent permitted by law, ending support
for ``housing first'' policies that deprioritize
accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery,
and self-sufficiency; increasing competition among
grantees through broadening the applicant pool; and
holding grantees to higher standards of effectiveness
in reducing homelessness and increasing public safety.
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(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
shall, as appropriate, take steps to require recipients
of Federal housing and homelessness assistance to
increase requirements that persons participating in the
recipients' programs who suffer from substance use
disorder or serious mental illness use substance abuse
treatment or mental health services as a condition of
participation.
(c) With respect to recipients of Federal housing
and homelessness assistance that operate drug injection
sites or ``safe consumption sites,'' knowingly
distribute drug paraphernalia, or permit the use or
distribution of illicit drugs on property under their
control:
(i) the Attorney General shall review whether such recipients are in
violation of Federal law, including 21 U.S.C. 856, and bring civil or
criminal actions in appropriate cases; and
(ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with
the Attorney General, shall review whether such recipients are in violation
of the terms of the programs pursuant to which they receive Federal housing
and homelessness assistance and freeze their assistance as appropriate.
(d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
shall take appropriate measures and revise regulations
as necessary to allow, where permissible under
applicable law, federally funded programs to
exclusively house women and children and to stop sex
offenders who receive homelessness assistance through
such programs from being housed with unrelated
children.
(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
in consultation with the Attorney General and the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall, as
appropriate and to the extent permitted by law:
(i) allow or require the recipients of Federal funding for homelessness
assistance to collect health-related information that the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development identifies as necessary to the effective and
efficient operation of the funding program from all persons to whom such
assistance is provided; and
(ii) require those funding recipients to share such data with law
enforcement authorities in circumstances permitted by law and to use the
collected health data to provide appropriate medical care to individuals
with mental health diagnoses or to connect individuals to public health
resources.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
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(d) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 24, 2025.
[FR Doc. 2025-14391
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