[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 2 (Monday, January 15, 2001)]
[Pages 76-77]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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Executive Order 13187--The President's Disability Employment Partnership
Board
January 10, 2001
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), and in order to promote the
employment of people with disabilities, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment and Composition of the Board. (a) There is
hereby established the President's Disability Employment Partnership
Board (Board).
(b) The Board shall be composed of not more than 15 members who
shall be appointed by the President for terms of 2 years. The membership
shall include individuals who are representatives of business (including
small business), labor organizations, State or local government,
disabled veterans, people with disabilities, organizations serving
people with disabilities, and researchers or academicians focusing on
issues relating to the employment of people with disabilities, and may
include other individuals representing entities involved in issues
relating to the employment of people with disabilities as the President
finds appropriate.
(c) The President shall designate a Chairperson from among the
members of the Board to serve a term of two years.
(d) Members and the Chairperson may be reappointed for subsequent
terms and may continue to serve until their successors have been
appointed.
Sec. 2. Functions. (a) The Board shall provide advice and
information to the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of
Labor, and other appropriate Federal officials with respect to
facilitating the employment of people with disabilities, and shall
assist in other activities that promote the formation of public-private
partnerships, the use of economic incentives, the provision of technical
assistance regarding entrepreneurship, and other actions that may
enhance employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
(b) In carrying out paragraph (a) of this section, the Board shall:
(i) develop and submit to the Office of Disability Employment
Policy in the Department of Labor a comprehensive written plan for joint
public-private efforts to promote employment opportunities for people
with disabilities and improve their access to financial institutions and
commercial and business enterprises;
(ii) identify strategies that may be used by employers, labor
unions, national and international organizations, and Federal, State,
and local officials to increase employment opportunities for people with
disabilities; and
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(iii) coordinate with the Office of Disability Employment Policy in
the Department of Labor in promoting the collaborative use of public and
private resources to assist people with disabilities in forming and
expanding small business concerns and in enhancing their access to
Federal procurement and other relevant business opportunities. Public
resources include those of the Department of Labor, the Small Business
Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education,
the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury, the Department of
Veterans Affairs, the Federal Communications Commission, and of
executive departments and agency offices responsible for small,
disadvantaged businesses utilization.
(c) The Board shall submit annual written reports to the President,
who may apprise the Congress and other interested organizations and
individuals on its activities, progress, and problems relating to
maximizing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
(d) The Chairperson of the Board shall serve as a member and Vice
Chair of the National Task Force on Employment of Adults with
Disabilities established under Executive Order 13078 of March 13, 1998.
Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The Board shall meet when called by the
Chairperson, at a time and place designated by the Chairperson. The
Chairperson shall call at least two meetings per calendar year. The
Chairperson may form subcommittees or working groups within the Board to
address particular matters.
(b) The Chairperson may from time to time prescribe such rules,
procedures, and policies relating to the activities of the Board as are
not inconsistent with law or with the provisions of this order.
(c) Members of the Board shall serve without compensation but shall
be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence,
as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in Federal
service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707).
(d) The Department of Labor shall provide funding and appropriate
support to assist the Board in carrying out the activities described in
section 2 of this order, including necessary office space, equipment,
supplies, services, and staff. The functions of the President under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, except that of reporting to
the Congress, that are applicable to the Commission, shall be performed
by the Department of Labor in accordance with guidelines that have been
issued by the Administrator of General Services.
(e) The heads of executive departments and agencies shall, to the
extent permitted by law, provide the Board such information as it may
need for purposes of carrying out the functions described in section 2
of this order.
Sec. 4. Prior Orders and Transition. (a) Executive Order 12640 of
May 10, 1988, as amended, relating to the establishment of the
President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, is
hereby revoked. The employees, records, property, and funds of the
Committee shall become the employees, records, property, and funds of
the Department of Labor.
(b) Executive Order 13078 of March 13, 1998, is amended in sections
1(a) and (b) by striking ``Chair of the President's Committee on
Employment of People with Disabilities'' and inserting ``Chairperson of
the President's Disability Employment Partnership Board.''
William J. Clinton
The White House,
January 10, 2001.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 12,
2001]
Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on
January 17.