[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.