[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 4 (Monday, January 31, 2005)]
[Pages 112-113]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13371--Amendments to Executive Order 13285, Relating to 
the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation

January 27, 2005

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to modify the 
mission and functions of the President's Council on Service and Civic 
Participation (Council) and to extend the Council, it is hereby ordered 
that Executive Order 13285 of January 29, 2003, is amended as follows:
    Section 1. (a) Sections 2(a) and 2(b) of Executive Order 13285 are 
revised to read as follows: ``(a) The mission and functions of the 
Council shall be to:
(i)          promote volunteer service and civic participation in 
            American society;
(ii)         encourage the recognition of outstanding volunteer service 
            through the presentation of the President's Volunteer 
            Service Award by Council

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            members and Certifying Organizations, thereby encouraging 
            more such activity;
(iii)        promote the efforts and needs of local non-profits and 
            volunteer organizations, including volunteer centers;
(iv)         promote greater public access to information about existing 
            volunteer opportunities, including via the Internet;
(v)          assist with the promotion of Federally administered 
            volunteer programs and the link that they have to increasing 
            and strengthening community volunteer service; and
(vi)         promote increased and sustained private sector sponsorship 
            of and engagement in volunteer service.
    (b) In carrying out its mission, the Council shall:
(i)          encourage broad participation in the President's Volunteer 
            Service Award program by qualified individuals and groups, 
            especially students in primary schools, secondary schools, 
            and institutions of higher learning;
(ii)         exchange information and ideas with interested individuals 
            and organizations on ways to expand and improve volunteer 
            service and civic participation;
(iii)        advise the Chief Executive Officer of the CNCS on broad 
            dissemination, especially among schools and youth 
            organizations, of information regarding recommended 
            practices for the promotion of volunteer service and civic 
            participation, and other relevant educational and 
            promotional materials;
(iv)         monitor and advise the Chief Executive Officer of the CNCS 
            on the need for the enhancement of materials disseminated 
            pursuant to subsection 2(b)(iii) of this order; and
(v)          make recommendations from time to time to the President, 
            through the Director of the USA Freedom Corps, on ways to 
            encourage greater levels of volunteer service and civic 
            participation by individuals, schools, and organizations.''
    Sec. 2. Section 4(b) of Executive Order 13285 is revised to read as 
follows: ``(b) Unless further extended by the President, this order 
shall expire on January 29, 2007.''
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 January 27, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:46 a.m., January 28, 
2005]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 31.