Defense and national security

Executive Order 13297: Applying the Federal Physicians Comparability Allowance Amendments of 2000 to Participants in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, the Foreign Service Pension System, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System

President: George W. Bush

Applied statutory physicians-comparability-allowance changes to eligible Foreign Service and CIA retirement-system participants.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13297 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13297 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13297 do?

The order assigned these duties: OPM, State Department and CIA human-resources and payroll officials — Applied statutory physicians-comparability-allowance changes to eligible Foreign Service and CIA retirement-system participants.

Checked the physician comparability allowance amendment against the 2000 statute and order text. Its scope is limited to eligible participants and statutory conditions; it is not a general federal physician pay increase.

Administration position: The order’s policy rationale is described in its text and administration records. Implementation and legal observations below are based on the cited official sources.
SignedApril 23, 2003
IssuerPresident George W. Bush
Lead agencies or officialsOPM, State Department and CIA human-resources and payroll officials
Express timingEffective for covered pay and allowance determinations under the 2000 amendments

Before and after

Before the order

The 2000 statutory amendments expanded comparability allowances but required executive implementation for the named retirement systems.

After the order

The agencies applied the allowance rules through personnel and payroll procedures, subject to later statutory and regulatory updates.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
OPM, State Department and CIA human-resources and payroll officialsApplied statutory physicians-comparability-allowance changes to eligible Foreign Service and CIA retirement-system participants.Effective for covered pay and allowance determinations under the 2000 amendments

What happened next

EO 13297 signed.

2003 onward — OPM and the affected agencies incorporated the allowance into compensation administration.