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Executive Order 13309: Amendments to Executive Order 12994, and renaming the President's Committee on Mental Retardation as the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities

President: George W. Bush

Renamed the presidential committee for people with intellectual disabilities and enlarged its agency membership.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13309 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13309 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13309 do?

The committee received its new name, four additional Cabinet agencies, and a September 30, 2005 continuation date. EO 13385 subsequently continued the committee past the 2005 deadline, and EO 13446 made further continuance and amendments. The 2005 date is therefore historical, not a statement that it necessarily closed then.

Checked the committee renaming and later term extensions against EO 13385 and EO 13446. The guide treats the original deadline as historical and avoids assuming that committee operations continued without a later charter.

Administration position: The order states a goal of updating the committee’s name and expanding its federal agency membership.
SignedJuly 25, 2003
Prior frameworkEO 12994 used the former committee name and a narrower list of federal agency members.
Responsible officialPresident and listed Cabinet departments
Later primary evidence2005: EO 13385 subsequently continued the committee past the 2005 deadline, and EO 13446 made further continuance and amendments. The 2005 date is therefore historical, not a statement that it necessarily closed then.

Before and after

Before the order

EO 12994 used the former committee name and a narrower list of federal agency members.

After the order

The committee received its new name, four additional Cabinet agencies, and a September 30, 2005 continuation date.

EO 13385 subsequently continued the committee past the 2005 deadline, and EO 13446 made further continuance and amendments. The 2005 date is therefore historical, not a statement that it necessarily closed then.

What changed?

EO 12994 used the former committee name and a narrower list of federal agency members. The committee received its new name, four additional Cabinet agencies, and a September 30, 2005 continuation date.

What does later evidence show?

GovInfo — EO 13385 later committee continuation documents the later development: EO 13385 subsequently continued the committee past the 2005 deadline, and EO 13446 made further continuance and amendments. The 2005 date is therefore historical, not a statement that it necessarily closed then. A renamed advisory committee is not a new entitlement program.

What are the limits?

This order changes the name and composition of an advisory committee established by EO 12994. It did not enact new disability benefits. Later continuance orders govern later terms; this review does not establish a current 2026 charter. Read the signed order for its operative language.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
President and listed Cabinet departmentsRenamed and expanded advisory committee membershipAs limited by the signed order

What happened next

EO 13309 signed.