Health and social policy

Executive Order 12945: Amendment to Executive Order No. 12640

President: Bill Clinton

Expanded the leadership of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities from four to six vice chairs and modernized its wording.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 12945 still in effect? No. Ended when EO 13187 revoked the amended parent order on January 10, 2001.

What does Executive Order 12945 do?

EO 12945 raised the permitted number of vice chairs on the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities from four to six and updated a pronoun in the parent order. President Clinton addressed the committee's 1996 conference and identified its leadership, confirming that the advisory body remained active after the amendment. The remarks do not establish that all six positions were filled or that the change caused any particular program. EO 13187 revoked the parent order as amended in 2001 and transferred its personnel and property to Labor.

Administration position: The order altered committee leadership capacity. It did not change employment-discrimination statutes or create enforceable rights.
SignedJanuary 20, 1995
Parent orderEO 12640
Vice chairsIncreased from four to six

Before and after

Before the order

EO 12640 authorized four vice chairs and used gendered wording.

After the order

The committee could have six vice chairs until the parent order was revoked.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
PresidentAppoint up to six vice chairsWhile the committee existed
Committee chairDelegate functions using the revised provisionUntil January 2001

What happened next

EO 12640 established the committee.

EO 12945 amended its leadership provisions.

President Clinton addressed the committee's conference and acknowledged its leadership.

EO 13187 revoked EO 12640 as amended.