Health and social policy

Executive Order 13078: Increasing Employment of Adults With Disabilities

President: Bill Clinton

Created an interagency task force to develop policy for reducing employment barriers faced by adults with disabilities and make the federal government a model employer.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 13078 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13078 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13078 do?

EO 13078 directed a broad interagency task force to examine benefits, health coverage, accommodation, transport, housing, training, entrepreneurship, data and federal personnel policy. Later amendments added a youth focus and changed membership. The order required a final report by July 26, 2002 and termination 30 days later. Labor identifies the task force’s recommendation as a foundation for Congress’s creation of the permanent Office of Disability Employment Policy.

Administration position: The task force developed recommendations and coordination; it did not itself guarantee a job, benefit or accommodation in an individual case.
SignedMarch 13, 1998
Final report dueJuly 26, 2002
Termination30 days after final report

Before and after

Before the order

Disability-employment responsibilities were spread across programs without the order’s cabinet-level coordinating body.

After the order

The task force produced a final report presented on July 26, 2002. Labor traces the permanent disability employment policy office to a 1999 task-force recommendation.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Labor SecretaryChair the task forceCompleted
Member agenciesReview barriers and implement or recommend changesCompleted
OPM, Labor and EEOCReview federal personnel policyCompleted

What happened next

EO 13078 created the task force.

The task force presented its final report; the order called for termination 30 days later unless continued under its terms.