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Executive Order 13585: Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees

President: Barack Obama

Continued fourteen presidential advisory committees through September 2013 and adjusted several committee rules.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 13585 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13585 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13585 do?

EO 13585 kept fourteen advisory bodies operating until September 30, 2013, including councils on exports, labor, infrastructure, disability, fitness and HBCUs. It also changed Federal Advisory Committee Act administration and made targeted amendments. Later continuation orders superseded its extension provisions and separately continued, changed or allowed committees to lapse.

Administration position: The order extended committee charters, not the underlying programs they advised, and did not guarantee that every body would continue afterward.
SignedSeptember 30, 2011
Committees continued14
Extension endSeptember 30, 2013

Before and after

Before the order

FACA-related presidential committees faced scheduled termination absent another presidential continuation.

After the order

Listed committees received two more years while later orders determined their subsequent status.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Designated departmentsAdminister committees under FACAHistorical
CommitteesContinue advisory work through the extensionCompleted
PresidentDecide later continuation or terminationHandled by successor orders

What happened next

EO 13585 continued fourteen bodies.

The stated extension period ended.

EO 13652 superseded key continuation provisions and issued a new list.