For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 25, 2003
Executive Act on Intellectual Disabilities
Executive Order 12994
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to change the
name of the "Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation" to the
"Presidents Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities" (the
"Committee") and expand the membership of the Committee, it is hereby
ordered as follows:
Section 1. The Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation is
hereby renamed the Presidents Committee for People with Intellectual
Disabilities.
Sec. 2. Executive Order 12994 of March 21, 1996, is hereby amended
by deleting the words "mental retardation" and inserting the words
"intellectual disabilities" in lieu thereof throughout the text of that
order, except in the title, the first line of the preamble, and section
1 of that order.
Sec. 3. Section 1 of Executive Order 12994 is amended by deleting
the words "(the "Committee")" and adding after "responsibilities," the
words "and renamed the Presidents Committee for People with
Intellectual Disabilities (the "Committee"),".
Sec. 4. Section 2 of Executive Order 12994 is amended by inserting
after "(5) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;" the
following: "(6) The Secretary of Commerce; (7) The Secretary of
Transportation; (8) The Secretary of the Interior; (9) The Secretary of
Homeland Security;" and renumbering former subsections (6) through (9)
as subsections (10) through (13).
Sec. 5. The Committee is continued until September 30, 2005.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 25, 2003.
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