Amendments to Executive Order 12994, and Renaming the President's Committee on Mental Retardation as the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Renames President's Disability Committee and Expands Federal Membership
What it does
Agencies must add Commerce, Transportation, Interior, and Homeland Security secretaries to the renamed committee and replace 'mental retardation' with 'intellectual disabilities' in the prior order.
Real-world impact
- Renames the committee to reference 'people with intellectual disabilities'.
- Adds four cabinet secretaries to the committee membership.
- Continues the committee's operation through September 30, 2005.
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Summary
This order renames the "President's Committee on Mental Retardation" to the "President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities" and directs changes in the earlier order to replace the old term throughout its text. It also amends membership by adding the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, the Interior, and Homeland Security, and adjusts the numbering of other members.
The order continues the committee in operation until September 30, 2005.
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