President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test

The order revokes EO 13824 (2018) and comprehensively rewrites EO 13265 (2002) to reconstitute the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. The reconstituted Council has up to 30 members appointed by the President for two-year terms, an Executive Director to manage daily operations, and HHS as its administrative and funding home. The order also reestablishes the Presidential Fitness Test — to be administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services with support from the Secretary of Education — as the main assessment tool for a Presidential Fitness Award. The Council is directed to advise the President on strategies for promoting youth sports, physical education, and nutrition, and to recommend actions targeting childhood obesity and military-readiness concerns.

The order does not itself mandate school participation in the fitness test, change any law, or create a binding public benefit or prohibition; actual reach depends on future Council recommendations and agency implementation. The Council automatically terminates two years from the signing date unless the President acts to extend it. EO 12345 of February 2, 1982, is also revoked.

Up to 30 presidential appointees serving on the Council, HHS and Department of Education staff providing administrative support, professional athletes and sports organizations invited as partners, and — if the fitness test and school programs are ultimately implemented — children in K-12 physical education programs nationwide.

If future agency action translates the reestablished Presidential Fitness Test into school programs, millions of children in physical education classes could be assessed under a new national standard. Until that implementation occurs, the order's direct impact is limited to standing up an advisory council and restarting an administrative framework.

HHS serves as the Council's administrative home, providing funding and logistical support within existing appropriations. The Executive Director liaises between the Council and the President and coordinates with agencies and outside partners. The Council advises and recommends — it has no independent regulatory or enforcement authority. It terminates automatically two years from signing (July 31, 2027) unless the President issues an extension. The Federal Advisory Committee Act governs its operations, with HHS performing presidential functions under that Act except congressional reporting.