Executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, determinations, and other instruments — filter by administration, type, and theme.
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This executive order establishes a presidential commission to study and recommend improvements to the U.S. mental health service delivery system for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. The commission is tasked with reviewing current services, identifying effective treatments, and submitting interim and final reports to the President.
This determination authorizes a $4 million drawdown of U.S. defense articles, services, and military education/training from Department of Defense stocks for Georgia under foreign assistance authorities. The Secretary of State must report this to Congress and publish it in the Federal Register.
President Bush determined that providing defense articles and services to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan would strengthen U.S. security and promote world peace, authorizing the Secretary of State to report this to Congress and publish it in the Federal Register. This determination lifted prior restrictions on military assistance to these three post-Soviet states.
President Bush waived section 1003 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 for six months, allowing the Palestine Liberation Organization to maintain its office in Washington, D.C. The waiver was justified as important to U.S. national security interests and required transmission to Congress and publication in the Federal Register.
President Bush authorized transferring up to $20 million from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to UNRWA to address urgent refugee needs in the West Bank and Gaza. The Secretary of State was directed to notify Congress and arrange Federal Register publication.
This executive order amends the Manual for Courts-Martial to implement expanded sentencing authority for special courts-martial (up to one year confinement), remove Federal Rule of Evidence 415 from military proceedings, add protective order authority for military judges, clarify definitions of civilian convictions, update maximum punishments for several offenses including life without parole for certain sex crimes, and make various procedural changes to military justice administration.
President George W. Bush waived statutory certification requirements to allow up to $95 million in nonproliferation funds to be provided to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), bypassing conditions that North Korea comply with the 1994 Agreed Framework and make progress on missile elimination. The determination directs the Secretary of State to report to Congress and publish the decision in the Federal Register.