[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 30 (Monday, July 28, 2003)]
[Pages 978-979]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13309--Amendments to Executive Order 12994, and Renaming 
the President's Committee on Mental Retardation As the President's 
Committee for People With Intellectual Disabilities

July 25, 2003

    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 ``President's Committee on Mental Retardation'' to the 
``President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities'' (the 
``Committee'') and expand the membership of the Committee, it is hereby 
ordered as follows:
    Section 1. The President's Committee on Mental Retardation is hereby 
renamed the President's 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

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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 President's 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.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:57 a.m., July 29, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
July 30.