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Executive Order 13124

Amending the Civil Service Rules Relating To Federal Employees With Psychiatric Disabilities

This executive order amends Civil Service Rules to give federal employees with psychiatric disabilities the same hiring and career conversion opportunities as those with severe physical disabilities or mental retardation. Previously, only the latter two groups could convert from excepted service to competitive status after two years of satisfactory service; this order extends that same pathway to individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

Federal Register Open PDF 64 FR 31103

Key directives

No discrete directives extracted.

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • OPM directed to amend Civil Service Rule III (5 CFR Part 3, section 3.1(b)) to add psychiatric disabilities to competitive status conversion pathway

Near term (90d)

  • OPM to prescribe implementing regulations

Long term

  • Individuals with psychiatric disabilities may now build federal careers with competitive status after 2 years satisfactory excepted service; structural change to federal employment equity

Risks & tensions

None flagged.

Executive Order 13124: Amending the Civil Service Rules Relating To Federal Employees With Psychiatric Disabilities · Executive Orders