All Executive Orders
Executive Order 13891Revoked
Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents
Federal & State Law Editorial TeamLast reviewed: April 2026
Donald Trump
October 9, 2019
84 FR 55235
This executive order has been revoked
EO 13992 (Biden)
Summary
Required agencies to treat guidance documents as non-binding and to publish them in a single searchable database. Intended to curtail the use of guidance documents as de facto regulations.
Topics
regulatory reformagency guidancerule of law
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