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Executive orders

Orders Iowa’s governors have signed, from Governor Hughes in the 1960s to Governor Reynolds. An order directs state agencies, or sets up a task force or council, under powers in the Constitution or state law. It isn’t a law: the next governor can change it.1 Bills on the Governor’s desk · Proclamations

Governor Harold E. Hughes · 11

  • Executive Order 11 · Hughes · February 19, 1969
    Proclaims the need for a regional form of state government and delineates the manner in which this regional plan will be implemented.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 10 · Hughes · February 19, 1968
    Establishes the regional implementation and administration of state programs and services through sixteen area planning and service regions and sixteen cities.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 9 · Hughes · October 11, 1967
    Establishes a revised Code of Fair Practices, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or ancestry by state agencies, and repeals Executive Order 1 (Code of Fair Practices, M…
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 8 · Hughes · August 24, 1967
    Establishes the Office for Planning and Programming within the Office of the Governor.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 7 · Hughes · January 12, 1967
    Makes honorary appointments to the Staff of the Commander in Chief.
  • Executive Order 6 · Hughes · November 7, 1966
    Establishes the Office for State Planning and Procedure, which will coordinate the orderly and desirable long-range social, economic, cultural, and physical development of Iowa, including the use of federal grant-in-aid …
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 5 · Hughes · June 29, 1966
    Calls on all peace officers in the state to assist during the visit of President Lyndon B. Johnson to Des Moines and surrounding areas.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 4 · Hughes · June 2, 1966
    States that Iowa will participate in the Compact for Education formulated at the National Governor’s Conference, which convened on September 29, 1965, in Kansas City, Missouri.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 3 · Hughes · December 17, 1965
    Facilitates the extradition of criminal offenders to other states and ends the practice of collecting a five-dollar service charge for processing an extradition request from another state.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 2 · Hughes · September 7, 1964
    Calls on all peace officers in the state to assist during President B. Lyndon Johnson’s campaign visit to Des Moines.
    Rescinded
  • Executive Order 1 · Hughes · May 14, 1964
    Establishes the Code of Fair Practices, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or ancestry by state officials and state agencies.
    Rescinded

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