Executive Order 14327 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test
Signed: 2025-07-31 Published: 2025-08-06 Federal Register document: 2025-15011
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
Federal Register notes (as of 2026-10-19): See: EO 10830, July 24, 1959 Revokes: EO 12345, February 2, 1982; EO 13824, February 26, 2018 Amends: EO 13265, June 6, 2002
What Executive Order 14327 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 149 (Wednesday, August 6, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 6, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 37993-37996] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-15011] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 149 / Wednesday, August 6, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 37993]] Executive Order 14327 of July 31, 2025 President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to promote the economic, academic, and social benefits of youth sports, fitness, and nutrition, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Revocation. Executive Order 13824 of February 26, 2018 (President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition), is hereby revoked. Sec. 2. Amendment. Executive Order 13265 of June 6, 2002 (President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports), is hereby amended as follows: (a) The title is revised to read as follows: ``President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and the Reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test''. (b) The preamble is revised to read as follows: ``By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of...
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Advisory reestablishment of a fitness council and voluntary Presidential Fitness Test under presidential Article II management authority, with no mandate, prohibition, surveillance, or taking. Minor federal-voice overlap with traditionally local physical education, but no compulsion or preemption.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
The President acts under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 authority to oversee faithful execution and request opinions and advice. Establishing an advisory council, directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Secretary of Education to administer a voluntary fitness assessment, and revoking or amending prior executive orders 13824, 13265, and 1… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision compels speech, religion, press, assembly, or petition under the First Amendment; imposes no restriction on arms under the Second Amendment; authorizes no search, seizure, or surveillance under the Fourth Amendment; and creates no criminal liability implicating the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause or Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments. Programs described are advisory, prom… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The order does not mandate exercise, diet, testing, or participation as a condition of schooling, employment, or benefits. References to expanding opportunities, promoting benefits, rewarding excellence, and partnerships indicate persuasion and voluntary recognition under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments framework. Bodily autonomy, parental judgment, and local school discretion remain intact because… -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Fitness and school physical education are traditionally state and local matters under the Tenth Amendment, so individual, local, and state capacity exists. This order does not mandate curricula, compel schools, or preempt state control; it creates an advisory Council under Article II, Section 3, directs inter-agency assistance within existing appropriations, and proposes voluntary challenges, awar… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. There is no fine, license revocation, criminal process, or property seizure requiring notice and hearing, and no appropriation of private property requiring just compensation under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. Council service without compensation is voluntary and travel reimbursement is express…
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