Gov. King's Executive Orders
| EO No. |
Year |
Mass. Reg. No. |
Title/Subject |
| 151 |
1979 |
145 |
Amending 2 EO 114 and 127 re the Judicial Nominating Commission. Amended by 2 EO 154 and 178. Revoked by 2 EO 223. |
| 152 |
1979 |
146 |
Establishing a Governor's Management Task Force, and Defining its Powers and Duties. |
| 153 |
1979 |
146 |
Authorizing the Executive Office of Communities and Development to Apply for Federal Aid for Fuel Assistance to Low-Income Families. |
| 154 |
1979 |
152 |
Amending 2 EO 151 re the Judicial Nominating Commission. Revoked by 2 EO 223. |
| 155 |
1979 |
152 |
Establishing a Governor's Commission to Simplify Rules and Regulation, and Defining its Powers and Duties. |
| 156 |
1979 |
153 |
Reorganizing the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and Redefining its Powers and Duties. Amended by 2 EO 161. Revoked by 2 EO 230. |
| 157 |
1979 |
153 |
Establishing State Policy re the Allocation and Use of Federal Grants Under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1975 (29 USC 801 et seq.).[Note: This law was repealed and replaced by PL 97-300, which was subsequently repealed and replaced by PL 105-220]. |
| 158 |
1979 |
157 |
Revoking 2 EO 121 and reassigning the functions of the Social and Economic Opportunity Council to the Division of Social and Economic Opportunity. |
| 159 |
1979 |
157 |
Establishing a Governor's Advisory Committee on Children and the Family, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
| 160 |
1979 |
164 |
Establishing Emergency Regulations re the Distribution of Gasoline During National Energy Shortage. |
| 161 |
1979 |
165 |
Amending 2 EO 156 re Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. |
| 162 |
1979 |
171 |
Establishing a Governor's Advisory Committee on Veteran's Affairs, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Amended by 2 EO 177. Superseded by 2 EO 278. |
| 163 |
1979 |
165 |
Establishing Further Emergency Regulations re the Distribution of Gasoline During the National Energy Shortage; Sales of Gasoline by Motorists. |
| 164 |
1979 |
168 |
Amending 2 EO 123 re the Local Government Advisory Committee. |
| 165 |
1979 |
170 |
Requiring the Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission and the Division of Marine Fisheries to Develop a Comprehensive Fisheries Policy for the Commonwealth Under the Federal Fisheries Management and Conservation Act of 1976. |
| 166 |
1979 |
171 |
Providing for the Establishment of an Electronic Data Processing Center and Planning Unit in the Executive Office for Administration and Finance. |
| 166A |
1979 |
174 |
Establishing a Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, and Defining its Powers and Criminal Justice as the State Agency to Implement the State Juvenile Justice Plan Under the Federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-415). Rescinded by 2 EO 204. |
| 167 |
1979 |
174 |
Establishing a Development Permit Coordination Office in the Governor's Development Office, and Defining its Powers and Duties; Regulating State Agency Applications for Federal Funds. |
| 168 |
1979 |
174 |
Requiring State Permit-Granting and Regulatory Agencies to Provide Certain Information and Materials to the Governor's Commission to Simplify Rules and Regulations. |
| 169 |
1979 |
174 |
Establishing a Massachusetts Foreign Business Council in the Governor's Office, and Defining its Powers and Duties. |
| 170 |
1979 |
188 |
Establishing a Governor's Task Force on Automobile Theft, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Amended by 2 EO 171. |
| 171 |
1979 |
190 |
Amending 2 EO 170. |
| 172 |
1979 |
190 |
Taking Over the Direction and Control of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation During a Fiscal Emergency, and Designating the MBTA Board of Directors as Gubernatorial Agents to Administer the Authority. |
| 173 |
1980 |
195 |
Establishing a Governor's Committee on Property Tax Relief, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Amended by 2 EO 182. |
| 174 |
1980 |
195 |
Establishing Advisory Committees to Assist in Implementing the Recommendations of the Governor's Management Task Force, and Defining Their Powers and Duties. |
| 175 |
1980 |
201 |
Amending 2 EO 132 re the Governor's Advisory Committee on Computer and Data Processing. Rescinded and replaced by 2 EO 231. |
| 176 |
1980 |
205 |
Establishing a Special Commission on the Laws and Regulations Governing the Alcoholic Beverage Industry, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
| 177 |
1980 |
208 |
Amending 2 EO 162 re the Governor's Advisory Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Superseded by 2 EO 278. |
| 178 |
1980 |
213 |
Amending 2 EO 151 re the Judicial Nominating Commission. Revoked by 2 EO 223. |
| 179 |
1980 |
220 |
Establishing a Task Force on Electric Utility Fuel Costs, and Defining its Powers and Duties. |
| 180 |
1980 |
222 |
State Office White Paper Recycling Program. |
| 181 |
1980 |
224 |
Defining Barrier Beaches, and Providing for the Administration of State and Federal Aid Therefor; Regulating the Management of Such Beaches Owned by the State. |
| 182 |
1980 |
225 |
Amending 2 EO 173 re the Governor's Committee on Property Tax Relief. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
| 183 |
1980 |
225 |
Establishing a Government Service Careers Program and Administrative Unit in the Division of Personnel Administration; Defining the Objectives of Such Program; Defining the Powers and Duties of the Director of the Government Services Careers Program (an office created by this EO). |
| 184 |
1980 |
225 |
Establishing a Governor's Task Force on Probate and Family Court Procedures, and Defining its Powers and Duties. |
| 185 |
1980 |
229 |
Establishing a Bay State Skills Commission, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Amended by 2 EO 192. Revoked by 2 EO 219. |
| 186 |
1980 |
235 |
Establishing a Governor's Task Force on Juvenile Crime, and Defining its Powers and Duties. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
| 187 |
1980 |
236 |
Mandating That Secretariats of the Commonwealth Define the Scope, Intent, and Purpose of Regulations Being Adopted as Part of All Existing and Newly-Promulgated Regulations, and Resolve Any Inter-Agency Regulatory Conflicts. |
| 188 |
1980 |
236 |
Amending 2 EO 132 re the Governor's Advisory Committee on Computers and Data Processing. Rescinded and replaced by 2 EO 231. |
| 189 |
1980 |
237 |
Declaring a State of Emergency re the Financing and Continued Operation of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority; Taking Control of the Authority, and Placing its Management in the Secretary of Transportation and Construction and the MBTA Board of Directors; Authorizing the Authority to Spend Not More Than $41 Million in Excess of the Budget Authorized by the MBTA Advisory Board for Fiscal 1980. |
| 190 |
1980 |
243 |
Regulating Off-Road Vehicle ("dune-buggy") Operation on Public Lands Containing Coastal Wetlands Resources. |
| 191 |
1981 |
245 |
Declaring that a natural gas emergency exists in the Commonwealth. |
| 192 |
1981 |
245 |
Providing for the increases in the membership of the Bay State Skills Commission. Amending EO 185. Revoked by 2 EO 219. |
| 193 |
1981 |
254 |
Seeking to mitigate the conversion of state-owned agricultural land to other use. |
| 194 |
1981 |
260 |
Creating the Governor's Purchasing Advisory Committee to review laws governing purchasing by the Commonwealth. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
| 195 |
1981 |
260 |
Establishing new guidelines for vendor contracts, including provision for state auditing of all vendor records held pertaining to state contracts. |
| 196 |
1981 |
262 |
Creating the Governor's Advisory Council on Small Business. Revoked by 2 EO 256. |
| 197 |
1981 |
265 |
Creating the Taunton State Hospital Advisory Committee. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
| 198 |
1981 |
271 |
Designating that the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration be within the Executive Office of Manpower Affairs, but not subject to its jurisdiction. |
| 199 |
1981 |
276 |
Establishing the Massachusetts Block Grant Task Force. Amended by 2 EO 206. Revoked by 2 EO 383. |
