Sec. 563.
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The Secretary of Homeland Security may include, in the President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2017, submitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and accompanying justification materials, an account structure under which each appropriation under each agency heading either remains the same as fiscal year 2016 or falls within the following categories of appropriations: Operations and Support. Procurements, Construction, and Improvements. Research and Development.
Federal Assistance. The Under Secretary for Management, acting through the Chief Financial Officer, shall determine and provide centralized guidance to each agency on how to structure appropriations for purposes of subsection (a). Not earlier than October 1, 2016, the accounts designated under subsection
(a)may be established, and the Secretary of Homeland Security may execute appropriations of the Department as provided pursuant to such subsection, including any continuing appropriations made available for fiscal year 2017 before enactment of a regular appropriations Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security may transfer any appropriation made available to the Department of Homeland Security by any appropriations Acts to the accounts created pursuant to subsection
(c)to carry out the requirements of such subsection, and shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives within 5 days of each transfer. Not later than November 1, 2016, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish the preliminary baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities and submit the report specified in paragraph
(2)to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The report required in this subsection shall include— a delineation of the amount and account of each transfer made pursuant to subsection
(c)or (d); a table for each appropriation with a separate column to display the President’s budget proposal, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, adjustments made pursuant to the transfer authority in subsection
(c)or (d), and the fiscal year level; a delineation in the table for each appropriation, adjusted as described in paragraph (2), both by budget activity and program, project, and activity as detailed in the Budget Appendix; and an identification of funds directed for a specific activity. The Secretary shall not exercise the authority provided in subsections (c), (d), and
(e)unless, not later than April 1, 2016, the Chief Financial Officer has submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives— technical assistance on new legislative language in the account structure under subsection (a); comparison tables of fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017 in the account structure under subsection (a); cross-component comparisons that the account structure under subsection
(a)facilitates; a copy of the interim financial management policy manual addressing changes made in this Act; an outline of the financial management policy manual changes necessary for the account structure under subsection (a); proposed changes to transfer and reprogramming requirements, including technical assistance on legislative language; certification by the Chief Financial Officer that the Department’s financial systems can report in the new account structure; and a plan for training and implementation of the account structure under subsections
(a)and (c).