Sec. 7. Transparency measures
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The Secretary shall update weekly and make publically available on the website of the Department of Homeland Security— five years of historical data of H–2B nonimmigrant petitions received and approved and the number of visas for H–2B nonimmigrants that were not subject to the statutory cap; the annual target number of beneficiaries to be issued visas as H–2B nonimmigrants for the fiscal year; the number of petitions for H–2B nonimmigrants approved by the Department in each half of the fiscal year, including the aggregated number of beneficiaries contained in the approved petitions; the number of petitions pending approval or denial by the Secretary; the number of visas that are not exempt from the statutory cap issued by the Secretary of State; disclosure of the methodology and raw data used to determine when the statutory cap has been reached, including notification whenever the methodology to make this determination changes at any time during the fiscal year; and the number of petitions for H–2B nonimmigrants that have received conditional approval once the statutory cap has been met, including the aggregated number of beneficiaries contained in the conditionally approved petitions.