Sec. 4. Reporting and evaluation
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In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate ; the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate ; the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives . Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and publish on a publicly accessible website a report describing— the level of compliance of each relevant immigration court with the requirements described in section 240D of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added by section 2(a); corrective actions the Attorney General is taking or plans to take to ensure that any relevant immigration court that is not in compliance with the requirements referred to in paragraph
(1)expeditiously achieves such compliance; training that has been provided to judges assigned to the Children’s Court (as defined in such section 240D); the number of unaccompanied alien children’s cases pending before the Children’s Court; the number of unaccompanied alien children’s cases receiving final decisions in the Children’s Court during the reporting period, disaggregated by— decision type, including orders of removal, grants of relief, dismissals, and terminations; and whether the children were represented by an attorney at the time they received the final decisions; unaccompanied alien children’s appearance rates at hearings before the Children’s Court, disaggregated by whether the children were represented by an attorney at the time of such hearings; and any immigration court resources conserved by the establishment and administration of specialized children’s dockets. Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and publish on a public website a report evaluating— the Attorney General’s compliance with the requirements described in section 240D of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added by section 2(a) across the Children’s Court as a whole and disaggregated by relevant immigration courts; and the effectiveness of the Children’s Court in— upholding fairness and due process in unaccompanied alien children’s proceedings; and limiting adjudication redundancy between the Executive Office for Immigration Review and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.