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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 7744 (Engrossed in House) — Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for... · Sec. 217

Sec. 217.

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Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall provide a briefing and submit an initial, written obligation plan for funding provided under the heading U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in this or any other Act, including prior Acts, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which shall— be delineated by month, level II program, project, and activity, and pay and non-pay requirements; incorporate and delineate all funding sources available to U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to include unobligated carryover balances and fees; and contain data-driven assumptions for major contract costs, projected personnel levels, and operational and policy considerations. The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall provide monthly briefings and written updates to the plan required in subsection (a), which shall include, at a minimum, the following information as of the conclusion of the preceding month— actual obligations and expenditures, including prior year; carryover from prior year unobligated balances; resource projections for the remainder of the fiscal year; payroll projections for the remainder of the fiscal year, based on forecasted gains and losses; identification of any contracts with a period of performance extending beyond the current fiscal year; obligations and expenditures for specific domestic and international investigative mission areas, including countering fentanyl and child exploitation; the rate of operations for the Custody Operations, Alternatives to Detention, and Transportation and Removal Operations programs, projects, and activities, which shall include a projection of the exhaustion of funds based on current resources and operational levels; and the initial obligation plan as described in subsection (a), displayed unchanged for the purposes of comparison.
The monthly updates required by subsection
(b)shall be submitted no later than 15 days after the beginning of the month following the submission of the initial obligation plan as described in subsection (a). For an additional amount for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support—Executive Leadership and Oversight , $100,000, which shall be made available for Mission Support—Executive Leadership and Oversight on the sixteenth day of each month, in a total amount for the fiscal year not to exceed $700,000. Beginning 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, amounts in paragraph
(1)shall only be made available for obligation in a given month if the reporting requirements set forth in subsections
(a)and
(b)of this section are provided to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within the timeframe required pursuant to subsections
(a)and (c), respectively.
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