Sec. 536. ### (a)

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## SEC. 536 ###

(a)Not later than 10 days after the date on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Management of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the unfunded priorities, for the Department of Homeland Security and separately for each departmental component, for which discretionary funding would be classified as budget function 050. ###

(b)Each report under this section shall specify, for each such unfunded priority— ####

(1)a summary description, including the objectives to be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in whole or in part); ####

(2)the description, including the objectives to be achieved if such priority is funded (whether in whole or in part); ####

(3)account information, including the following (as applicable): #####

(A)appropriation account; and #####

(B)program, project, or activity name; and ####

(4)the additional number of full-time or part-time positions to be funded as part of such priority. ###

(c)In this section, the term “unfunded priority”, in the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that— ####

(1)is not funded in the budget referred to in subsection (a); ####

(2)is necessary to fulfill a requirement associated with an operational or contingency plan for the Department; and ####

(3)would have been recommended for funding through the budget referred to in subsection

(a)if— #####

(A)additional resources had been available for the budget to fund the requirement; #####

(B)the requirement has emerged since the budget was formulated; or #####

(C)the requirement is necessary to sustain prior-year investments.