Sec. 538. ### (a)
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## SEC. 538 ###
(a)The Secretary of Homeland Security (in this section referred to as the “Secretary”) shall, on a bimonthly basis beginning immediately after the date of enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the number of noncitizens anticipated to arrive at the southwest border of the United States. ###
(b)The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, the estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)— ####
(1)cover the current fiscal year and the following fiscal year; ####
(2)include a breakout by demographics, to include single adults, family units, and unaccompanied children; ####
(3)undergo an independent validation and verification review; ####
(4)are used to inform policy planning and budgeting processes within the Department of Homeland Security; and ####
(5)are included in the budget materials submitted to Congress for each fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act and in support of— #####
(A)the President’s annual budget request pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code; #####
(B)any supplemental funding request submitted to Congress; #####
(C)any reprogramming and transfer notification pursuant to section 503 of this Act; and #####
(D)such budget materials shall include— ######
(i)the most recent bimonthly estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a); ######
(ii)a description and quantification of the estimates used to justify funding requests for Department programs related to border security, immigration enforcement, and immigration services; ######
(iii)a description and quantification of the anticipated workload and requirements resulting from such estimates; and ######
(iv)a confirmation as to whether the budget requests for impacted agencies were developed using the same estimates. ###
(c)The Secretary shall share the bimonthly estimates developed pursuant to subsection
(a)with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. ###
(d)If the bimonthly estimates described in subsection
(b)are not provided for the purposes described, the reprogramming and transfer authority provided in section 503 of this Act shall be suspended until such time as the required estimates are provided to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.