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Title V — General Provisions—this Act

116th Congress · Approved Jul 1, 2019 · 133 Stat. 1018

TITLE V General Provisions—this Act

Sec. 501.

Each amount appropriated or made available by this Act is in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year involved.

Sec. 502.

No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.

Sec. 503.

Unless otherwise provided for by this Act, the additional amounts appropriated by this Act to appropriations accounts shall be available under the authorities and conditions applicable to such appropriations accounts for fiscal year 2019.

Sec. 504.

Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or rescinded or transferred, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits such designations to the Congress.

Sec. 505.

Any amount appropriated by this Act, designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and subsequently so designated by the President, and transferred pursuant to transfer authorities provided by this Act shall retain such designation.

Sec. 506.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the number of asylum officers and immigration judges, including temporary immigration judges, and the corresponding number of support staff necessary—
(1)
to fairly and effectively make credible fear determinations with respect to individuals within family units and unaccompanied alien children;
(2)
to ensure that the credible fear determination and asylum interview is completed not later than 20 days after the date on which a family unit is apprehended; and
(3)
to fairly and effectively review appeals of credible fear determinations with respect to individuals within family units and unaccompanied alien children.
In addition, the report shall determine if there is any physical infrastructure such as hearing or courtroom space needed to achieve these goals.
This Act may be cited as the “Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019”.