Federal, State, and local public and private agencies 
providing benefits, to be used solely in making deter-
minations of eligibility for benefits pursuant to sec-
tion 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 
1641). 
(5) ADJUDICATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR RE-
LIEF.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Government entities 
adjudicating applications for relief under the 
immigration laws and government personnel 
carrying duties required under section 101(i)(1) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(i)(1)) may, with the prior written 
consent of the noncitizen involved, communicate 
with nonprofit, nongovernmental victims’ serv-
ice providers for the sole purpose of assisting 
victims in obtaining victim services from pro-
grams with expertise in working with immigrant 
victims. Agencies receiving referrals under this 
subparagraph are bound by the restrictions 
under this section. 
(B) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this paragraph may be construed as affecting 
the ability of an applicant to designate a safe 
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organization through which governmental agen-
cies may communicate with the applicant. 
(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Subsections (a), (b), 
and (c) shall not be construed as preventing— 
(1) disclosure of information in connection with 
judicial review of a determination in a manner that 
protects the confidentiality of such information; or 
(2) the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices from disclosing to the chair and ranking mem-
ber of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
or to the chair and ranking member of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representa-
tives, for the exercise of congressional oversight au-
thority, information on closed cases described in this 
section in a manner that— 
(A) protects the confidentiality of such in-
formation; and 
(B) omits personally identifying informa-
tion (including locational information about in-
dividuals). 
SEC. 4. REPORTING AND EVALUATION. 
(a) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term ‘‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate; 
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(2) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; 
(3) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(4) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after, the Attorney General shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees and publish on a publicly acces-
sible website a report describing— 
(1) the level of compliance of each relevant im-
migration court with the requirements described in 
section 240D of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act, as added by section 2(a); 
(2) 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) expedi-
tiously achieves such compliance; 
(3) training that has been provided to judges 
assigned to the Children’s Court (as defined in such 
section 240D); 
(4) the number of unaccompanied alien chil-
dren’s cases pending before the Children’s Court; 
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(5) the number of unaccompanied alien chil-
dren’s cases receiving final decisions in the Chil-
dren’s 
Court 
during 
the 
reporting 
period, 
disaggregated by— 
(A) decision type, including orders of re-
moval, grants of relief, dismissals, and termi-
nations; and 
(B) whether the children were represented 
by an attorney at the time they received the 
final decisions; 
(6) unaccompanied alien children’s appearance 
rates at hearings before the Children’s Court, 
disaggregated by whether the children were rep-
resented by an attorney at the time of such hear-
ings; and 
(7) any immigration court resources conserved 
by the establishment and administration of special-
ized children’s dockets. 
(c) BIENNIAL EVALUATIONS.—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— 
(1) the Attorney General’s compliance with the 
requirements described in section 240D of the Immi-
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gration and Nationality Act, as added by section 
2(a) across the Children’s Court as a whole and 
disaggregated by relevant immigration courts; and 
(2) the effectiveness of the Children’s Court 
in— 
(A) upholding fairness and due process in 
unaccompanied alien children’s proceedings; 
and 
(B) limiting adjudication redundancy be-
tween the Executive Office for Immigration Re-
view and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, 
and the Department of Health and Human Services such 
sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act and the 
amendment made by this Act. 
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