beds in State-licensed facilities in response to funding opportunity HHS–2017–ACF–ORR–ZU–1132, and of which not less than $185,000,000 shall be available for expansion grants to add beds in State-licensed facilities and open new State-licensed facilities, and for contract costs to acquire, activate, and operate facilities that will include small- and medium-scale hard-sided facilities for which the Secretary intends to seek State licensure in an effort to phase out the need for shelter beds in unlicensed facilities: Provided further , That not less than $100,000,000 of amounts pro- vided under this heading shall be used for post-release services, child advocates, and legal services: Provided further , That not less than $8,000,000 of amounts provided under this heading shall be used for the purposes of hiring additional Federal Field Special- ists and for increasing case management and case coordination services, with the goal of more expeditiously placing unaccompanied alien children with sponsors and reducing the length of stay in ORR custody: Provided further , That not less than $1,000,000 of amounts provided under this heading shall be used for the purposes of hiring project officers and program monitor staff dedicated to pursuing strategic improvements to the Unaccompanied Alien Chil- dren program and for the development of a discharge rate improve- ment plan which shall be submitted to the Committees on Appro- priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within 120 days of enactment of this Act: Provided further , That of the amounts provided under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be trans- ferred to ‘‘Office of the Secretary—Office of Inspector General’’ and shall remain available until expended for oversight of activities supported with funds appropriated under this heading: Provided further , That such amount is designated 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. 

SEC. 401. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall prioritize use of community-based residential care (including long-term and transitional foster care and small group homes) and shelter care other than large-scale institutional shelter facilities to house unaccompanied alien children in its custody. The Secretary shall prioritize State-licensed and hard-sided dor- mitories. 

SEC. 402. The Office of Refugee Resettlement shall ensure that its grantees and, to the greatest extent practicable, potential sponsors of unaccompanied alien children are aware of current law regarding the use of information collected as part of the sponsor suitability determination process. 

SEC. 403. (a) None of the funds provided by this or any prior appropriations Act may be used to reverse changes in procedures made by operational directives issued to providers by the Office of Refugee Resettlement on December 18, 2018, March 23, 2019, and June 10, 2019 regarding the Memorandum of Agreement on Information Sharing executed April 13, 2018. 

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary may make changes to such operational directives upon making a determination that such changes are necessary to prevent unaccompanied alien children from being placed in danger, and the Secretary shall pro- vide a written justification to Congress and the Inspector General 

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Determination. 

