PEARL Act

Providing Emotional Assistance with Relief and Love Act or the PEARL Act

This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish a pilot program to adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP’s Support Canine Program. Support dogs are used for grief assistance, trauma mitigation, and morale.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3965 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3965

 To establish in U.S. Customs and Border Protection a pilot program to 
 adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as support dogs, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2025

 Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas (for himself, Mr. Correa, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
    Thanedar, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. 
 Moskowitz, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. De La Cruz, 
 and Mr. Kennedy of New York) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish in U.S. Customs and Border Protection a pilot program to 
 adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as support dogs, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Providing Emotional Assistance with 
Relief and Love Act'' or the ``PEARL Act''.

SEC. 2. CBP SUPPORT DOG PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting 
through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 
shall establish in CBP a pilot program to adopt dogs from local animal 
shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP's Support Canine 
Program.
    (b) Duration.--The pilot program under subsection (a) shall 
terminate three years after the date of its establishment.
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