YourVoice.Now Summary
Workers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityCustoms and Border Protection would adopt shelter dogs as support dogs for staff — a three-year test.
Workers & Jobs
Customs and Border Protection would adopt dogs from local animal shelters and train them as support dogs for its own workers. The agency would have 60 days to get the program going.
Transparency & Accountability
The pilot would shut down three years after it starts. Congress would have to pass a new law to keep it running longer.
More about this bill
Most people would see no change in daily life. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would start adopting dogs from local animal shelters. The dogs would be trained as support dogs for CBP staff. CBP would have to start the program within 60 days of the bill becoming law. It would be a test run, not a permanent one. The program would end three years after it starts. The bill does not set aside money for it.
Congressional Summary
Providing Emotional Assistance with Relief and Love Act or the PEARL ActThis 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.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-03-12
- Date Added
- 2026-04-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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