PEARL Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires Customs and Border Protection within 60 days to establish a three-year pilot program adopting dogs from local shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP's Support Canine Program.
Who Benefits and How
CBP personnel could benefit from an expanded support-dog program, and local animal shelters could benefit from having more dogs adopted into a federal working-support role.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Customs and Border Protection must stand up and manage the pilot program, including the training and integration of shelter dogs into the support canine program.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the CBP Commissioner, to establish the pilot program within 60 days.
- Directs the program to adopt dogs from local animal shelters.
- Requires those dogs to be trained as support dogs for CBP's Support Canine Program.
- Terminates the pilot program three years after establishment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires Customs and Border Protection within 60 days to establish a three-year pilot program adopting dogs from local shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP's Support Canine Program.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, Animal Welfare
Primary Purpose
Requires Customs and Border Protection within 60 days to establish a three-year pilot program adopting dogs from local shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP's Support Canine Program.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- CBP personnel and local shelter dogs selected for training as support canines
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Customs and Border Protection administrators responsible for implementing the pilot
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4786)
Mr. Guest moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 268.
Stakeholder Effects
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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