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House Homeland Security panel advances bill to create CBP support-canine pilot using shelter dogs
Summary
The House Homeland Security Committee favorably reported HR 3965, the “Pearl Act,” to establish a multi-year pilot for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to adopt and train shelter dogs as support canines to assist frontline personnel.
The House Committee on Homeland Security voted to report favorably HR 3965, the Providing Emotional Assistance with Relief and Love or Pearl Act, which would authorize a three-year pilot for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to adopt dogs from local animal shelters and train them as support canines for frontline personnel.
Representative Tony Gonzales, sponsor of the bill, told the committee the pilot is designed to expand CBP’s existing support-canine program and provide “second opportunities for our many canines at local animal shelters.” Gonzales said CBP personnel have…
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