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PEARL Act

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-06-12
Introduced
12
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Tony Gonzales
Tony Gonzales
Republican · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 99.1% (427 recorded votes)

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Cosponsors (12)

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

2025-11-20

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Plain-English Summary

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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