This bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), to set up a pilot program. CBP must adopt dogs from local animal shelters and train them as support dogs for CBP’s Support Canine Program. The pilot must be established within 60 days after the law is enacted and will end three years after it begins. The bill text does not provide further operational details.
If you are a CBP employee, the agency would run a short-term pilot to add trained shelter dogs as support animals. Local animal shelters could provide dogs for adoption into the program. The bill does not say which staff or locations will receive support dogs, how dogs will be chosen, or how training and placement decisions will be made.
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