PAWS Act of 2019

Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers Act of 2019 or the PAWS Act of 2019

This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs to veterans with mental illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder, regardless of whether they have a mobility impairment.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3147 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3147

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
   Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs to veterans with mental 
            illnesses who do not have mobility impairments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2019

 Mr. Stivers (for himself, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Rutherford, and 
  Mr. Waltz) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
   Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs to veterans with mental 
            illnesses who do not have mobility impairments.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Puppies Assisting Wounded 
Servicemembers Act of 2019'' or the ``PAWS Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO PROVIDE SERVICE 
              DOGS TO VETERANS WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES WHO DO NOT HAVE 
              MOBILITY IMPAIRMENTS.

    Section 1714 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) The Secretary may provide a service dog to a veteran under 
subsection (c)(3) regardless of whether the veteran has a mobility 
impairment.''.
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