American Privacy Restoration Act

The American Privacy Restoration Act would repeal the USA PATRIOT Act and return the law to the way it read on October 25, 2001 (i.e., before the PATRIOT Act's amendments). In practical terms, this means undoing the expanded government surveillance and investigative authorities introduced by the PATRIOT Act and restoring the pre-9/11 baseline for the statutes that were amended by that act. The bill is introduced by Representative Luna and referred to multiple committees, signaling that it would touch a broad range of policy areas if enacted.