Congress moves to repeal post-9/11 surveillance law entirely
H.R. 3245 — American Privacy Restoration Act · Filed by Anna Luna (R-FL) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced May 7, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill repeals the entire USA PATRIOT Act and restores all laws it amended to their pre-PATRIOT Act form as of October 25, 2001. This would eliminate post-9/11 surveillance authorities including bulk phone records collection, roving wiretaps, and expanded search powers, returning surveillance law to its pre-2001 baseline.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to repeal a major post-9/11 surveillance statute and restore pre-PATRIOT Act law. It is a direct, unambiguous legislative reversal with no hidden mechanisms or riders.
What the text implies
- Repealing the PATRIOT Act would eliminate Section 215 (bulk phone records collection), Section 206 (roving wiretaps), Section 505 (National Security Letters), and other authorities currently used by FBI, NSA, and DEA — a major operational constraint on federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
- The restoration to October 25, 2001 law would affect dozens of statutes across Title 18 (criminal procedure), Title 50 (national security), and other codes — the full scope depends on the specific amendments made by the PATRIOT Act, which are not restated here but are public record.
- This bill does not address state-level surveillance law or private-sector data collection — only federal statutory authorities granted by the PATRIOT Act.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens regain privacy protections against bulk surveillance, roving wiretaps, and expanded government search powers that the PATRIOT Act authorized. The bill restores legal constraints on law enforcement and intelligence agencies that existed before 9/11.
Named in the bill
USA PATRIOT Act, Public Law 107–56, FBI, NSA, DEA, Department of Justice, House Committee on Armed Services
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
- May 7, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 7, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 4 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $120,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 2 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Anna Luna, the sponsor, reported $137,030 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Allied Universal Security Services LLC — $120,000 on 2 filings
- Cornerstone Government Affairs Obo Allied Universal Security Services LLC — $0 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 15, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (283 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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