A House bill that would fundamentally disassemble the Patriot Act has begun its course through the House, thanks to a bipartisan duo calling for an end to “dragnet surveillance” in the United States.

Introduced Tuesday by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), the Surveillance State Repeal Act would, as its name suggests, repeal the Patriot Act along with the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The bill would also prohibit the government from compelling Internet service providers to secretly permit access to their data streams through the issuance of secret warrants, a practice currently enabled by 2008 revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

“The warrantless collection of millions of personal communications from innocent Americans is a direct violation of our constitutional right to privacy,” Pocan said via a release on his congressional website. “Revelations about the NSA’s programs reveal the extraordinary extent to which the program has invaded Americans’ privacy. I reject the notion that we must sacrifice liberty for security- we can live in a secure nation which also upholds a strong commitment to civil liberties. This legislation ends the NSA’s dragnet surveillance practices, while putting provisions in place to protect the privacy of American citizens through real and lasting change.”

While the bill has little chance of making it to President Obama’s desk so he can veto it, its several features may serve as a parts bin for reform efforts as the Patriot Act comes due for another round of reauthorizations in June.

“[A]dvocates might be hoping that their firm opposition to government spying will seem more attractive in coming weeks, as lawmakers race to beat a June 1 deadline for reauthorizing portions of the Patriot Act,” The Hill reported Tuesday.

“Reformers have eyed that deadline as their last best chance for reforming some controversial NSA programs, after an effort failed in the Senate last year.”