Did the "USA PATRIOT" act really just get expanded?

I stumbled on something that I find hard to believe ... it's not being picked up by the mainstream media, but it has found its way onto kuro5hin, Wired News, and there are various other references in a Google Search — it looks like the same day the story broke about Saddam's capture*, Bush quietly signed HR 2417 into law which expands the USA PATRIOT act. Some are calling it the dreaded "Patriot II" that no sane person could possibly be in favor of. (But the mainstream media doesn't have a single mention of it — a comparable search on Google News returns a result from "Conspiracy Planet" and another from Pravda — hardly mainstream!) What gives?

* For an even stranger trip, which I won't comment on, Google for "Yellow Dates"