This is both interesting and unrelated to the bill.
There is not an issue on this planet, down to "is it raining outside," on which I would trust Rand Paul. But I don't have to trust him when I can read the thing. It's only eighteen pages long. (On my phone, otherwise I'd link it.) Beyond that, there are plenty of organizations more than willing to weigh in on stuff like this; you don't have to take the legislator's word on it at all.
As a non-lawyer, I'd expect to miss something important from the legislative text.
Your point about relying on other organizations is a good one, though. I generally take this approach, but I wasn't expecting anything to have been published yet on such a new bill. It looks like the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and SPLC all issued positive press releases, though.
There is not an issue on this planet, down to "is it raining outside," on which I would trust Rand Paul. But I don't have to trust him when I can read the thing. It's only eighteen pages long. (On my phone, otherwise I'd link it.) Beyond that, there are plenty of organizations more than willing to weigh in on stuff like this; you don't have to take the legislator's word on it at all.