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Tennessee Valley Authority Transparency Act of 2025

Introduced Feb 14, 2025

Latest action (Jun 10, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Referred to
Environment and Public Works Committee Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Policy area
Energy
Legislative subjects (2)
Government ethics and transparency, public corruptionTennessee Valley Authority

Summary

This bill requires the Tennessee Valley Authority Board to comply with federal open meeting requirements. The bill expands what constitutes a "meeting" under federal law to include all deliberations of Board members and committees, not just formal action meetings. The TVA must publish meeting announcements and publicly available meeting information on its website. The bill allows emergency meetings to be called without the standard one-week public notice requirement if designated by the Board chairman. The TVA may keep confidential certain information about power requests and contract negotiations to protect its competitive interests.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors

Actions (15)
  1. Jun 10, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. · senate
  2. Jun 9, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  3. Jun 9, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2554) · house
  4. Jun 9, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2554)
  5. Jun 9, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1373. · house
  6. Jun 9, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2554-2555) · house
  7. Jun 9, 2025 Mr. Ezell moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
  8. Jun 5, 2025 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 109. · house
  9. Jun 5, 2025 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 119-140. · house
  10. Apr 2, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. · house
  11. Apr 2, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  12. Apr 2, 2025 Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Discharged · house
  13. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. · house
  14. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
  15. Feb 14, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (4)
  • Referred in Senate · Jun 10, 2025
  • Engrossed in House · Jun 9, 2025
  • Reported in House · Jun 5, 2025
  • Introduced in House · Feb 14, 2025

Full text

AN ACT

To require certain meetings of the Tennessee Valley Authority to be transparent and open to the public, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Tennessee Valley Authority Transparency Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. TRANSPARENCY AND AVAILABILITY OF MEETINGS.

Section 2(g)(2) of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 is amended to read as follows:

“(2) Meetings.—

“(A) In general.—The Board shall meet at least 4 times each year.

“(B) Transparency.—

“(i) Open meetings.—For purposes of applying the requirements of section 552b of title 5, United States Code, to the Board, the term ‘meeting’ shall include all deliberations of the members of the Board, a committee of the Board, and a subcommittee of the Board, including any such deliberations that are not scheduled for the purpose of taking an action that will determine or result in the joint conduct or disposition of official business of the Corporation, notwithstanding subsection

(a)(2) of such section.

“(ii) Notice of meetings.—

“(I) Publication.—For purposes of section 552b of title 5, United States Code, public announcement of meetings shall include publication on the website of the Board.

“(II) Emergency meetings.— Notwithstanding section 552b(e)(1) of title 5, United States Code, the requirement to make public announcement at least one week prior to a meeting shall not apply if the chairman of the Board designates the meeting as an emergency special meeting.

“(iii) Publicly available information.— The Board shall publish on the website of the Board any information required to be disclosed or made available to the public, or publicly certified, under section 552b of title 5, United States Code.

“(iv) Exemptions.—For purposes of applying section 552b of title 5, United States Code, to any portion of a meeting of the Board, and to any information pertaining to such portion of a meeting, the Board may make a determination in accordance with such section not to disclose to the public under such section the following information:

“(I) Information containing or relating to power availability requests.

“(II) Information containing or relating to contract negotiations, including labor relations and procurement actions, the disclosure of which would imperil or compromise the competitive position of the Corporation.”.

Passed the House of Representatives June 9, 2025.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1373

AN ACT

To require certain meetings of the Tennessee Valley Authority to be transparent and open to the public, and for other purposes.

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