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House Bill 1373
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Tennessee Valley Authority Transparency Act of 2025
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H. R. 1373 (Reported-in-House)

Union Calendar No. 109

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1373

[Report No. 119–140]


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

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 14, 2025

Mr. Burchett (for himself and Mr. Cohen) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

June 5, 2025

Additional sponsor: Ms. Lee of Nevada

June 5, 2025

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 14, 2025]

A BILL

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.”.

Union Calendar No. 109

119th CONGRESS
     1st Session
H. R. 1373
[Report No. 119–140]
A BILL
To require certain meetings of the Tennessee Valley Authority to be transparent and open to the public, and for other purposes.
June 5, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed