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Tennessee Valley Authority Transparency Act of 2025

This bill revises the duties of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors to include holding public meetings at least four times each year. The board must provide public notice at least six days before such a meeting, unless the meeting is designated as an emergency. TVA, a federally owned electric utility corporation, provides low-cost electricity in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. It also provides flood control, navigation, and land management for the Tennessee River system. 

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1373 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1373


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2025

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 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:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.