119-hr1373

[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.