[Report No. 119–140]
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
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
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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
meetingshall 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.