IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1373 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 10, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works 
AN ACT 
To require certain meetings of the Tennessee Valley Author-
ity to be transparent and open to the public, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tennessee Valley Au-
thority 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 sub-
committee 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 con-
duct or disposition of official business of 
the 
Corporation, 
notwithstanding 
sub-
section (a)(2) of such section. 
‘‘(ii) NOTICE OF MEETINGS.— 
‘‘(I) 
PUBLICATION.—For 
pur-
poses of section 552b of title 5, 
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United States Code, public announce-
ment of meetings shall include publi-
cation on the website of the Board. 
‘‘(II) EMERGENCY
MEETINGS.— 
Notwithstanding section 552b(e)(1) of 
title 5, United States Code, the re-
quirement to make public announce-
ment at least one week prior to a 
meeting shall not apply if the chair-
man of the Board designates the 
meeting as an emergency special 
meeting. 
‘‘(iii) PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMA-
TION.—The Board shall publish on the 
website of the Board any information re-
quired to be disclosed or made available to 
the public, or publicly certified, under sec-
tion 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 per-
taining to such portion of a meeting, the 
Board may make a determination in ac-
cordance with such section not to disclose 
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to the public under such section the fol-
lowing information: 
‘‘(I) Information containing or 
relating to power availability requests. 
‘‘(II) Information containing or 
relating to contract negotiations, in-
cluding labor relations and procure-
ment actions, the disclosure of which 
would imperil or compromise the com-
petitive position of the Corporation.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 9, 2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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