HR 1373
Passed a chamber
Requires the Tennessee Valley Authority board to hold at least four meetings a year and to treat its deliberations as open meetings, with posted notices and limited exceptions for power availability requests and competitive contract matters.
Official title: Tennessee Valley Authority Transparency Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
14-FEB-2025
Referred
14-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
02-APR-2025
Reported
05-JUN-2025
On the calendar
05-JUN-2025
Passed
09-JUN-2025
Senate
Received
10-JUN-2025
- Requires the TVA board to meet at least four times each year.
- Applies open-meeting rules to all deliberations of the board and its committees and subcommittees, including deliberations not scheduled to take action.
- Requires meeting announcements and related public information to be posted on the board's website.
- Allows the board chairman to designate emergency special meetings, which are exempt from the one-week public notice requirement.
- Allows the board to close portions of meetings involving power availability requests or contract negotiations that would compromise TVA's competitive position.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (14-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 09-JUN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (House)
- Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee
- Environment and Public Works Committee (Senate)
Energy
■ 2 D
2 Democrats