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116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 881
To require certain meetings of the Tennessee Valley Authority to be
transparent and open to the public, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 30, 2019
Mr. BURCHETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
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-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tennessee Valley Au-
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thority Transparency Act of 2019’’.
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SEC. 2. TRANSPARENCY AND AVAILABILITY OF MEETINGS.
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Section 2(g)(2) of the Tennessee Valley Authority
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Act of 1933 is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘(2) MEETINGS.—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Board shall meet
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at least 4 times each year.
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‘‘(B) TRANSPARENCY.—The Board shall,
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with respect to any meeting of the Board or a
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subcommittee of the Board for which a vote is
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not scheduled—
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‘‘(i) hold such meeting in public;
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‘‘(ii) provide public notice of no fewer
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than 6 calendar days, through the website
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of the Board, of any such meeting; and
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‘‘(iii) make publicly available the min-
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utes and summaries of any such meeting.
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‘‘(C) EMERGENCY
MEETINGS.—Subpara-
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graph (B)(ii) shall not apply if the chairman of
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the Board designates a meeting as an emer-
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gency special meeting.’’.
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