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Amends section 9 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act (16 U.S.C. 831h) by replacing the existing subsection (a) with new language titled 'Financial reporting' that (1) revises the report-on-compensation requirement, (2) adds an exemption for salary information from certain disclosure and reporting requirements, and (3) updates and modernizes wording in subsections (b), (c), and (d), including replacing references to the General Accounting Office with the Government Accountability Office and updating statutory cross‑references.
Conforming amendment to section 14 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act (16 U.S.C. 831m) by striking text from the last sentence (the amendment text indicates a strike in the last sentence but does not provide the struck text in this section).
Requires the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to produce a report listing all management‑level employees, executives, and Board members who earn at or above the maximum GS‑15 pay rate, and to include each person’s name, salary, and duties. The bill makes the salary information in that report explicitly exempt from public disclosure under FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3)) and from the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, and it updates certain report/audit wording to refer to the Comptroller General and the Government Accountability Office.
Amend Section 9 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 by replacing the section designation and the start of subsection (a) with a new heading and text titled '9 Financial reporting' and ' (a) Report on compensation'.
Require the Board to prepare a report describing the total number of Corporation employees at the management level or above (including all executives and Board members) who receive compensation equal to or greater than the maximum rate of basic pay for GS–15 of the General Schedule, and to include the name, salary, and duties of each such employee.
Declare that any information relating to salaries of Corporation employees contained in or filed with the report is exempt from disclosure under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3) and from the requirements of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (Public Law 117–263).
In subsection (b) of Section 9, strike existing text and insert new text beginning '(b) Bids All;'. (Text replacement noted in the section.)
In subsection (c) of Section 9, make multiple textual changes to replace references to 'he' and similar phrasing with 'the Comptroller General' (and his representatives), update references from 'General Accounting Office' to 'Government Accountability Office', and replace an older statute citation with 'sections 3526(a) and 3702(a) of title 31, United States Code'. These are editorial/conforming changes to audit and reporting language.
Who is affected and how:
TVA management, executives, and Board members: Must be included in the new report if their pay meets the GS‑15 threshold; their names, duties, and salary figures will be put into a TVA report. Salary figures are shielded from public disclosure by statute, which may protect individual privacy but reduce public transparency.
Tennessee Valley Authority (as an organization): Must prepare and maintain the specified report and comply with the new disclosure limitation; administrative burden is modest (collecting and reporting listed data) and no new funding is provided.
Public watchdogs, journalists, researchers, and members of the public: Will gain clearer information on which positions meet the pay threshold (names and duties), but they will not be able to access the salary figures through FOIA or under the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act. That narrows oversight capabilities related to compensation transparency.
Congressional and federal oversight entities: The bill updates statutory wording to explicitly reference the Comptroller General and the GAO, clarifying which audit/oversight authorities are named in the statute; however, the exemption for salary data limits public-access routes for those specific compensation figures (the bill does not explicitly remove GAO or Comptroller General access to audit information).
Overall effect: A narrow statutory change that increases the granularity of personnel reporting at the TVA while simultaneously creating a legal shield preventing public disclosure of salary amounts in that report. The change balances naming/duty transparency with restricted salary disclosure, and otherwise leaves TVA authorities and funding unchanged.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Introduced April 8, 2025 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress April 8, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Introduced in Senate