Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency Act
Sponsored By: Senator Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced
Summary
Would create a TVA "Report on Compensation" to increase disclosure about senior staff pay while carving out limits on public access.
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It would pair a board-produced report on management pay with exemptions that would restrict public release under federal open-records rules.
- TVA managers and executives: The TVA Board would be required to prepare a report listing the name, salary, and duties of every management-level employee and board member who earns at least the maximum pay for General Schedule grade GS-15.
- Public and journalists: Salary information in that report would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and from the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, limiting public access to those pay details.
- Oversight and legal updates: The Comptroller General would oversee and conduct TVA audits, and the bill would modernize references from the General Accounting Office and older Budget Act citations and make small wording changes to a bids subsection and section 14.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Comptroller-run TVA audits
This bill would require the Comptroller General to select and conduct audits of the Tennessee Valley Authority. It would update older agency names and federal statute references used for TVA audit rules. If enacted, this would increase independent federal oversight of TVA operations.
Limits public access to TVA pay
This bill would require the TVA Board to report managers and board members paid at or above the GS-15 top rate. Each listing would include the person's name, salary, and job duties. But salary information in or filed with that report would be exempt from FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3)) and from the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
TN • R
Cosponsors
Bill Hagerty
TN • R
Sponsored 4/8/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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