Blackburn, Hagerty Introduce Bill to Require Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Disclosure

Blackburn, Hagerty Introduce Bill to Require Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Disclosure
April 9, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
U.S. Senator
Marsha Blackburn
(R-Tenn.) released the following statement after introducing the
TVA Salary Transparency Act
with Senator
Bill Hagerty
(R-Tenn.).
The bill would ensure proper oversight of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by requiring reporting of salary information of employees making more than $123,041 per year or the maximum basic pay rate of a General Schedule Grade 15 (GS-15) federal employee:
“The government and public utilities owned by the government work for the American people – not the other way around,”
said Senator Blackburn.
“This legislation would provide critical transparency into the salaries of federal employees at the TVA by reinstating the requirement that TVA report this information to Congress.”
The
TVA Salary Transparency Act
would reinstate and modernize the TVA annual reporting requirements to Congress as well as a requirement eliminated by the
Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act
in 1995.
This legislation was
introduced
in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representatives
Steve Cohen
(D-Tenn.) and
Tim Burchett
(R-Tenn.).
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/4/jobs and economy/blackburn-hagerty-introduce-bill-to-require-tennessee-valley-authority-salary-disclosure