[Boainactive] Oregon Board of Accountancy Proposed Rules - Opportunity to Comment

[Rules * BOA]

Dear licensees, applicants and candidates,

Over the past year, the Oregon Board of Accountancy (Board) has worked with its stakeholders through the Laws and Rules Committee (LRC) to develop a broad range of rule revisions for the Board. The proposed revisions touch every aspect (and Division) of the Board's rules, including - but are not limited to - a special focus in Division 010 on the boundaries of what is (and is not) permissible work activity if licensed with an inactive or retired status license.  In addition, the changes in Division 030 rules include  adding individual licensees to the 45-day reporting requirement for lawsuits that currently only applies to registered firms, while clarifying the scope for what types of lawsuits firms and individuals must report.  In Division 050, the proposed rules no longer permit that firms can opt-out  of reporting peer review results to the Facilitated State Board Access web site, as part of a national movement toward more uniform rules on peer review oversight.

You have both a responsibility to stay informed about changes in the Board's rules, and an opportunity to comment on the proposed rules. They have been exposed effective today, and the Board's web site has been updated with:

1)     The text of the proposed rules<http://www.oregon.gov/boa/docs/Proposed%20Rule%20Amendments%20_All%20Divisions%202016.pdf>, together with a legislative history explaining the rationale for the proposed changes

2)     A guidance document in matrix format explaining how the Board is inclined to apply the proposed rules, one for inactive<http://www.oregon.gov/boa/docs/BOA-LRC-Inactive_Licensee_Guidance_Matrix.pdf> and another for retired<http://www.oregon.gov/boa/docs/BOA-LRC-Retired_Licensee_Matrix.pdf> status licensees
Your comments are welcome and encouraged by the Board on all three documents.  Any written comments must be submitted to this special e-mail address boa.rules at oregon.gov<mailto:boa.rules at oregon.gov> or by regular mail to Oregon Board of Accountancy, 3218 Pringle Rd SE #110, Salem, OR 97302, no later than 9:00 a.m. on Monday, October 17, 2016.  Alternatively, you may appear at the Board's Rulemaking Hearing (held at the Board offices at 3218 Pringle Road SE, Salem Oregon, 2nd Floor Conference Room) at 10:00 a.m. on October 17, 2016, and submit your comments into the oral comment record.

The Board will consider the oral and written comment record at its Board meeting on October 20 and 21, 2016.  The Board will then decide whether to adopt the rules as proposed, adopt them with revisions, or delay adoption and request that its LRC review the comment record and bring back recommendations to the Board, for consideration on December 5, 2016.  The proposed effective date for any final rules adopted by the Board from this process is January 1, 2017.

Thank you for your review of the proposed rules and your willingness to comment.

Sincerely,

John Lauseng, CPA
Vice Chair, Board of Accountancy
Chair, Laws and Rules Committee

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