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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear licensees, applicants and candidates,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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: <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The text of the
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/boa/docs/Proposed%20Rule%20Amendments%20_All%20Divisions%202016.pdf">
proposed rules</a>, together with a legislative history explaining the rationale for the proposed changes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A guidance document in matrix format explaining how the Board is inclined to apply the proposed rules, one for
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/boa/docs/BOA-LRC-Inactive_Licensee_Guidance_Matrix.pdf">
inactive</a> and another for <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/boa/docs/BOA-LRC-Retired_Licensee_Matrix.pdf">
retired</a> status licensees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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
<a href="mailto:boa.rules@oregon.gov">boa.rules@oregon.gov</a> 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, 2<sup>nd</sup> Floor Conference Room) at 10:00 a.m. on October 17, 2016, and submit your comments into the oral comment record.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for your review of the proposed rules and your willingness to comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John Lauseng, CPA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vice Chair, Board of Accountancy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chair, Laws and Rules Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Let us know how we are doing by taking this quick survey:
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ORBOA">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ORBOA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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