2025 Board of Accountancy Legislative Session Breakdown
Join us at the Oregon Board of Accountancy during the 2025 Legislative Session by looking at the bills up for review from the Board of Accountancy. This year, bills reflect the desire to empower future CPAs, create more opportunities for accounting students, protect CPA licensing mobility and modify the laws regulating public accountancy.
SB 796 - Allows the Oregon Board of Accountancy to create a grant program to provide scholarships for students seeking accounting degrees in college or individuals who wish to become certified public accountants in Oregon. Check out the one page summary here.
Status: Introduced
SB 797 - Modifies laws regulating public accounting professionals. Check out the one page summary here.
Status: Introduced
HB 5001 - Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected ort received by the Oregon Board of Accountancy.
Status: Introduced
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