CalCPA helps ease practice privilege regs.

In recognition of the unintended consequences of its practice privilege implementation, the California Board of Accountancy took several recent actions to provide relief to out-of-state CPAs who have experienced difficulty complying with California's new law.

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At its March 17 meeting, the CBA voted to support CalCPA-sponsored legislation, AB 1868 (Bermudez), which now contains the provisions approved by the CBA. Download a CBA Special Notice on Practice Privilege at www.dca.ca.gov/cba/notices/pp-4.pdf.

AB 1868 was heard by the Assembly Business & Professions Committee April 4 and passed on a 9-0 vote. At press time, the bill was headed to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations.

CalCPA COO Loretta Doon sent a letter to members Feb. 23 detailing the changes, which can be found at www.calcpa.org/members/GR/PracticePrivilege.html.

Additionally, the AICPA has several resources for members with state licensing requirement questions, including a practice privilege hotline, [phone]; an e-mail address, [e-mail]; and a website, www.aicpa.org/map.