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Committee adopts PCS to let nonresidents sit for CPA exam and enable national background checks
Summary
A committee-passed committee substitute for House Bill 2736 would remove a residency requirement to sit for the CPA exam and change language to permit national background checks that were previously placed in statute but not implemented, the sponsor said.
Representative Kendrick presented a committee substitute to House Bill 2736 that would remove the residency requirement to sit for the CPA exam and add language permitting national background checks. Kendrick said the CPA exam is a national test taken in all 50 states and that removing the residency requirement would allow students studying outside Oklahoma to sit for the exam and have their results treated as passing in Oklahoma without a new application process.
Kendrick also said national background checks were added to statute in 2010 but had not been implemented; the substitute would adjust statutory language to allow the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) to proceed with national checks.
The committee adopted the PCS without recorded objection, moved the bill, and later the committee clerk recorded the vote and declared the bill to pass in committee.
Votes at a glance: House Bill 2736 (PCS) — committee adopted the PCS and recorded the committee vote as 9 ayes, 0 nays.
