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Enforcement Advisory Committee approves May minutes; staff reports complaint, citation and probation statistics
Summary
The California Board of Accountancy Enforcement Advisory Committee approved minutes from its May meeting and heard enforcement statistics showing 4,350 complaints, nearly 5,700 case closures, about 1,900 citations and 52 licensees on probation. Committee liaison and enforcement staff also discussed pending rulemaking tied to Assembly Bill 1175.
Kathy Johnson, chair of the California Board of Accountancy Enforcement Advisory Committee, called the committee to order July 10 and led members in approving the minutes from the committee’s May 1, 2025, meeting.
The approval motion carried with eight votes in favor, one abstention. “I would I move for approval,” the chair said before the roll call. The motion was recorded as approved; Member Ben Town registered an abstention.
The meeting’s substantive portion consisted of a liaison report on pending legislation and an enforcement activity update. Nancy Corrigan, a member of the California Board of Accountancy, reported on the board’s May 15 meeting and on developments related to Assembly Bill 1175. Corrigan said the board has directed staff to prepare regulatory changes that would, if the bill becomes law, allow the board to recognize certain degrees and certificates as partial substitutes for education or experience requirements for licensure. “These discussions and directions were to help guide and inform future regulatory changes,” Corrigan said, and the board aims to initiate a rulemaking package no later than November.
Carrie O’Connor, enforcement chief for the board, presented an 11-month fiscal-year 2024–25 activity report with numeric case updates. O’Connor said the board received 4,350 complaints and that staff closed nearly 5,700 cases, with 99% of closures occurring within one year. “The average days to close investigations was…87 days,” she said, and the enforcement unit had 403 pending investigations at the time of the report, with one pending case open more than 24 months but still actively investigated.
On referrals and discipline, O’Connor reported that the board referred 26 matters to the Attorney General’s office, filed 33 pleadings and had 28 matters pending at the AG’s office. The board had taken action on 24 final disciplinary orders. On citations and fines, she said the board issued just over 1,900 citations, with 93% related to the board’s “20 and 12” continuing-education requirement. Staff received 248 citation-and-fine appeals and withdrew or modified 129 of those appeals, typically when appellants provided new mitigating evidence or demonstrated subsequent compliance.
Unlicensed-practice complaints numbered just over 1,800 during the reporting period, and staff closed more than 2,300 unlicensed-activity investigations. Regarding probation monitoring, O’Connor said that as of May 31 the board had 52 licensees on probation, including four new probationers since the last report, and that staff identified 24 probation violations, the majority for failure to submit required quarterly written reports.
There were no members of the public present in person or on WebEx for public comment. After the public-business portion concluded, the committee moved into closed session for matters listed on the agenda.
The committee is scheduled to meet again in person July 17.
