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Board authorizes consent orders and strengthens enforcement focus on out‑of‑state and repeat review violations
Summary
The licensing and enforcement committees approved four candidate score extensions, multiple consent orders tied to contractor licensing referrals and a larger push to revise the discipline matrix and explore recovering investigative/legal costs from respondents.
The Tennessee State Board of Accountancy approved a collection of committee recommendations Tuesday that include candidate extensions, consent offers on review/compilation violations, and a directive to staff to revisit the board's discipline matrix and cost allocation practices.
The licensing committee moved to approve four individual requests for score or deadline extensions and the board adopted the committee recommendation by voice vote. The committee narrative and staff materials presented to the board identify the four cases as:
- Gabriel Bren: request to extend REG and AUD scores from an expiration date of 06/30/2025 to 08/31/2025 for documented medical treatment; committee recommended approval. - Michael Montgomery: request to extend REG and BEC from 06/30/2025 to 12/31/2025 after COVID‑era furloughs interrupted his qualifying experience; committee recommended approval. - Samuel Laws: request to extend REG from an expiration of 08/06/2025 to 12/31/2025 due to a heart condition and surgery; committee recommended approval. - Ziriga (foreign transcript evaluation via WES): staff noted the applicant's degrees from…
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