PUBLIC COMPANY ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT BOARD

Bills and resolutions

Budget: clarify that the standard setting body designated pursuant to the Securities Act, Securities Investor Protection Corp., and Public Accounting Oversight Board funding is not subject to the sequester (see S. 1780), S8565 [9DE]

Business and industry: prohibit from requiring public companies to use specific auditors or the use of different auditors on a rotating basis (see S. 1526), S6646 [19SE] (see H.R. 1564), H2025 [15AP]

——— promote transparency by making disciplinary proceedings open to the public (see S. 848), S3029 [25AP]

Remarks in House

Business and industry: prohibit from requiring public companies to use specific auditors or the use of different auditors on a rotating basis (H.R. 1564), H4182–H4184 [8JY]

SEC: ensure that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, and other national securites associations comply with the same cost-benefit analyses as the SEC, H2744, H2745 [17MY]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: promote transparency by making disciplinary proceedings open to the public (S. 848), S3041 [25AP]

Reports filed

Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 1564) (H. Rept. 113–142), H4212 [8JY]

Statements

Legislative Proposals To Relieve the Red Tape Burden on Investors and Job Creators: Anne Simpson, California Public Employees’ Retirement System, H7481 [4DE]

Texts of

H.R. 1564, Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, H4182 [8JY]