Support CPA Advocacy
Your Voice Matters, Locally and Nationally
Advocacy is at the heart of your OSCPA membership. Together, we ensure that the CPA profession’s voice is strong, respected, and influential in Oregon and beyond.
Through the OSCPA Legislative Action Committee (LAC), grassroots involvement, and partnerships with the AICPA, members like you play a vital role in advancing the issues that affect our profession.
The OSCPA Legislative Action Committee (LAC)
Since 1982, the LAC has been the CPA profession’s united voice in Oregon. Its mission is simple but powerful: to support legislative candidates who understand, respect, and champion the CPA profession.
What makes the LAC unique is that it’s driven by CPAs for CPAs. A Board of Trustees - your peers from across the state - carefully reviews candidates, approves contributions, and personally delivers them to legislators. This direct, personal involvement ensures that when policymakers make critical decisions, the CPA perspective is at the table.
Why It Matters
For Students & New CPAs: Advocacy protects the license you worked so hard to earn and strengthens the future of the profession you’re building your career in.
For Experienced Professionals: Advocacy gives CPAs a stronger voice in informing the laws and decisions that affect your work.
For the Profession as a Whole: Advocacy safeguards public trust, ensuring Oregon’s CPAs remain a cornerstone of financial integrity and accountability.
Advocacy is a Member Benefit
When you support and engage in advocacy, you’re investing in its strength for generations to come. Every contribution, every conversation with a legislator, and every volunteer effort makes our collective voice louder.
Your voice matters. Your support matters. Together, we keep the profession strong.
Ways to Get Involved
Review Legislative Bills
Help protect the future of the CPA profession by reviewing proposed legislative bills. Training is provided, and you decide the time commitment.
Key Person Program: Be a Legislator’s Key Contact
The Key Person Program is the backbone of OSCPA’s grassroots advocacy. It depends on personal relationships between CPAs and elected representatives to communicate the profession’s views directly.
If you know a legislator or a congressional representative, you can make a difference by serving as a Key Contact. OSCPA will reach out to you when vital issues arise and ask you to share information with your legislator. These relationships are the most effective way to ensure the CPA perspective is heard.