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TITLE II—AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE

SEC. 201. SERVICES OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE OF AUDITORS.
(a) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES.—Section 10A of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78j–1) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(g) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES.—Except as provided in subsection (h), it shall be unlawful for a registered public accounting firm (and any associated person of that firm, to the extent determined appropriate by the Commission) that performs for any issuer any audit required by this title or the rules of the Commission under this title or, beginning 180 days after the date of commencement of the operations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board established under section 101 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (in this section referred to as the ‘Board’), the rules of the Board, to provide to that issuer, contemporaneously with the audit, any non-audit service, including— ‘‘(1) bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client; ‘‘(2) financial information systems design and implementation; ‘‘(3) appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, or contribution-in-kind reports; ‘‘(4) actuarial services; ‘‘(5) internal audit outsourcing services; ‘‘(6) management functions or human resources; ‘‘(7) broker or dealer, investment adviser, or investment banking services; ‘‘(8) legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit; and ‘‘(9) any other service that the Board determines, by regulation ,is impermissible. ‘‘(h) PREAPPROVAL REQUIRED FOR NON-AUDIT SERVICES.—
A registered public accounting firm may engage in any non-audit service, including tax services, that is not described in any of paragraphs(1) through (9) of subsection (g) for an audit client, only if the activity is approved in advance by the audit committee of the issuer, in accordance with subsection (i).’’. (b) EXEMPTION AUTHORITY.—The Board may, on
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