(a)  Pursuant to §901.159 of the Act (relating to Peer Review), the board establishes a peer review program to monitor CPAs' compliance with applicable accounting, auditing and other attestation standards adopted by generally recognized standard-setting bodies. The program may include education, remediation, disciplinary sanctions or other corrective action where reporting does not comply with professional or regulatory standards.     
      (b)  This chapter shall not require any firm to become a member of any sponsoring organization and all sponsoring organization(s) shall charge the same administrative fee to all firms participating in peer review regardless of their membership or affiliation with a sponsoring organization.     
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §527.1 adopted to be effective October 16, 2002, 27 TexReg 9579; amended to be effective October 12, 2004, 29 TexReg 9540; amended to be effective June 13, 2013, 38 TexReg 3608; amended to be effective October 10, 2019, 44 TexReg 5785