District of Columbia CPA License Reinstatement: What a Lapsed License Costs

Board's own fee page lists Renewal $110, Late Renewal $50, and Reinstatement $295 as distinct line items.

• 40 CPE hours per year lapsed 17 DCMR §2530.3: reinstating a license lapsed less than 5 years requires 40 hours of approved CPE for each year of non-renewal, capped at 120 hours, completed since the license was last issued. §2530.8 separately requires 4 hours of Professional Ethics instruction per licensing cycle as part of the CPE requirement. §2530 doesn't say whether the reinstatement hours are in addition to the normal 80-hour/2-year renewal requirement (§2530.1), or how the 4 ethics hours apply to them, so confirm both with the Board.

Sourcing note: D.C. doesn't set this fee by codified rule: no DCMR fee schedule states the $295. The Mayor sets these fees administratively under D.C. Code §47-2853.10(d), and the Board publishes the current amounts on its own page -- the same way DC handles its other licensing fees. Because the amount isn't fixed by rule, it can change without a rule filing, so confirm the current figure with the Board before you pay. The 40-hour-per-year CPE reinstatement requirement (capped at 120 hours) is codified in 17 DCMR §2530.3, and the citation link above goes directly to that section's official text. The citation also names two D.C. Code sections (the reinstatement-of-expired-license section that governs CPAs, and the Mayor's fee-setting authority); those have their own pages on the D.C. Council's code site, but the single link here goes to the DCMR section because that's the rule that actually sets the CPE numbers. (Last checked 2026-11-13.)