Oregon CPA License Reinstatement: What a Lapsed License Costs

Formula: a $225 non-refundable reinstatement application fee (OAR 801-010-0010) plus the standard $255 active biennial renewal fee for each lapsed renewal period -- total scales with how long the license was lapsed.

• 80 CPE hours OAR 801-010-0130(2): reinstating a lapsed license to active status requires 80 CPE hours (including 4 hours of ethics), documented by completion certificates no older than 24 months before the reinstatement application. Credit for non-technical-subject programs is capped at 16 of those 80 hours -- a ceiling on one subject category, not hours added on top of the 80. The 80-hour figure is flat and does not scale with how long the license was lapsed (only the fee does, per the formula above); reinstatement by this route is unavailable once a license has lapsed more than 6 years or 3 renewal periods. A separate obligation applies after reinstatement: normal CPE then accrues on a pro rata monthly basis for the rest of the renewal period in which you reinstate (OAR 801-010-0130(1)(b)).
• 4 ethics hours, within that total.

Sourcing note: The $225 reinstatement fee, $255 biennial renewal fee, and 80-hour CPE reinstatement requirement (with its 16-hour non-technical-credit cap) are all set out in Oregon's codified rules (OAR 801-010-0010 and 801-010-0130) -- the same rule text cited above. The Board's renewal-information page describes the lapse and reinstatement process in plain terms but doesn't restate these specific figures; the rule itself is the definitive source for them. (Last checked 2026-09-22.)