On May 24 and June 20, 2024, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) ^[1] and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,^[2] the proposed rules referenced above (collectively, the “proposed rules”).^[3] The Quality Control Proposed Rules were published for comment in the Federal Register on June 11, 2024. The Technology-Assisted Analysis Proposed Rules and Contributory Liability Proposed Rules were each published for comment in the Federal Register on July 2, 2024.^[4] The Commission provided a 21-day public comment period for the proposed rules,^[5] which ended on July 2 for the Quality Control Proposed Rules and July 23, 2024 for the Technology Assisted Analysis Proposed Rules and Contributory Liability Proposed Rules.

Section 19(b)(2) of the Act ^[6] provides that no later than 45 days after the date of the publication of notice of the filing of a proposed rule change, or within such longer period up to 90 days as the Commission may designate if it finds such longer period to be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or as to which the self-regulatory organization ^[7] consents, the Commission shall either approve or disapprove the proposed rule change, or institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved. The 45th day after publication of the notice for the proposed rules is July 26, 2024, for the Quality Control Proposed Rules and August 16, 2024, for each of the Technology Assisted Analysis Proposed Rules and the Contributory Liability Proposed Rules.

On July 1, 2024, the Commission extended the date by which the Commission shall either approve or disapprove, or institute proceedings to determine whether to approve or disapprove, the Quality Control Proposed Rules to August 25, 2024.^[8] To provide additional time for consideration of the Quality Control Proposed Rules and the issues raised therein, the Commission finds it appropriate to extend the time period within which the Commission must take action on those proposed rules for up to an additional 15 days. To provide additional time for consideration of the Technology-Assisted Analysis Proposed Rules and the Contributory Liability Proposed Rules and the issues raised therein, the Commission finds it appropriate to extend the time period within which the Commission must take action on those proposed rules for up to seven days. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,^[9] the Commission extends the date by which the Commission shall either approve or disapprove, or institute proceedings to determine whether to approve or disapprove, the proposed rules to August 23, 2024 for the Technology Assisted Analysis Proposed Rules and the Contributory Liability Proposed Rules (File Nos. PCAOB-2024-03, PCAOB-2024-04) and September 9, 2024 (File No. PCAOB-2024-02).