Functionality to Automatically Close Pending Proofs in Completed Projects

[#1]

As much as I remind people to mark a decision on proofs, and even send a monthly reminder to anyone who has a pending proof with a link to a report where they can view them easily, our pending backlog continues to grow. WF needs some kind of functionality that either prevents a project from getting closed - this idea - or something that if a project goes to complete and there are pending proofs, any pending proofs change to a status of ‘later version approved.' The latter would be better, something automated. Or if a later version of a proof was marked approved, any prior versions that are pending change to a 'later version approved' status. 

Help!

[#2]

@KerryKa1 , about your question on a report to show pending proofs in complete projects...
You could do a Document report with these filters. The top one is specifically to pull only proofs, not documents.