Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB438: Establishing a board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental healthcare professionals
Status: Signed into law, May 5, 2025
What the bill says
An act establishing a board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental health care professionals; generally revising professional and occupational licensing provisions and transferring authority for athletic trainers, occupational therapy practitioners, physical therapy examiners, and speech-language pathologists and audiologists to the board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental health care professionals; providing definitions; providing for standard organizational duties for the board; providing rulemaking authority…
From the engrossed text:
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A BOARD OF PHYSICAL, REHABILITATIVE, AND DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; GENERALLY REVISING PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING PROVISIONS AND TRANSFERRING AUTHORITY FOR ATHLETIC TRAINERS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICAL THERAPY EXAMINERS, AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS TO THE BOARD OF PHYSICAL, REHABILITATIVE, AND DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING FOR STANDARD ORGANIZATIONAL DUTIES FOR THE BOARD; PROVIDING RULEMAKING AUTHORITY; AMENDING SECTIONS 37-11-101, 37-15-102, 37-24-103, 37-36-101, AND 37-36-201, MCA; REPEALING SECTIONS 2-15-1739, 2-15-1748, 215-1749, 2-15-1771, 37-11-201, 37-11-203, 37-11-307, 37-15-201, 37-15-202, 37-15-203, 37-24-102, 37-24201, 37-24-202, 37-24-203, 37-24-310, 37-36-102, AND 37-36-202, MCA; AND PROVIDING A DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATE. Section 1. Board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental health care professionals. (1) In accordance with 37-1-123, there is a board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental health care professionals. (2) The board consists of 12 (b) two occupational therapists; (c) four physical therapists; (d) two speech-language pathologists; (e) one audiologist; and (f) one public member. - 1 - Authorized Print Version - HB 438 ENROLLED BILL **** 69th Legislature 2025 HB 438 (3) The board is allocated to the department as prescribed in 2-15-121. Section 2. Purpose. The legislature declares it to be a policy of this state that in order to help ensure the availability of services and protect the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state, it is a …