---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing a board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental healthcare professionals"
description: "Establishing a board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental healthcare professionals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 438"
citation: "Montana HB 438 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Services", "Professions and Occupations Generally", "Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-04T19:13:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T15:53:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/356c2636-ed51-4772-b989-2a0c429cd213"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0457?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "db9421b4782d618d78c7bec7461f20f6a4a2da2b556f5c91a30ef3a342d3b0ed"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
---

# Montana HB 438 (2025) — Establishing a board of physical, rehabilitative, and developmental healthcare professionals

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB0438_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280558)
2. **HB0438_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285206)
3. **HB0438_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295449)
4. **HB0438_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309905)
5. **HB0438_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309911)
6. **HB0438_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280261)
7. **HB0438_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312277)
8. **HB0438_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324659)
9. **HB0438_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325824)
10. **HB0438_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327345)
11. **HB0438_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312278)
12. **HB0438_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312468)
13. **HB0438_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312469)
14. **HB0438_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317086)
15. **HB0438_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320652)
16. **HB0438_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321481)
17. **HB0438_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321482)
18. **HB0438_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321483)
19. **HB0438_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311113)
20. **LC0457.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273047)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **45–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-10-04T19:13:06+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-10-04T19:13:06+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-14T18:55:18+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-01-20T19:36:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-20T21:55:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-21T18:13:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-22T16:25:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-23T00:40:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-24T16:11:53+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-07T17:17:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-07T22:06:13+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-07T22:10:44+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-10T17:10:57+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T19:54:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-10T20:13:07+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-14T17:46:52+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14T17:59:10+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14T20:32:38+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-14T21:09:27+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-14T23:18:34+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-17T20:25:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-19T21:13:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20T21:49:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-20T22:17:31+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-21T20:26:54+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-01T22:07:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T23:19:26+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-15T16:32:10+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T18:16:26+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T21:54:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T16:19:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:32:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:32:59+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-17T05:30:06+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T15:53:29+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/356c2636-ed51-4772-b989-2a0c429cd213`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).