---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise visit frequency required of supervisory physical therapists"
description: "Revise visit frequency required of supervisory physical therapists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 454"
citation: "Montana HB 454 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Professions and Occupations O-Z"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morgan Thiel"]
version_count: 32
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-29T14:39:43+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T16:06:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91f66199-2354-409c-acfd-a392833f30c2"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2069?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "2bb650087127d85073c72f4a6842d70ef444bd7ad87d6b8aa248f4b8df03da70"
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 454 (2025) — Revise visit frequency required of supervisory physical therapists

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0454.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285352)
2. **HB0454_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281450)
3. **HB0454_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286880)
4. **HB0454_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286881)
5. **HB0454_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286882)
6. **HB0454_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286883)
7. **HB0454_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281080)
8. **HB0454_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286886)
9. **HB0454_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311233)
10. **HB0454_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311235)
11. **HB0454_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286887)
12. **HB0454_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286888)
13. **HB0454_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286925)
14. **HB0454_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286928)
15. **HB0454_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286930)
16. **HB0454_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286984)
17. **HB0454_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295883)
18. **HB0454_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309927)
19. **HB0454_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286885)
20. **HB0454_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311237)
21. **HB0454_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324665)
22. **HB0454_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326479)
23. **HB0454_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311238)
24. **HB0454_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311382)
25. **HB0454_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311383)
26. **HB0454_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316999)
27. **HB0454_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320568)
28. **HB0454_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321502)
29. **HB0454_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321503)
30. **HB0454_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321504)
31. **HB0454_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311236)
32. **LC2069.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279544)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass_as_amended — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Morgan Thiel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-29T14:39:43+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-02T01:24:23+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-24T20:22:53+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-04T22:04:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-04T22:19:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-06T16:06:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-06T22:17:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-07T21:00:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-10T15:52:56+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-10T22:16:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-11T21:53:28+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-12T17:32:43+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T19:53:33+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-14T19:11:04+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-24T18:54:56+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24T22:02:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T21:24:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-01T22:13:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T20:20:19+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05T00:41:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15T16:31:18+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T17:34:51+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T21:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T18:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:56:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T19:39:01+00:00** (S) Returned to House
- **2025-04-15T21:23:05+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T01:33:41+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T22:30:32+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24T17:45:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-24T21:45:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T16:06:44+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/91f66199-2354-409c-acfd-a392833f30c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).