HB 500 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Generally revise laws related to chiropractic practitioners

HB 500 aimed to revise laws related to chiropractic practitioners in Montana. The bill sought to establish a new license endorsement, allowing chiropractors who obtain it to prescribe certain noncontrolled, nonscheduled drugs like muscle relaxants and NSAIDs for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The Board of Chiropractors would have been responsible for setting the educational qualifications and protocols for this prescriptive authority. Additionally, the bill proposed that chiropractic services be included as part of the Montana Medicaid program.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB0500_1(5).pdf → HB0500_2.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill underwent significant formatting corrections, fixing a typo that incorrectly labeled certain drugs as 'controlled' when they are actually non-controlled, and adjusting spacing for consistency. Additionally, the header information was updated to reflect a revised version of the bill, though the core policy language regarding chiropractic prescriptive authority remains substantively the same.

Scope change

No change to the bill's scope or applicability; the changes are primarily technical and editorial.

TECHNICAL

Corrected a typo in the drug list where 'noncontrolled, nonscheduled' was mistakenly changed to 'non controll ed, nonscheduled CONTROLLED, SCHEDULED'.

Adjusted spacing and line breaks in the header and section titles to improve formatting consistency.

Updated the bill version identifier in the header from HB 500.1 to HB0500.2.

Floor votes · House Mar 6, 2025

How they voted

54–44

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 100

Mar 6, 2025

D Democratic42

5 Yea 36 Nay 1

85% Nay

R Republican58

49 Yea 8 Nay 1

84% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 6, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (54-44-2)

house

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Report - (H) Appropriations

lower

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Appropriations

lower

Mar 4, 2025

Committee

(H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Appropriations

lower

Mar 3, 2025

Committee

(H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Appropriations

lower

Mar 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Report - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors