Montana PT & PTA continuing education requirements
Board-verified details Partial Last checked 2026-10-17
PT hours
30 contact hours
PTA hours
30 contact hours
Renewal cycle
1 year
Ethics, jurisprudence & required topics
Check with your board
Live vs. online limits
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Rules change. This summary is for orientation only and may be out of date or incomplete. Confirm with your state board. Fields marked “Check with your board” could not be verified.
Full requirements
- PT hours required
- 30 contact hours (MT Rule §24.177.2105(2)(b))
Source: [2] - PTA hours required
- 30 contact hours (MT Rule §24.177.2105(2)(b))
Source: [2] - Renewal cycle
- 1 year
Source: [3] - Deadline pattern (PT)
- Annual renewal by April 1 (window opens 60 days before).
Source: [1] - Deadline pattern (PTA)
- Same as PTs (April 1 annually).
Source: [1] - Live / in-person / online limits
- Check with your board
- Required topics
- Check with your board
- Course approval rules
- FSBPT approval model: Type 2 (Board has established standards but no evaluation/verification required of standards being met); Type 4 (Activities are approved by virtue of who sponsors the activity). Recognized approvers listed by FSBPT: FSBPT (incl. ProCert), State PT association.
Source: [5] - Official state board
- Montana Board of Physical, Rehabilitative, and Developmental Health Care Professionals
(406) 444-6880 · [email protected]
Notes
- The Montana board page says CE rules are in ARM 24.119.2101. We could not load the official rule text (rules.mt.gov needs JavaScript), so hours, format and topics are not verified. Unofficial summaries cite 8 hours a year, which conflicts with FSBPT's 30. Check with your board.
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Sources
Numbers next to each field point to the source(s) used for that field.
- https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/Physical-Rehabilitative-and-Developmental-Health-Care-Professionals/License-Information
- https://www.fsbpt.org/lrg/Home/LicenseRenewalUnitsRequired
- https://www.fsbpt.org/lrg/Home/LicensureRenewalTerm
- https://www.fsbpt.org/lrg/Home/LicensureRenewalRequirement
- https://www.fsbpt.org/lrg/Home/LicenseRenewalCourseApproval
Last checked: 2026-10-17. Primary source: https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/Physical-Rehabilitative-and-Developmental-Health-Care-Professionals/License-Information