Verification record

How current is Montana’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?

Last verified 2026-10-13. Read from the dated copy the issuing body serves and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed every recorded passage in that copy. The issuing body publishes no live page for this rule, so the date above rests on the read itself.

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Passages captured from the issuing body

2,466 characters, word for word

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Official sources

boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov

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Dated reads on file

captures taken 2026-10-16, 2026-10-19

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Automatic re-checks

newest 2026-10-19

The rule on file

ARM 24.174.411; ARM 24.174.711. No pharmacist-to-technician ratio. Montana leaves the number of technicians a pharmacist supervises to the pharmacist-in-charge (ARM 24.174.711). Its schedule rule is a pharmacist break: in a pharmacy staffed by a single pharmacist, the pharmacist shall take a meal or rest break on the premises of up to 30 minutes per shift, without closing the pharmacy (ARM 24.174.411).

That is the sentence the Montana page states. The passages below are what the issuing body served when RxShift read it, kept as a dated record so a pharmacy and its counsel can check the sentence against the source. How a rule is read is decided by people and recorded with its date; no automated check can change a reading. RxShift reports deficiencies against this reading; it does not certify compliance, and nothing here is legal advice.

The recorded passages

Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-19. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.

1 of 1 passages found 2026-10-19

  • the adoption notice's final action and the list of rules amended as proposed

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    Final Rulemaking Action - Effective December 6, 2025 ADOPT AS PROPOSED The agency has adopted the following rules as proposed: NEW RULE 1 (24.174.2001) DEVICE, DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, AND MEDICAL GAS SUPPLIER LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR A NON-PHARMACY FACILITY NEW RULE 2 (24.174.2002) DEVICE NON-PHARMACY FACILITY REQUIREMENTS NEW RULE 3 (24.174.511) SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCY Issue No. 23 - December 5, 2025 2 AMEND AS PROPOSED The agency has amended the following rules as proposed: 24.174.301 DEFINITIONS 24.174.401 FEE SCHEDULE 24.174.411 PHARMACIST MEAL/REST BREAKS 24.174.503 ADMINISTRATION OF VACCINES BY PHARMACISTS, INTERNS, AND PHARMACY TECHNICIANS 24.174.526 CLINICAL PHARMACIST PRACTITIONER QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS 24.174.701 PHARMACY TECHNICIAN LICENSE REQUIREMENTS 24.174.703 USE AND TRAINING OF PHARMACY TECHNICIANS 24.174.711 RATIO OF PHARMACY TECHNICIANS AND INTERNS TO SUPERVISING PHARMACISTS

    919 characters, recorded as written.

3 of 3 passages found 2026-10-19

  • 24.174.411(1) and (2) as adopted

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    24.174.411 PHARMACIST MEAL/REST BREAKS (1) In any pharmacy staffed by a single pharmacist, the pharmacist shall take a meal/rest break on the premises for a period of up to 30 minutes per shift without closing the pharmacy and removing support personnel, provided the pharmacist reasonably believes that the security of prescription drugs will be maintained in the pharmacist's absence. (2) The pharmacist-in-charge shall develop written policies and procedures for operation of the pharmacy in the temporary absence of the pharmacist.

    535 characters, recorded as written.

  • 24.174.703(10) as adopted (a page header elided)

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    a pharmacy technician may act as agent in charge of the pharmacy to ensure its integrity when ... a licensed pharmacist is not physically present but remains on the premises. The pharmacy technician may not perform any duties which require the exercise of the pharmacist's independent professional judgment. The technician may not be left in charge for more than 30 minutes.

    374 characters, recorded as written.

  • 24.174.711(1) as adopted

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    24.174.711 RATIO OF PHARMACY TECHNICIANS AND INTERNS TO SUPERVISING PHARMACISTS (1) The ratio of pharmacy technicians to pharmacist(s) on duty is to be determined by the pharmacist-in-charge. A pharmacist intern does not count against the pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratio.

    279 characters, recorded as written.

  • MAR Notice 2026-131.2, the rules amended as proposed (none is 411, 703 or 711)

    Not yet re-checked
    AMEND AS PROPOSED The agency has amended the following rules as proposed: 24.174.803 CHANGE IN LOCATION AND BOARD NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 24.174.835 TRANSFER OF PRESCRIPTIONS 24.174.839 ALTERNATE DELIVERY OF PRESCRIPTIONS 24.174.841 COMPOUNDED STERILE PREPARATIONS 24.174.1101 PERSONNEL 24.174.1802 DISPENSING REQUIREMENTS 24.174.2301 UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

    359 characters, recorded as written.

Every read and every re-check, newest first

A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one.

  • 2026-10-19

    Re-check: confirmed

    The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (4 of 4, 1,810 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day. This run set no public date.

  • 2026-10-19

    Currency screen

    A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.

    Montana still sets no numeric limit on how many pharmacy technicians a pharmacist may supervise: under ARM 24.174.711(1) the pharmacist-in-charge determines the ratio, and a pharmacist intern does not count against it. Under ARM 24.174.411, in a pharmacy staffed by a single pharmacist, the pharmacist shall take a meal or rest break on the premises of up to 30 minutes per shift without closing the pharmacy, and under ARM 24.174.703(10) a technician may not be left in charge for more than 30 minutes. The Board of Pharmacy's rulemaking notices show no change to these rules since December 6, 2025.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-10-16

    Re-check: confirmed

    The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (4 of 4, 1,810 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day. This run set no public date.

  • 2026-10-16

    Currency screen

    A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.

    Montana requires that a pharmacist working alone take a meal or rest break of up to 30 minutes per shift, on the premises, without closing the pharmacy (ARM 24.174.411). Since December 6, 2025 a pharmacy technician may hold the pharmacy during that break but may not be left in charge for more than 30 minutes (ARM 24.174.703(10)). Montana sets no numeric pharmacist-to-technician ratio, no maximum shift length and no required rest period between shifts. The adopted text was re-read today from the Board of Pharmacy's own rulemaking notices.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-10-15

    Re-check: no baseline

    No report with a verbatim record qualified as a baseline on that date, so there was nothing for the automated re-check to compare.

  • 2026-09-17

    Report

    A dated report on file for this state.

    Montana requires that a pharmacist working alone take a meal or rest break of up to 30 minutes per shift, on the premises, without closing the pharmacy (ARM 24.174.411). Since December 6, 2025 a pharmacy technician may hold the pharmacy during that break but may not be left in charge for more than 30 minutes (ARM 24.174.703(10)). Montana sets no maximum shift length and no required rest period between shifts.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-09-16

    Report

    A dated report on file for this state.

    Montana does not set a numeric pharmacist-to-technician ratio. The Board of Pharmacy eliminated its former 1:4 ratio in 2022. RxShift does not model a Montana ratio because there is none to model; whether Montana has hour, break or documentation rules that RxShift could support has not yet been researched.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

What the re-check results mean

  • Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
  • Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
  • Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
  • Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.
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