Montana Title 50. Health and Safety § 50-4-1106. Free speech protections--notification of complaints--penalty

(1) The department of public health and human services, a licensing board operating under Title 37, or any other entity that grants licensure or certification may not reprimand, sanction, or revoke or threaten to revoke a license, certificate, or registration of a medical practitioner who is licensed or certified by the department or board for engaging in speech or expressive activity protected under the first amendment to the U.S. constitution, unless the department or board demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that the medical practitioner's speech was the direct cause of physical harm to a person with whom the medical practitioner had a practitioner-patient relationship within the 3 years immediately preceding the incident of physical harm.