All Roll Calls
Yes: 48 • No: 0
NebraskaLB187109th Legislature 1st and 2nd SessionslegislatureWALLET
Change provisions of the Nebraska Real Estate License Act
Sponsored By: Robert Dover
Signed by Governor
Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 3 mixed.
New license and training rules for agents
Beginning January 1, 2026, all applicants must complete 6 class hours in a commission‑approved professional practice course. After a license is issued, you must finish 12 hours of approved study within 180 days; proof stays valid for four years. If you do not submit proof, your license goes inactive until you provide it and pay the reactivation fee in section 81-885.20. Broker applicants with two years of active experience must complete 60 extra class hours. A new broker may not act as a designated broker until finishing postlicensure courses in trust accounting, finance, ethics, and risk; the commission may allow up to a six‑month hardship extension. Under a hardship approval, a broker candidate may qualify with 18 college credits in real estate subjects or six approved courses totaling 180 hours. Salesperson prelicense education drops from 90 hours (three courses) to 60 hours (two courses).
New written rules for real estate brokers
Beginning July 1, 2025, designated brokers enter and keep copies of all written brokerage agreements, unless they authorize an affiliate in writing. Seller and landlord listings must be in writing with duties, pay terms, a fixed end date, and whether subagency is offered. Buyer agreements are required for 1–4 unit homes and may be used for other property types; they must also show duties, pay terms, an end date, and subagency. Dual agency requires written consent from both sides and, for a specific property, written confirmation of dual status and who pays before or at contract or lease. Subagents need a written contract with the primary broker, or may accept a unilateral subagency offer by disclosing subagent status to the customer. If a broker promises duties beyond the basic law (like added confidentiality), those extra duties and pay terms must be in a written agency agreement. Limited seller’s agents for builders may set pay terms for a specific new home before the builder accepts a sale contract.
License needed to market contract rights
Publicly marketing for sale your equitable interest in a real estate purchase contract now counts as real estate brokerage, except for vacant lots. You must hold the proper license or meet an exemption to do this. This brings these marketed contract sales under the same consumer protections as regular brokerage.
Stronger consumer rules for brokers
The law bans right‑to‑list home sale agreements; the commission can discipline anyone who uses them. Licensees who use unlicensed assistants to find clients must give them the licensure‑exemption statute or written instructions about it. Nebraska brokers may pay only referral fees to nonresidents licensed in their home jurisdiction, or to foreign citizens from countries without broker licensing who provide written proof. These limits and disclosures protect consumers and clarify when referral payments are allowed.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Robert Dover
legislature
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
legislature vote • 3/6/2025
Final Reading
Yes: 48 • No: 0 • Other: 1
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor on March 11, 2025
3/12/2025legislatureDispensing of reading at large approved
3/6/2025legislaturePassed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 48-0-1
3/6/2025legislaturePresident/Speaker signed
3/6/2025legislaturePresented to Governor on March 6, 2025
3/6/2025legislaturePlaced on Final Reading
2/20/2025legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
2/13/2025legislaturePlaced on Select File
2/6/2025legislatureAdvanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
1/31/2025legislaturePlaced on General File
1/28/2025legislatureNotice of hearing for January 27, 2025
1/16/2025legislatureReferred to Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee
1/15/2025legislatureDate of introduction
1/13/2025legislature
Bill Text
Introduced
3/12/2025
Enrolled / Slip Law
Final / Enacted