Maine has NOT passed a state-specific statute codifying buyer-agent representation agreement requirements in response to the August 2024 NAR settlement (unlike Texas's SB 1968 or California's AB 2992). Maine falls into the same category as New York: it relies on (1) the national NAR settlement's MLS Participant Rule implemented through the local MLS — Maine Real Estate Information System, Inc. d/b/a Maine Listings, which as a REALTOR-affiliated MLS was required to adopt the practice changes by August 17, 2024 — and (2) its own pre-existing, more general Real Estate Brokerage License Act provision, 32 M.R.S. §13177-A ('Brokerage agreements'), enacted in 2005 and amended in 2011, which requires ALL brokerage agreements (buyer or seller side) to be in writing, but was not created or amended in response to the settlement and does not independently mandate a signed agreement before touring homes or contain the settlement's specific compensation-disclosure language. No bill matching the profile of a settlement-specific buyer-agency statute has been found in the 131st (2023-2024) or 132nd (2025-2026) Maine Legislature sessions. Maine Real Estate Commission rules (most recently readopted October 26, 2025) elaborate on the existing §13177-A brokerage-agreement requirements (writing, signature, terms, compensation, expiration date, agency-relationship statement, 6-month cap on post-expiration fee claims) but again are a codification of the pre-existing statutory scheme, not a new response to the settlement.
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