Minnesota is a hybrid/unusual case, not a clean match to either the Texas/California model or the New York model. Minnesota already had its own real statute (Minn. Stat. §82.66 subd. 2, enacted 1993, last amended 2014) requiring a signed written buyer's broker agreement before an agent performs any buyer-representation acts — decades before the NAR settlement existed. Unlike Texas's SB 1968 or California's AB 2992, this was not new legislation passed in reaction to the August 2024 settlement; it's a long-standing state law that happened to already require much of what the settlement now mandates nationally. On top of this pre-existing state law, Minnesota MLS participants (per Minnesota Realtors/NorthstarMLS and other state MLSs) also comply with the national NAR settlement's MLS Participant Rule, effective August 17, 2024, which independently requires a written buyer agreement before touring homes (in-person or live virtual). No new Minnesota statute was enacted specifically to codify the NAR settlement — the state relies on its pre-existing 1993/2014 statute plus the national MLS rule operating concurrently. I found no evidence of a 2025-2026 legislative amendment to Chapter 82 addressing this.
Minnesota Statutes Chapter 82, § 82.66 (subd. 2) and § 82.67 — "Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons" — effective Minnesota's statutory written buyer's-broker-agreement requirement dates to 1993 (1993 c 309 s 7-8), with amendments through 2014 (last amended 2014 c 199 s 23) — it long predates and is independent of the NAR settlement. Separately, the national NAR settlement's MLS-level written-agreement rule took effect August 17, 2024, and layers on top of Minnesota's pre-existing statute. No Minnesota bill in the 2025-2026 legislative session has amended Chapter 82 in response to the settlement.
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