North Dakota has NOT passed a Texas-SB-1968-style or California-AB-2992-style statute specifically codifying NAR-settlement buyer-representation requirements. Instead, North Dakota is in a hybrid/pre-existing-rule category: it already had its own state requirement (N.D. Admin. Code 70-02-03-05.1, adopted under N.D. Century Code Chapter 43-23, the State Real Estate Commission chapter) mandating that buyer's broker agreements be in writing before a licensee acts as a buyer's representative for 1-4 unit residential property — and this requirement predates the August 2024 NAR settlement (a December 2023 nationwide compilation of states with mandatory written buyer agency agreements already listed North Dakota among 18 such states). On top of this pre-existing state rule, North Dakota real estate licensees who are MLS participants (through NDRealtors-affiliated MLSs) also independently comply with the national NAR settlement practice changes effective August 17, 2024, which layered on additional requirements (conspicuous, objectively-ascertainable compensation disclosure; a ban on MLS-published offers of buyer-broker compensation; a prohibition on receiving compensation exceeding what's stated in the written agreement). A search of the North Dakota Legislature's 69th Assembly (2025 regular session, adjourned sine die May 3, 2025) bill index found no new North Dakota bill enacting NAR-settlement-specific codification comparable to Texas's SB 1968 (effective Jan. 1, 2026) or California's AB 2992 (effective Jan. 1, 2025). So North Dakota's real answer is a hybrid of (a) its own longstanding administrative rule requiring written buyer-broker agreements (pre-dating the settlement) and (b) voluntary/contractual compliance with the national NAR settlement's MLS participation rules — not a new state statute passed because of the settlement.
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