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AB 258

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2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Deb Andraca and 15 co-sponsors

AB 258 requires brokerage agreements to be in writing, removing oral contracts, and ties licensee duties to written agreements, reducing disputes over brokerage existence.

Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor
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Bill Summary · AB 258

Summary — AB 258 (BDR 54-741): Revises provisions relating to brokerage agreements

Status: Chapter 24.
Introduced: January 16, 2025.
Sponsor/Authors (as reported): Assemblymember Moore (and others).
Fiscal effect: Committees reported no fiscal impact to state or local government.

Purpose / intent

AB 258 amends Nevada law governing real estate brokerage to require that a “brokerage agreement” be a written contract. The change removes language that previously allowed an oral contract to qualify as a brokerage agreement. The bill makes conforming edits to statute references that currently refer to “written” agreements and eliminates redundant statutory language.

Key provisions

  • Revises the statutory definition of “brokerage agreement” (see NRS 645.005) to eliminate any provision that an oral contract may constitute a brokerage agreement — i.e., a brokerage agreement must be in writing.
  • Amends related statutory provisions (identified in the bill as sections 1, 3, 4 and 5) so references to “written brokerage agreements” or requirements that certain agreements be in writing are revised or removed as appropriate to reflect the new baseline requirement that brokerage agreements be written.
  • Makes a conforming change in NRS 624.031(12) (an exclusions/exception provision) to reflect the revised definition when describing certain acts by licensed real estate professionals (for example, assisting a client in scheduling repair/maintenance work pursuant to a brokerage agreement or property management agreement).
  • Retains existing regulatory and consumer-protection requirements tied to brokerage agreements — for example, statutory duties of licensees, requirements to deliver copies of agreements to clients, and form/contents requirements for exclusive representation agreements — but those obligations will now uniformly attach only to written brokerage agreements.

Who is affected

  • Real estate licensees regulated under Nevada’s Chapter 645 (real estate brokers, broker‑salespersons and salespersons).
  • Clients/consumers who enter into brokerage relationships (buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, property owners).
  • The Real Estate Division (Department of Business and Industry) and persons who rely on statute to resolve disputes over existence or scope of brokerage engagements.

Practical effect / likely impacts

  • Clarifies evidentiary baseline: brokerage relationships and the statutory duties tied to them will require a written contract, reducing reliance on oral agreements in enforcement, licensing, or civil disputes.
  • May reduce disputes about whether a brokerage relationship existed, since courts and regulators will look for a written agreement.
  • No reported fiscal impact to state or local government.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Referred to the Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor and other relevant committees for review and amendment as needed.
  • Committee reports indicate “no” effect on state/local finances.
  • The measure passed the Legislature and was chaptered as Chapter 24 (2025).

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