How much notice is required to raise the rent in Nebraska?

Verified July 11, 2026 All Nebraska topics →

Nebraska has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day convention for month-to-month tenancies is derived from Neb.

Rev. Stat. 76-1437(2), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice given at least 30 days before the periodic rental date (7 days before the termination date for week-to-week), so a landlord proposing higher rent is offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving. Because the 30 days must run to a periodic rental date, a mid-cycle increase notice effectively cannot bite until the next rent date at least 30 days out. There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases: Nebraska has no rent control, and a 2025 statute (§ 13-331, effective September 3, 2025) expressly bars every city, village, and county from imposing rent controls on private property, overriding even home-rule charters, with narrow exceptions for inclusionary-housing land-use tools and voluntary programs.

Nebraska rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is locked for a fixed term unless the lease itself provides for changes — a contract principle; no section of the act addresses mid-term or renewal increases.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control, and since September 3, 2025, Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-331 (enacted by LB 266, approved April 7, 2025) expressly strips every city, village, county, and their agencies of the power to enact or enforce any ordinance 'which would have the effect of imposing rent controls on private property.' Two carve-outs: affordable-housing ordinances that work through land-use or inclusionary housing requirements, and voluntary rent-restriction programs a property owner contractually joins. The section applies notwithstanding any home rule charter, and violating ordinances are null and void. No Nebraska municipality has ever had rent control — the sponsor described the bill as proactive.
Local rent control preempted	Yes
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month is null per the TX/SC derivation convention: 76-1437 addresses only termination and never mentions rent increases, so the 30-day figure is practice-derived and page copy must present it that way. Nebraska wrinkle worth rendering: the m2m notice is measured to 'the periodic rental date specified in the notice' (not any date), while the week-to-week 7-day notice is measured to 'the termination date' — an asymmetry in the statutory text, double-read verbatim. Preemption trap (reverse of the usual direction): § 13-331 is NEW — enacted by LB 266 (2025), approved 2025-04-07, no emergency clause, effective 2025-09-03 (three calendar months after adjournment; effective date corroborated by Nebraska Public Media and 1011 News reporting on the Sept. 3 effective wave). Pre-2025 charts saying Nebraska has 'no express preemption, only Dillon's Rule' are stale; the express statute also moots the home-rule-charter question for Omaha and Lincoln. Statute text pinned from the LB 266 slip law and double-read on the official code page.

Statute citations

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1437 (1)-(2) Official source
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-331 Official source
Laws 2025, LB 266, § 1 (slip law) § 1 Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Nebraska Legislature site (nebraskalegislature.gov): sections 76-1416, 76-1423, 76-1437, and 13-331 each fetched twice in independent reads (standard and print views) with all load-bearing figures matching verbatim (one-month deposit cap, one-quarter-month pet deposit, 14-day return keyed to the date of termination of the tenancy, lesser-of one month's rent/2x deposit penalty, 24 hours' written entry notice with purpose and anticipated-window content requirements, 30-day/7-day periodic termination notice, rent-control preemption text), and each additionally reconciled character-for-character against the official enacted slip laws downloaded from nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs: LB 433 (2019) and LB 532 (2021) for 76-1416, LB 320 (2021) for 76-1423, LB 266 (2025) for 13-331 — so every amendment claim is pinned from the session law itself. Also read: 76-1408 (exclusions), 76-1414 (rent terms), 76-1432(2) (absence entry), 76-1410(13) (rent definition), 76-1412 (unconscionability), 76-1431(2) (7-day pay-or-quit). FindLaw mirror (current through 2024) matched 76-1423 verbatim; Justia/LegiScan returned 403 and were not needed. Negative checks (no late-fee or grace-period provision, no deposit interest, no escrow/trust account, no rent-increase notice or frequency rule) run twice against the full act text via the legislature's consolidated display (76-1401 through 76-14,111). Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on official bill pages: LB 17 (fee limits, late-fee cap) indefinitely postponed 2026-04-17; LB 587 (tenant remedies) indefinitely postponed 2026-04-17; LB 980 and LB 469 (2026 eviction-procedure bills) not enacted — no slip law exists; 109th Legislature 2nd session adjourned sine die 2026-04-17.