§ 25-2940.Relation to federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Federal law generally lets electronic records and signatures satisfy requirements that a document be in writing or signed, under the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. States can modify how that federal framework applies within their own borders, and section 25-2940 exercises that authority for Nebraska’s Uniform Mediation Act.

The section states plainly that the Uniform Mediation Act modifies, limits, or supersedes the federal act, 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq. That let Nebraska build its own rules, like the “sign” and “record” definitions in section 25-2931, around mediation without federal electronic-transactions law overriding them.

The section draws its own line, too. It does not modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. 7001(c), the federal provision protecting a consumer’s right to receive certain disclosures in a form the consumer can keep and consented to receive electronically. And it does not authorize electronic delivery of the notices Congress specifically listed in 15 U.S.C. 7003(b), covering things like wills, divorce and adoption papers, court orders, and notices about utility shutoffs, foreclosure, and insurance cancellation. Nebraska’s mediation act works within the federal framework for everything else, but leaves those consumer protections and paper-notice requirements untouched.