Should Nebraska legislators be tested on civics knowledge? New bill says yes.

Passage not required, but raw score would be made public under LB 1066

Cindy Gonzalez January 19, 2026

LINCOLN — Nebraska teens, under a 2019 state law, must clear a civics requirement to graduate. Immigrants must pass a test on civics and U.S. history to gain U.S. citizenship.

Now a bipartisan group of Nebraska state senators wants to write into law that new members of the officially nonpartisan Legislature take a 20-question civics test — and publicly post the scores…