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, 2026LINCOLN — 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-questi...

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