Table 6.1.2. Year Civics Education Initiative legislation passed and requirements, by state: 2018
| State | Year legislation passed |
Test requirement | Graduation requirement |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 2017 | Citizenship test | No | |
| Alaska | † | † | † | |
| Arizona | 2015 | Citizenship test | Yes | |
| Arkansas | 2017 | Citizenship test | Yes | |
| California | † | † | † | |
| Colorado | † | † | † | |
| Connecticut | † | † | † | |
| Delaware | † | † | † | |
| District of Columbia | † | † | † | |
| Florida | † | † | † | |
| Georgia | † | † | † | |
| Hawaii | † | † | † | |
| Idaho | 2015 | Citizenship test | Yes | |
| Illinois | † | † | † | |
| Indiana | † | † | † | |
| Iowa | † | † | † | |
| Kansas | † | † | † | |
| Kentucky | 2017 | Citizenship test | Yes | |
| Louisiana | 2015 | Unit of study and citizenship test | No | |
| Maine | † | † | † | |
| Maryland | † | † | † | |
| Massachusetts | † | † | † | |
| Michigan | † | † | † | |
| Minnesota | 2016 | 50 questions from the citizenship test | No | |
| Mississippi | † | † | † | |
| Missouri | 2016 | Questions similar to the citizenship test | Yes | |
| Montana | 2017 | Citizenship test | No | |
| Nebraska | † | † | † | |
| Nevada | 2017 | At least 50 questions drawn from the citizenship test | Yes | |
| New Hampshire | 2016 | Locally developed competency assessment of U.S. government and civics | No | |
| New Jersey | † | † | † | |
| New Mexico | † | † | † | |
| New York | † | † | † | |
| North Carolina | † | † | † | |
| North Dakota | 2015 | Citizenship test | Yes | |
| Ohio | † | † | † | |
| Oklahoma | † | † | † | |
| Oregon | † | † | † | |
| Pennsylvania | † | † | † | |
| Rhode Island | † | † | † | |
| South Carolina | 2015 | Citizenship test | No | |
| South Dakota | † | † | † | |
| Tennessee | 2015 | Local education agency prepares the test with 25-50 questions drawn from the citizenship test | No | |
| Texas | † | † | † | |
| Utah | 2015 | Basics civics test including 50 questions from the citizenship test | Yes | |
| Vermont | † | † | † | |
| Virginia | † | † | † | |
| Washington | † | † | † | |
| West Virginia | 2017 | Citizenship test or "substantially similar" test | No | |
| Wisconsin | 2015 | Citizenship test | No | |
| Wyoming | † | † | † |
| † Not applicable. | ||||
| NOTE: The Civics Education Initiative advocates for state adoption of a requirement that students must pass a civics test as a condition of high school graduation. The citizenship test is a test of basic federal historical and civic facts included in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization civics test, which immigrants must pass to become legal U.S. citizens. | ||||
| SOURCE: Education Commission of the States, The Civics Education Initiative 2015–2017, retrieved August 15, 2019 from https://www.ecs.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Civics-Education-Initiative-2015-2017.pdf. Data Source. |