DENVER – A Colorado lawmaker wants students in The Centennial State to be informed citizens, and he’s pushing a bill to require high schoolers to pass a citizenship test to graduate.

State Sen. Owen Hill wants students to be required to answer 60 out of 100 multiple choice questions correctly on an online civics test similar to the one given to immigrant citizens in order to graduate high school because he believes schools are neglecting important information, ABC 7 reports.

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“Every single person who wants to be a citizen that comes from outside the country needs to pass it, it’s only reasonable that all of us should have to pass too,” Hill told the news site. “We already have a mandate that you have to have a civics class to graduate high school, so we’re not changing that at all. All we’re doing now is putting a little bit of parameters on that.”

The senator dismissed criticism about adding another test to a curriculum that already involves numerous standardized tests.

“The truth is we don’t need another test, we need more robust civics,” he said. “This is the role of our schools, to make sure every one of our students are informed enough to be citizens.”

Unlike the citizenship test administered through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Hill’s Senate Bill 148 would allow students to answer multiple choice questions, and would only require them to secure a D- to meet the graduation requirement. Students would be allowed to take the test as many times as necessary, he told the news site.

Regardless, folks who wrote in to the Denver Post offered differing viewpoints on legislation.

“Facts are not knowledge, and memorization of arbitrary social studies facts will not make people better citizens or voters. And no law should ever pit a student’s entire academic record against the results of a single arbitrary test,” Breckenridge resident Terri Margolies wrote.

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“Criticism of this idea is not simply about ‘testing time.’ It’s about the naivete of placing unnecessary and inappropriate significance on a single objective test.”

Colorado Springs resident H. Wayne Hall disagreed.

“… (A) 2014 Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found only about a third of Americans could name our three branches of government and about a third could not even name one branch,” Hall wrote.

“So, it appears a majority of us don’t even know what kind of government we have. Our leaders promote ever more comprehensive voter registration and ballot distribution, but our system of government depends on an informed electorate, not merely a massive electorate.

“There is no logic in thinking that more and more poorly informed voters will somehow create better government.”

Hill told ABC 7 the legislation is expected to receive a hearing in the state Senate Education Committee today, when lawmakers are “going to do some of this test.”

The news site quizzed several college students with questions from the proposed civics test with mixed results. Several at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver didn’t have a clue.

“I don’t know what a cabinet position is,” said a Community College of Denver freshman identified only as Kaila.

“I’ve looked at the full list before and I remember thinking, I would not pass this. If I (needed) to be a citizen, I would not be able to do it,” Kaila said.

Others like Juan, a Metro State University sophomore, did quite well.

Juan answered 12 out of 14 questions correctly, and said “it doesn’t seem that hard.”

“This is something they beat into your head for years in history,” he said. “If you were born in the United States, you should know it. This is where you’re from.”