Section 92-81-005 - Issuance of the Diploma005.01 The Commissioner of Education shall issue a High School Equivalency Diploma based upon the following requirements:005.01A Minimum test scores: The minimum individual and battery passing scores are as determined by the GED® Testing Service and in effect at the time of taking the test. The individual and battery passing scores for the GED® tests can be viewed at Nebraska Department of Education's webpage: http://www.education.ne.gov/ADED/index.html and are also available from the Department.. Test scores are accepted as official only when reported directly by Official GED® Centers, the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES), directors of Veterans Administration hospitals, or the GED® Testing Service. 005.01A1 Persons that took the GED examination prior to the effective date of this Chapter but on or after January 1, 2014, who did not meet the minimum scores in effect under this Chapter at that time, but whose scores do meet the minimum scores described in Section 005.01A, will be deemed to have met the minimum score requirements under this Chapter for purposes of issuance of the High School Equivalency Diploma.005.01B Age and Class membership: (1) The diploma candidate has attained his or her eighteenth birthday and is unable to secure a diploma from the high school he or she last attended; or (2) the class of which he/she was a member at the time of withdrawal from school has been graduated for one year.005.01C Residence: The diploma recipient has been a resident of Nebraska for at least 30 days immediately preceding application, or the final period of high school attendance during which credit was earned toward graduation was in a Nebraska high school. 005. 01DFees:005.01D1 The diploma candidate has paid a fee of $ 5.00.005.01D2 A duplicate of the diploma maybe acquired by the remittance of the fee of $ 2.00. 005.01D3 An official transcript of scores may be acquired by the remittance of a fee of $ 2.00.92 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 81, § 005