CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would make it more difficult for schools to punish students for playing with toy guns.
Members of the Senate Education Committee held a hearing Tuesday on AB121, which already passed the Assembly on a 24-17 party-line vote.
Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler is sponsoring the so-called "Pop Tarts" measure which would forbid schools from punishing students who play with toy guns or pretend to use a firearm.
It also extends protections to students who wear clothing with images of firearms, use hand gestures to imitate a gun or brandish partially-eaten pastries in the shape of a weapon.
Wheeler said excessive punishments in other states inspired him to take up the legislation in Nevada.