Tuesday, May 12, 2015 | 4:46 p.m.
CARSON CITY — 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.
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