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HOUSTON (AP) — A South Texas lawmaker proposes protecting from school punishment students through fifth grade who use their hands, toys, even food items to mimic guns.

State Rep. Ryan Guillen, a Rio Grande City Democrat, filed the bill for consideration by the Legislature convening next month.

He told the Houston Chronicle the bill was motivated by news that a second-grader in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., was suspended for two days in march 2013 for chewing his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun.

No such incident has occurred in Texas, but Guillen says he wants to head off any such occurrences.

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