I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2625 
To protect the rights of children. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 8, 2013 
Mr. STOCKMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To protect the rights of children. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Student Protection 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 
Congress finds: 
(1) So-called ‘‘zero-tolerance’’ weapons policies 
in federally funded schools are being used to outlaw 
harmless expressions of childhood play. 
(2) So-called ‘‘zero-tolerance’’ weapons policies 
in federally funded schools are being used to teach 
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children to be afraid of inanimate objects that are 
shaped like guns. 
(3) A school in Grand Island, Nebraska, this 
year demanded a three-year-old deaf boy in pre-
school change his name because its sign language 
expression resembles a gun. 
(4) A seven-year-old Colorado boy was sus-
pended for throwing an imaginary hand grenade. 
(5) In Talbot County, Maryland, two six-year- 
old boys were suspended this year for shaping their 
fingers in the shape of guns while playing ‘‘cops and 
robbers’’ during recess. 
(6) A 14-year-old in Kentucky was not only 
suspended from school this year for wearing an 
NRA T-shirt that said, ‘‘protect your right’’, but the 
principal called police to have him arrested. 
(7) A six-year-old Palmer, Massachusetts, kin-
dergartner who brought a plastic G.I. Joe Lego toy 
gun on a school bus was given detention and ordered 
to write a letter of apology to the bus driver and fel-
low student passengers. 
(8) This government-sanctioned political cor-
rectness is traumatizing children and spreading irra-
tional fear. 
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SEC. 3. DECLARATION OF POLICY. 
(a) No funds appropriated pursuant to any provisions 
of law may be used for any educational institution which 
punishes a student as a result of any of the following ac-
tions by the student: 
(1) brandishing a pastry or other food which is 
partially consumed in such a way that the remnant 
resembles a gun; 
(2) possession of a toy gun which is two inches 
or less; 
(3) possession of a toy gun made of plastic snap 
together building blocks; 
(4) using a finger or hand to simulate a gun; 
(5) vocalizing imaginary firearms or munitions; 
(6) wearing a T-shirt that supports Second 
Amendment rights; 
(7) drawing a picture of, or possessing an 
image of, a firearm; or 
(8) using a pencil, pen or other writing utensil 
to simulate a firearm. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The provisions of this Act 
shall take effect on the date of enactment of the Act. 
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