CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The Latest on a legislative deadline at the Nevada Legislature (all times local):

7:30 p.m.

A Nevada bill that would allow terminal patients to kill themselves with medication prescribed by a doctor has failed.

The state Senate failed to take a vote on the measure ahead of a Tuesday legislative deadline that decides whether bills move on.

Supporters have argued the legislation will let the patients who are suffering die with dignity and end their pain. Opponents say the bill will lead to elder abuse and give some an easy path to suicide.

A similar bill from state Sen. David Parks narrowly passed the Senate last legislative session, but did not receive a vote in the Assembly.

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5:45 p.m.

The state Assembly has passed an omnibus gun bill that seeks to ban bump stocks and allow counties to pass stricter firearm laws than those imposed by the state.

The chamber approved the bill in a largely party-line vote on Tuesday.

The bill is sponsored by Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui, who escaped the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival in which a gunman used bump stocks to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Assemblyman Tom Roberts voted against the measure. The Republican says he is in support of the bump stock ban. But he spoke against giving counties the power to create more stringent firearm laws and says it would create a patchwork of laws.

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5 p.m.

Bills to push people to safely store firearms and to streamline the sealing of marijuana convictions passed a key vote Tuesday in the state Assembly ahead of a legislative deadline.

The two votes were among a flurry being held by Assembly lawmakers as the deadline approaches.

The measures also would have to pass the Nevada Senate before heading to the governor.

The Assembly passed legislation that would create a criminal penalty for a person who negligently stores their firearm in a place where a child could access it.

The legislation would make the offense a misdemeanor.

The body also approved legislation that seeks to streamline the sealing of low-level marijuana convictions.

Assemblyman William McCurdy II, a Democrat, is a sponsor of the legislation and has told lawmakers it would help people with such convictions gain employment and remove the stigma of a criminal past.

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