Week in Review: Feb. 6-10

Big plans for Super Bowl Sunday? Good luck if you’re a fan of the Chiefs or Eagles. For everyone else, enjoy the game, the commercials, the food, or ignore all of it and get outside instead. It’s supposed to be a nice weekend.

Keep reading and you’ll see what a busy week it was in the House. Lots of bills being heard and a few passed as well. Next week promises more of the same.

But until then, have an enjoyable weekend and here’s a look back at what you may have missed.

BUSINESS AND COMMERCE

Lawmaker aims to ‘level the playing field’ for auto dealerships performing warranty repairs

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17619

CIVIL LAW

Judiciary panel approves $69.5 million funding boost to help service low-income legal clients

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17624

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

St. Paul-based film center seeking $3 million for building renovation

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17632

EDUCATION

House passes free breakfast, lunch for all Minnesota schoolkids

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17651

Additional proposed spending on career, technical education in MN schools gets warm House reception

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17644

House committee backs measure to foster multilingual education

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17639

Governor’s education policy bill sees some pushback during first House hearing

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17629

ELECTIONS

Elections policy bill advances in House along party lines

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17631

EMPLOYMENT

Bill laying out updated accommodations for pregnant, nursing workers heads to House Floor

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17647

Prevailing wage would become part of renewable energy projects under bill

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17640

ENERGY

Governor’s energy proposals seek to unlock federal funds, grow Solar for Schools

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17628

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

DNR seeks $266 million investment to preserve, expand portfolio of capital assets

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17637

State needs to study how to help public infrastructure better adapt to climate change, lawmakers hear

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17633

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Committee approves school-linked behavioral health grants bill

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17650

House OKs $5 million in emergency funding for Minnesota food shelves

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17649

Diagnostic services could be provided free of charge after initial mammogram

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17648

Early learning scholarships targeted for almost $1 billion boost

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17642

Accessibility advocates tell lawmakers hurdles remain for many applying for disability services

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17638

DFL proposal would expand MinnesotaCare access to all, create public health insurance option

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17635

Lawmaker wants proposed Emmett Louis Till Victims Recovery Program to help heal historical traumas

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17627

Panel approves $43 million to reduce chronic staffing shortages for direct support professionals

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17618

HOUSING

Grant program would provide $65 million to preserve, increase manufactured home access

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17641

$4 billion could go to cost-burdened households in new rental assistance program

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17630

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Minnesota’s local governments could see a bump in state aid

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17636

MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

'There is a demand for this:' More MN veterans may become eligible for service bonuses

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17617

PUBLIC SAFETY

Minnesota playing catch-up in funding youth intervention programs, advocates say

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17645

Public safety panel considers bill that would create new classification of crime to fight rising retail thefts

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17626

House OKs $4.3 million bump for AG’s office to assist county attorneys

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17621

House passes $96 million boost to funding for MN public defenders

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17620

STATE GOVERNMENT

House committees scrutinize state’s grant funding processes in aftermath of Feeding Our Future scandal

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17634

Facing wave of aging Minnesotans, lawmakers consider creating task force to tackle issue

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17622

TAXES

MN families could net $3,000 per child under proposed tax credit

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17646

TRANSPORTATION

Walz transportation budget proposes maximizing federal funds now, increasing tab fees for future

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17643

Wheels on the bus go round and round — but for many school districts, that’s an impossibly high cost

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17625

Package of proposed bike safety measures would honor longtime advocate

https://www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily/Story/17623