In a quieter week for the New Hampshire Legislature during winter break, state leaders still made some big moves. Here’s what you need to know.

This past week

■The new Commission on Government Efficiency met publicly for the first time this week. While commission members sought to distance themselves from Elon Musk and the federal Department of Government Efficiency’s style of sweeping cuts, others raised concerns about transparency from the COGE and its actions.

■Gov. Kelly Ayotte is urging state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts. New Hampshire State Police has applied to partner with ICE, as has the town of Gorham. When accepted, these partnerships expand local police’s authority to question people they suspect to be illegal immigrants and would allow them to arrest someone without a warrant on some occasions, as reported by the Monitor’s Sruthi Gopalakrishnan. ICE is also exploring plans to expand the federal prison in Berlin, which would make it the second immigrant detention center in New Hampshire.

■Lawmakers are considering a bill to make school board elections partisan. By a community vote, it would allow people to run for school board as a member of a political party. Some argued that the bill, sponsored by Republicans, would better inform voters at the ballot box and increase participation in elections. Opponents resisted it, saying it’d only add more polarization to communities and could discourage people from running for local office.

The week ahead

Things will pick back up in Concord this week, as the House and Senate will push to act on all legislation before Crossover Day on April 10. That’s when each chamber must vote on all bills so the other chamber can take up the ones that pass.

Committees will hold executive session on several high-profile bills this week, in which they’ll make a formal recommendation to the larger chambers on whether to pass certain legislation.

Here are the big ones on the table:

House Bill 148, which restricts transgender rights and allows separation by biological sex in some spaces.

House Bill 254, on medical aid in dying and end-of-life care options.

House Bill 10, the parental bill of rights.

House Bill 675, a leading Republican attempt at redoing the state’s education funding structure.

House Bill 115, which would remove the income cap for access to Education Freedom Accounts.

House Bill 171, exploring a moratorium on permits for new landfills.

Here are other events to keep an eye out for this week.

■On Wednesday, March 5, the House will hold a public hearing on House Bill 610, which would repeal the state’s Office of the Consumer Advocate.

■On Thursday, March 6, the Legislature will be back in session to vote on more than 200 bills. The House and Senate dockets can be viewed on the General Court’s website.

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Charlotte Matherly is the statehouse reporter for the Concord Monitor and Monadnock Ledger-Transcript in partnership with Report for America. Follow her on X @charmatherly or send her an email at cmatherly@cmonitor.com.