Representative Piper, the House floor leader, announced during the House floor session that drafting instructions for shell bills must be submitted to the legal team by 5 p.m. today and that shell bills filed and sent to the floor leader’s office must meet that same deadline.

Piper said corrections to the “top 8” list — changes to which bills receive priority consideration on the floor — are due by 5 p.m. next Thursday. “Contrary to what I said yesterday, the deadline for that is 5PM next Thursday as well. So it’s all my fault,” Piper said. “Please quit bothering all the people on the dias because I said the wrong thing.”

The announcement was procedural: it set internal deadlines for bill-drafting and floor scheduling rather than creating or amending legislation. After the scheduling announcement, the floor took and approved a motion to adjourn. The clerk announced the House would reconvene Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.

The directives affect the Legislature’s bill-filing workflow for this session by fixing when drafting instructions and priority-list changes must be submitted to staff. No votes on bills or policy proposals were recorded in the portions of the transcript covering these announcements.

The session included ceremonial recognitions and other routine business, but the only substantive procedural items recorded in these excerpts were the shell-bill and top‑8 deadlines and the formal adjournment schedule.