Legislation authored by William Lawrence Schlesinger

Includes legislation with William Lawrence Schlesinger as the primary author for the 35th through 35th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.

35th Regular Session
HB 159 Caption: Relating to requiring all persons doing business under an assumed name to file in the office of the county clerk a certificate showing the real names of said persons; prescribing penalties.
HB 174 Caption: Relating to providing for a certain season during which it shall be unlawful for any person to kill any squirrel, and limiting the amount of squirrels that may be killed during any one day during the remainder of the year, and prohibiting the sale and exchange of squirrels.
HB 198 Caption: Relating to authorizing married women who are notary publics to execute bonds binding their separate real estate.
HB 201 Caption: Relating to fixing the venue of suits against any private corporation or joint-stock company in any county in which the cause of action arose.
HB 247 Caption: Relating to the preservation of bass, perch, sun fish crappie, and other fish in Medina Lake; providing for a penalty.
HB 332 Caption: Relating to providing for an appeal from interlocutory orders overruling motions to vacate orders appointing receivers.
HB 396 Caption: Relating to providing that property on which liens are given shall not be set aside as exempt property until the debts secured by such lien have been discharged.
HB 424 Caption: Relating to the collection of a tax on the use or furnishing for use of trading stamps, coupons, certificates, etc.
HB 448 Caption: Relating to the payment of an occupation tax by wholesale dealers in mineral oils and petroleum products.
HB 462 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the theft or vandalism of motor boats and other water craft.
HB 521 Caption: Relating to providing a home for lepers and to provide for the isolation, care, and treatment of persons suffering with leprosy; making an appropriation.
HB 562 Caption: Relating to providing a penalty for the issuance, furnishing, redemption, or distribution for use of trading stamps, cards, coupons, tickets, certificates, or any other trading stamp device or premium scheme supplies in connection with the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; and providing an exception in favor of manufacturers and packers of their own goods, wares and merchandise.
HB 689 Caption: Relating to creating the office of grand jury stenographer.
HB 745 Caption: Relating to providing for the summoning of jurors by mail.
HB 770 Caption: Relating to providing offices in the courthouse for justices of the peace of Precinct No. 1 in certain counties.
HB 782 Caption: Relating to official shorthand reporters compensation in Bexar county.
HB 819 Caption: Relating to prohibiting licensed attorneys from dividing fees with persons not licensed to practice law.
35th 1st Called Session
HCR 8 Caption: Suspending Joint Rule No. 11.
35th 2nd Called Session
HR 48 Caption: Commending the news reporters for their coverage of the impeachment proceedings.
35th 3rd Called Session
HB 36 Caption: Relating to amending statutes so as to permit acknowledgements to deeds, etc., to be taken before any officer of the Judge Advocate General's Department.
35th 4th Called Session
HB 29 Caption: Relating to Chapter 146 General Laws of 1913, providing for a closed season against seining for fish, suspending certain provisions thereof during the period of the War between the United States and the Imperial German Government, and for twelve months after the President shall have proclaimed that a treaty of Peace has been concluded.
HB 129 Caption: Relating to amending Article 7355, Title 126, Chapter 1, Revised Statutes of 1911.
HB 131 Caption: Relating to authorizing the acknowledgments of written instruments and the taking of depositions of witnesses by officers authorized under the Military Laws of the United Stats to administer oaths.