New York (State). Temporary State Commission on Revision of the Civil Service Law

In 1950 the Legislature created a Temporary State Commission on Revision of the Civil Service Law to study and propose changes to modernize civil service law.

The Commission consisted of eleven members appointed as follows: five by the Governor, one of whom represented and was nominated by the Civil Service Commission; three Senators by the Temporary President of the Senate; and three Assemblymen by the Speaker of the Assembly. Assemblyman Fred W. Preller was selected Commission Chairman and the Commission was commonly known as the "Preller Commission". Civil Service Commissioner A.A. Falk was appointed to the Preller Commission and Department of Civil Service (D.C.S.) officials served on its legal and research staff.

During its existence between 1950 and 1956 the Commission engaged in broad studies of civil service operations and law, solicited suggestions for changes in the law, held hearings, recommended hundreds of changes in the law, and drafted legislation embodying these changes. The bills drafted and sponsored by the Commission never passed the Legislature but many of its recommendations were incorporated into a 1958 law sponsored by Assemblyman Preller (L. 1958, Ch. 790).