New York (State). Law Revision Commission

CURRENT FUNCTIONS. The Law Revision Commission analyzes State law and investigates issues affecting or affected by laws in order to make recommendations to the legislature for reforming and modernizing the law.

It accomplishes this by examining New York State's common and statute law and current judicial decisions to discover defects and recommend reforms; receiving and considering proposed changes in the law from the American Law Institute, bar associations, the Commission for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States, members of the judiciary, other public officials, and the general public; and recommending to the legislature changes needed to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable rules of law and to accommodate State law to changing social conditions. The commission's recommendations and proposed statutory revisions are issued as annual reports and are published in McKinney's Session Laws of New York.

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