[4] The CLRC may only study matters that have been expressly authorized by legislative resolution or statute.
For example, in 2013 the CLRC was directed to make recommendations to modernize California law on state and local government access to the customer records of communication service providers.
[8] Seven of the CLRC's ten members are appointed by the Governor for four year terms, with the advice and consent of the California Senate.
It spent 24 years codifying the massive body of uncodified law that had accumulated (and continued to accumulate) in the California Statutes, because the original California Codes were not a comprehensive codification.
After the Code Commission completed the monumental task of codifying virtually all general California statutory law into the California Codes, it recommended the creation of the CLRC, as a permanent law reform body.