1.
Elementary and Secondary Education;
2.
Community Colleges;
3.
Higher Education;
4.
Regents Institutions;
5.
Educational Development and Professional Regulation;
6.
School Districts;
7.
Cultural Affairs.
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If we go to the Code itself, under Education and Cultural Affairs we find the
following arrangement:
Title VII Education and Cultural Affairs
Subtitle 1 Elementary and Secondary Education
Chapter 256-Department of Education and there are four sub-chapters within that chapter.
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When we look at 256.1 Department Established, we find at the end of the
section the legislative history, that is to say, where the provision came from.
45
By contrast, in the New Zealand Tables, we are offered only the names of eight
statutes with the word Education in their short titles. No assistance is offered as
to how often issues relating to education might be found in other statutes.
46
The Editor of the Code who is a member of the State Legislative Service Bureau
is required to place in the Code all Statutes of a general and permanent nature. Of
course, the annual session laws including all Acts and Joint Resolutions passed at
each session of the bi-cameral Assembly are published. But they are published
separately from the Code.
47
Iowa has elections every two years and the legislature meets every year. The law
requires a new Iowa Code to be issued as soon as possible after the final
adjournment of the second regular session of the general assembly. A new Code
supplement is issued as soon as possible after the first regular session of the
general assembly. So in New Zealand terms, the whole of the statute law is
reprinted in Iowa every two years in an integrated and accessible manner. The
matter of its setting out and the print is of importance. Chapter 2A is set out in the
Appendix as an example.
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