Newly Adopted Legislation – Division II

Rich McGlynn & Stephanie Quigg

2006 NCAA Convention Legislation

1-16 Consent Package 17-23 Presidents Council Grouping 24 Conduct and Employment of Athletics

Personnel 25-29 Recruiting 30 Eligibility 31-32 Financial Aid 33 Awards and Benefits 34-38 Playing and Practice Seasons 39-40 Administrative EM-1 Emergency Legislation

Consent Package

NCAA Proposal Nos. 1-16

PROPOSAL NO. 1 AMATEURISM, RECRUITING AND AWARDS AND BENEFITS – IDENTIFIED BENEFITS FOR RELATIVES OF PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETES AND STUDENT-ATHLETES

Intent: To change references from “spouse, parents, or family members” to “relatives.”

Effective Date: Immediate.

[For bylaw cites, please see the 2006 NCAA Division II Official Notice.]

PROPOSAL NO. 2 RECRUITING – CONTACTS AND EVALUATIONS – OFF-CAMPUS RECRUITERS

Intent: To permit all institutional staff members to contact a prospect within 30 miles of campus during the prospect’s official visit.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[NCAA Division II Bylaw 13.1.2.1.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 3 RECRUITING – RECRUITING MATERIALS – NONATHLETICALLY RELATED PRINTED RECRUITING MATERIALS

Intent: To specify that an institution may provide nonathletically related recruiting materials to a prospect at any time.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaws 13.4.1 and 13.4.1.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 4 RECRUITING – OFFICIAL VISIT – LIMITATIONS ON OFFICIAL VISIT – ACADEMIC REQURIEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL VISIT – STATE-ADMINISTERED ACT

Intent: To permit an institution to provide an official visit to a prospective student-athlete who presents scores from a state-administered ACT.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 13.6.1.2.3.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 5 RECRUITING – HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STAR GAMES

Intent: To eliminate legislation affecting the eligibility of student-athletes who compete in high school football or basketball all-star games; further, to specify that an institution is prohibited from making its facilities available for a high school all-star game unless specified conditions are satisfied.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 14.6 and 30.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 6 RECRUITING – TRYOUT EXCEPTIONS – PRIVATE LESSONS – EQUESTRIAN

Intent: To permit women’s equestrian coaches to give private lessons to prospects, as specified.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 13.11.3.8]

PROPOSAL NO. 7 RECRUITING – SPORTS CAMPS AND CLINICS – STUDENT-ATHLETE EMPLOYMENT IN OWN INSTITUTION’S CAMP OR CLINIC

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that the director of athletics (or his or her designee) must give prior approval to the student-athlete’s employment arrangement in the institution’s own camp or clinic.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 13.12.2.1.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 8 RECRUITING – PRE-COLLEGE EXPENSES – USE OF INSTITUTION’S FACILITY

Intent: To permit a state high school association to use an institution’s facilities to host state high school championship events at a reduced rate.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 13.15.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 9 INITIAL ELIGIBILITY – TEST-SCORE REQUIREMENT – STATE-ADMINISTERED ACT

Intent: To specify that a state-administered ACT may be used to meet the initial-eligibility test-score requirement.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaws 14.3.1.3 and 14.3.1.3.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 10 ELIGIBILITY – TRANSFER REGULATIONS – CONDITIONS AFFFECTING TRANSFER STATUS

Intent: To clarify that a student’s physical presence on campus does not invoke transfer status, provided the student does not actually attend a class; further, to specify that the receipt of athletically related institutional financial aid while attending a summer term, summer school or summer-orientation program invokes transfer status.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 14.5.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 11 FINANCIAL AID – DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATIONS – EXEMPTED INSTITUTIONAL AID

Intent: To permit private institutions to exempt out-of-state tuition waivers from counting as institutional financial aid.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 15.02.4.3]

PROPOSAL NO. 12 FINANCIAL AID – EQUIVALENCY SPORTS – MAXIMUM EQUIVALENCY LIMITS – WOMEN’S RUGBY

Intent: In women’s rugby, to establish a maximum equivalency financial aid limit of 12.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 15.5.2.1.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 13 AWARDS AND BENEFITS – CONFERENCE AWARDS – EXPENSES

Intent: To permit a conference to pay the actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete’s relatives to attend a conference academic awards presentation.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 16.1.6.5]

PROPOSAL NO. 14 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – SWIMMING AND DIVING – OUT-OF-SEASON ACTIVITIES

Intent: In swimming and diving, to specify that outside the playing season, a student-athlete may be involved with in-pool conditioning activities and swimming-specific equipment may be used.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 17.1.5.2.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 15 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – LENGTH OF PLAYING SEASON – ROWING – LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING

Intent: To permit an institution that sponsors a lightweight-rowing program to apply the playing- and practice-season provisions independently from its open-rowing program.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 17.17]

PROPOSAL NO. 16 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – LENGTH OF PLAYING SEASON – SKIING

Intent: To permit an institution that sponsors both Alpine and Nordic skiing to declare separate playing and practice seasons.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 17.19.1]

Presidents Council Grouping

Proposal Nos. 17-23

PROPOSAL NO. 17 – INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL – SELF-STUDY AND EVALUATION – FAILURE TO COMPLETE

Intent: To specify that an institution that fails to complete the self-study report within the five-year time period shall be placed on probation and forfeit enhancement funds; further, to specify that institutions that fail to complete the self-study report during the probationary year shall be subject to a $1,000 fine, forfeit enhancement funds, not eligible for NCAA championships and placed on restricted membership status.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 6.3.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 18 ETHICAL CONDUCT – UNETHICAL CONDUCT

Intent: To specify that unethical conduct shall include the knowing involvement in providing a student-athlete a banned substance, impermissible supplement or medications contrary to the medical licensure, commonly accepted standards of care in sports medicine practice, state or federal law.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 10.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 19 AMATEURISM – GENERAL REGULATION – VALIDITY OF AMATEUR STATUS – PROSPECTIVE OR TRANSFER STUDENT-ATHLETE

Intent: To require NCAA certification of the amateur status of any prospective student-athlete (including two-year and four-year transfers) initially enrolling at an NCAA Division II institution.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006, for all final certifications for student-athletes initially enrolling at a Division II institution on or after August 1, 2007.

[Bylaws 12.1, 14.01.3.1 and 21.7.6.5.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 20 AMATEURISM – PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES – STUDENT-ATHLETE NAME, PICTURE OR APPEARANCE

Intent: To permit the name, picture or appearance of a student-athlete to be used in any institutional, charitable, educational or nonprofit promotion that involves a commercial entity, including media entities, under specified conditions.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 12.5.1.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 21 RECRUITING – RECRUITING ADVERTISEMENTS – SHARED HOME FACILITY

Intent: To permit an institution to advertise and upgrade its home facility even if that facility is also the home facility for prospective student-athletes (e.g., high school football stadium).

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaws 13.4.4.1 and 13.15.2]

PROPOSAL NO. 22 ELIGIBILITY – FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE TRANSFERS – ONE-TIME TRANSFER EXCEPTION – FINAL SEASON OF COMPETITION OR FINAL TWO FULL-TIME SEMESTERS OR THREE FULL-TIME QUARTERS

Intent: To specify as a condition of the one-time transfer exception that a student, who has one season of competition remaining in his or her sport or two full-time semesters or three full-time quarters remaining in which to complete his or her eligibility and who has not earned a baccalaureate degree, shall have satisfactorily completed an average of 12-semester or 12-quarter hours of transferable degree credit acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree program at the certifying institution for each term of full-time attendance, at any collegiate institution, with a cumulative minimum grade-point average of 2.000.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 14.5.5.3.10]

PROPOSAL NO. 23 ELIGIBILITY AND CHAMPIONSHIPS – PENALTY STRUCTURE AND CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION PROCESS

Intent: To establish an appropriate penalty structure as part of the enforcement and championship selection process as follows: (1) clarify that all decisions by the Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee are final; (2) amend the philosophy statement to indicate championships are for eligible student-athletes; (3) define nullification; (4) establish an appeals process for nullification; (5) create an eligibility verification form; (6) establish nullification of contests as part of the championship selection criteria; and (7) clarify the process to appeal secondary infractions cases.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 14.11, 18.4.1.2, 19.5.1, 20.10, 31.02, 31.1.1, 31.2.1, 31.2.1.7, 31.2.1.7.1, 31.2.2, 31.3, 31.3.3, 31.3.3.3 and 32.4]

Conduct and Employment of Athletics Personnel

Proposal No. 24

PROPOSAL NO. 24 CONDUCT AND EMPLOYMENT OF ATHLETICS PERSONNEL – LIMITATIONS ON COMPENSATION AND REMUNERATION – EMPLOYMENT WITH PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS

Intent: To specify that institutional staff members may be employed by a professional sports organization in accordance with institutional policies.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 11.3.3]

Recruiting

Proposal Nos. 25-29

PROPOSAL NO. 25 RECRUITING – CONTACTS AND EVALUATIONS – CONTACTABLE PROSPECTS – HIGH SCHOOL PROSPECTS

Intent: To permit an institution to make one telephone call to a prospect in March of the prospect’s junior year in high school; one in-person, off-campus contact during April of the prospect’s junior year in high school; and all other telephone calls or in-person, off-campus contacts on or after June 15 following the completion of the prospect’s junior year in high school.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 13.1.1.1]

NOT MOVED ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR

PROPOSAL NO. 26 RECRUITING – RECRUITING ADVERTISEMENTS – NONATHLETICS INSTITUTIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS

Intent: To permit an institution (or third party acting on behalf of the institution) to publish nonathletics institutional advertisements in nonathletics, high school publications and other nonathletics publications, as specified.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 13.4.4.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 27 RECRUITING – TRANSPORTATION ON OFFICIAL VISIT – FROM AIRPORT

Intent: To permit any member of an institution’s athletics department staff to provide ground transportation during an official visit for a prospect and any prospect’s parents or legal guardians between the campus and any bus, train station or airport.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 13.5.2.4]

PROPOSAL NO. 28 RECRUITING – PUBLICITY – ANNOUNCEMENT OF SIGNING

Intent: To specify that after a prospect has signed a National Letter of Intent or offer of admission and/or financial aid, an institution may release information related to the signing to any media outlet; further, to specify that there are no limits on the number of occasions that the information may be released and the institution is not allowed to purchase or receive commercial advertising (e.g., print, media, billboard) that identifies the prospective student-athlete by name or picture.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 13.10.7]

PROPOSAL NO. 29 RECRUITING – TRYOUTS – LOCAL SPORTS CLUBS

Intent: In sports other than basketball, to permit an institution’s coach to be involved as a participant or in instructional or coaching activities in the same sport for a local sports club or organization located in the institution’s home community, provided all prospects participating in said activities are legal residents of the area (within a 100-mile radius of the institution).

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 13.11.2.4]

Eligibility

Proposal No. 30

PROPOSAL NO. 30 ELIGIBILITY – CHANGE IN

ELIGIBILITY STATUS – EXCEPTION

Intent: To establish an exception to the certification of the six-hour term-by-term requirement for those institutions whose submissions or posting date of grades is within three days of the first day of classes of the following term; further, to require institutions that use this exception to provide to the NCAA national office the number of student-athletes who are ultimately declared ineligible for the academic term but competed during the exception period.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 14.1.10]

Financial Aid

Proposal Nos. 31-32

PROPOSAL NO. 31 FINANCIAL AID – TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF AWARDING INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL AID – PERIOD OF AWARD – ONE-YEAR LIMIT

Intent: To permit athletics awards to be written for the academic year and the following summer at the institution’s discretion.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 15.02.6 and 15.3.3.1]

DEFEATED

PROPOSAL NO. 32 FINANCIAL AID – EQUIVALENCY SPORTS – EQUIVALENCY COMPUTATIONS

Intent: To clarify that an institution may use either the actual or average amount received by a student-athlete as the numerator and either the actual or average amount of the full grant-in-aid value in the denominator for equivalency purposes.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 15.5.2.2]

Awards and Benefits

Proposal No. 33

PROPOSAL NO. 33 AWARDS AND BENEFITS – EXPENSES PROVIDED BY THE INSTITUTION FOR PRACTICE AND COMPETITION – TRAVEL APPAREL

Intent: To permit an institution to provide student-athletes with team travel outfits, blazers or other items of clothing to travel to and from competition.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 16.8.1 and 16.8.2]

Playing and Practice Seasons

Proposal Nos. 34-38

PROPOSAL NO. 34 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – PLAYING SEASON REGULATIONS – SKILL INSTRUCTION

Intent: In sports other than football, to permit student-athletes and members of the coaching staff to engage in countable athletically related activities outside the institution’s playing season, as specified.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaw 17.1.5.2.1]

DEFEATED

PROPOSAL NO. 35 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – SUMMER PRACTICE – FACILITY FEES

Intent: To permit an institution to pay fees associated with the use of the institutional practice and competition facilities by student-athletes engaged in voluntary athletically related activities in his or her sport during the summer.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[For bylaw cites, please see the 2006 NCAA Division II Official Notice.]

PROPOSAL NO. 36 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – FIRST DATE OF COMPETITION – FALL SPORTS

Intent: In cross country, field hockey, football, soccer and women’s volleyball, to specify that an institution shall not engage in its first date of competition before the Thursday preceding August 30.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 17.7.3, 17.10.3, 17.11.3, 17.20.3 and 17.28.2.3]

PROPOSAL NO. 37 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – FOOTBALL FIVE-DAY ACCLIMATIZATION PERIOD – WALK-THROUGHS

Intent: In football, to permit an institution to conduct one one-hour walk-through per day during the five-day acclimatization period, provided protective equipment (e.g., helmets, shoulder pads) is not worn, equipment related to football (e.g., footballs, blocking sleds) is not used and conditioning activities do not occur.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 17.11.2.3 and 17.11.2.4.1]

PROPOSAL NO. 38 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS – GOLF – PRACTICE AND COMPETITION DATES

Intent: In golf, to count multi-day golf tournaments (up to a maximum of five tournaments) as one date of the 24 practice or competition dates during the nonchampionship segment.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 17.12.5.1 and 17.12.8]

Administrative Regulations

Proposal Nos. 39-40

PROPOSAL NO. 39 ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS – CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE

Intent: To require all athletics department staff members, except for students or student-athletes responsible only for the completion of clerical duties, to sign the certification of compliance form.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaws 30.3 and 30.3.5]

PROPOSAL NO. 40 ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS – 10-SEMESTER/15-QUARTER RULE WAIVER – STUDENT-ATHLETE NOT USING A SEASON OF COMPETITION DURING INITIAL YEAR OF COLLEGIATE ENROLLMENT

Intent: To permit a student-athlete who does not compete during his or her first season of competition and, due to circumstances beyond his or her control, is not able to complete four seasons of competition prior to the expiration of intercollegiate eligibility, to receive an eligibility extension.

Effective Date: August 1, 2006.

[Bylaws 30.6.1 and 30.6.1.2]

Emergency Legislation

Proposal No. EM-1

PROPOSAL NO. EM-1 ORGANIZATION – DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION – SENIOR WOMAN ADMINISTRATOR

Intent: To clarify that the senior woman administrator is a designation, not a job title or job description.

Effective Date: Immediate.

[Bylaw 4.02.4]

2006 NCAA Convention Legislation

1-16 Consent Package 17-23 Presidents Council Grouping 24 Conduct and Employment of Athletics

Personnel 25-29 Recruiting 30 Eligibility 31-32 Financial Aid 33 Awards and Benefits 34-38 Playing and Practice Seasons 39-40 Administrative EM-1 Emergency Legislation

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