Transcript Division II Newly Adopted Legislation

Newly Adopted
Legislation – Division II
Rich McGlynn & Stephanie Quigg
2006 NCAA Convention Legislation
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Consent Package
Presidents Council Grouping
Conduct and Employment of Athletics Personnel
Recruiting
Eligibility
Financial Aid
Awards and Benefits
Playing and Practice Seasons
Administrative
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 – STATEADMINISTERED ACT
 Intent: To permit an institution to provide an
official visit to a prospective student-athlete
who presents scores from a stateadministered 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 studentathlete’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 – STATEADMINISTERED 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 studentathlete’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 – OUTOF-SEASON ACTIVITIES
 Intent: In swimming and diving, to specify
that outside the playing season, a studentathlete 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 studentathlete 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 – STUDENTATHLETE 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 12quarter 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 studentathletes; (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 studentathlete 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 fiveday 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 – 10SEMESTER/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
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Consent Package
Presidents Council Grouping
Conduct and Employment of Athletics Personnel
Recruiting
Eligibility
Financial Aid
Awards and Benefits
Playing and Practice Seasons
Administrative
Emergency Legislation
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