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The NCAA News - News & FeaturesSeptember 30, 1996Summary of Second Publication of Proposed LegislationFollowing are the statements of intent for 66 new proposals for the 1997 Convention that appear in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation. Eight proposals from playing-and-practice-seasons deregulation package are included in the listing.The listing includes proposals produced from the Association's committee/commission structure. Membership proposals appeared in the August 19 issue of The NCAA News. Membership proposals that have not been withdrawn appear again in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation, but are not repeated here. The proposals appearing below are numbered as they appear in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation (the numeral "2" appearing before each proposal refers to that publication). NO. 2-2 DIVISION III MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS -- SPORTS-SPONSORSHIP REQUIREMENTS Intent: To increase the sports-sponsorship requirements for Division III institutions and conferences from four men's and four women's sports to five sports for each gender, and to increase team sports-sponsorship requirements from two men's and two women's team sports to three sports for each gender. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division III Task Force to Review the NCAA Membership Structure). NO. 2-4 MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS -- PROVISIONAL MEMBERSHIP Intent: To increase the length of the provisional membership period from three to four years and to specify that the new year shall be an additional educational year, during which the institution shall apply NCAA legislation to the greatest extent possible. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Transition Oversight Committee). NO. 2-5 DIVISION II MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS -- PROVISIONAL MEMBERSHIP Intent: To require Division II provisional members to complete an educational assessment during their provisional membership period. Source: NCAA Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council Transition Team). NO. 2-6 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- WAIVER OF DIVISION I REVENUE GUARANTEE Intent: To permit the Division I Board of Directors to waive the proportionality requirements of the Division I revenue guarantees in regard to the academic-enhancement, conference grant and/or special assistance funds. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division I transition Board of Directors and Management Council). NO. 2-11 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I BOARD OF DIRECTORS/MANAGEMENT COUNCIL/CABINETS Intent: To establish that the chairs of the Division I Board of Directors and Management Council shall serve two-year nonrenewable terms; that at least once every three term rotations, the chairs of the Board of Directors and the Management Council shall rotate among subdivisions; and that among the chairs of the Board of Directors, the Management Council and the Cabinets, there shall be at least one representative from each subdivision at any time. Source: NCAA Council. NO. 2-12 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I BOARD OF DIRECTORS/MANAGEMENT COUNCIL Intent: To establish that the chairs of the Division I Board of Directors and Management Council shall serve two-year, nonrenewable terms. Source: NCAA Presidents Commission (Division I transition Board of Directors). NO. 2-16 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION II PRESIDENTS COUNCIL Intent: To amend the legislation related to the composition of the Division II Presidents Council. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council and Management Council Transition Teams). NO. 2-18 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I MANAGEMENT COUNCIL Intent: To specify that there be a minimum of 14 of the 34 positions on the Management Council allocated for each gender (i.e., 14 men, 14 women) and a minimum of seven positions allocated for ethnic minorities. Source: NCAA Council (Division I transition Management Council). NO. 2-21 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I MANAGEMENT COUNCIL Intent: To permit each conference represented on the Division I Management Council to select an alternate representative to serve in place of a regular member who is unable to attend successive meetings, and to require the approval of the chair of the Board of Directors to permit the alternate to attend meetings. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division I transition Board of Directors). NO. 2-23 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I-AA GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE Intent: To establish a Division I-AA governance committee of the Division I Management Council to act on legislative issues specific to I-AA football. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division I-AA Football Issue Subcommittee of the transition Management Council). NO. 2-24 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I MANAGEMENT COUNCIL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE Intent: To establish an Administrative Committee of the Division I Management Council. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division I transition Board of Directors and Management Council). NO. 2-25 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION II MANAGEMENT COUNCIL Intent: To amend the legislation related to the composition of the Division II Management Council. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council and Management Council Transition Teams). NO. 2-26 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION III MANAGEMENT COUNCIL Intent: To revise the composition of the Division III Management Council as specified; to establish a provision related to Management Council vacancies; to permit the Management Council to perform the duties currently exercised by the Administrative Review Panel related to the review of appeals; and to specify that the Management Council shall administer duties related to the Division III business session of the annual Convention. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division III Task Force to Review the NCAA Membership Structure). NO. 2-27 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION II ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE Intent: To establish a Division II Administrative Committee. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council and Management Council Transition Teams). NO. 2-28 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION III ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE Intent: To establish a Division III Administrative Committee. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division III Task Force to Review the NCAA Membership Structure). NO. 2-29 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION II BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE Intent: To establish a Division II Budget and Finance Committee. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council and Management Council Transition Teams). NO. 2-34 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- NCAA COMMITTEE STRUCTURE Intent: To revise the NCAA committee structure by preserving certain Association-wide committees, creating common committees that affect more than one division and establishing federated committee structures. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Transition Oversight Committee). NO. 2-45 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION II LEGISLATIVE PROCESS Intent: To amend the effective date of the new legislative sponsorship requirements in Division II from August 1, 1997, to immediately. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council and Management Council Transition Teams). NO. 2-46 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- DIVISION I INTERPRETATIVE PROCESS Intent: To clarify the Division I interpretative process in the revised membership structure. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division I transition Board of Directors and Management Council). NO. 2-47 ETHICAL CONDUCT -- GAMBLING ACTIVITIES Intent: To prohibit athletics administrators (including coaching staff members) from participating in any gambling activities associated with professional sports contests. Source: NCAA Council (Professional Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-48 CONDUCT OF ATHLETICS PERSONNEL -- TOBACCO PRODUCTS Intent: To establish uniform penalties in all sports for game personnel (e.g., coaches, trainers, managers and game officials) who use tobacco products during practice or competition. Source: NCAA Council (Committee of Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports). NO. 2-50 CONDUCT AND EMPLOYMENT OF ATHLETICS PERSONNEL Intent: To preclude the use of quotations from or pictures of an institution's coaching staff member in noninstitutional camp or clinic brochures, unless the coaching staff member is employed by the camp or clinic. Source: NCAA Council (Recruiting Committee). NO. 2-52 REPLACEMENT FOR U.S. NATIONAL OR OLYMPIC TEAM COACHES Intent: To permit a coach to be temporarily replaced when that coach takes a leave of absence to participate on or to coach either the U.S. national team or U.S. Olympic team, provided the replacement is limited to a one-year period and the coach performs no recruiting or other duties on behalf of the institution. Source: NCAA Council (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-53 AMATEURISM -- DISABLING INJURY OR ILLNESS Intent: To clarify that a student-athlete must provide documentation of any insurance policy against a disabling injury or illness regardless of whether a loan is secured to purchase the insurance policy. Source: NCAA Council (Committee on Infractions). NO. 2-54 AMATEURISM -- DISABLING INJURY OR ILLNESS Intent: To require copies of any loan documents associated with disability insurance to be filed in the office of the director of athletics, regardless of the source of the collateral for the loan. Source: NCAA Council (Committee on Infractions). NO. 2-57 AMATEURISM -- BASKETBALL DRAFT Intent: To specify that a student-athlete who is drafted by a professional basketball team no longer has remaining eligibility in that sport. Source: NCAA Council (Professional Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-58 PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES -- EXPENSES BEYOND 100 MILES Intent: To permit a student-athlete to receive legitimate and normal expenses to participate in promotional activities related to specified competitive events in which the student-athlete has been selected to participate, regardless of the distance of the activity from the member institution's campus. Source: NCAA Council (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-59 AMATEURISM -- MEDIA ACTIVITIES Intent: To permit student-athletes greater access to participate in media activities (e.g., film and stage, and writing projects). Source: NCAA Council (Special Committee on Agents and Amateurism and Communications Committee). NO. 2-60 PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS -- SPONSORSHIP OF YOUTH TEAMS Intent: To permit an individual to participate on a youth team sponsored by a professional organization without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility, provided specified conditions are met. Source: NCAA Council (Professional Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-61 RECRUITING -- TELEPHONE CALLS -- DIVISIONS I AND II FOOTBALL Intent: In Divisions I and II football, to permit one telephone call to a prospect (or the prospect's relatives or legal guardians) during the month of May of the prospect's junior year in high school; further, to preclude any additional telephone calls until September 1 at the beginning of the prospect's senior year in high school. Source: NCAA Council (Recruiting Committee). NO. 2-66 TRANSFER -- POSITIVE DRUG TEST Intent: To indicate that when a student-athlete who is declared ineligible due to a positive drug test transfers to another NCAA institution, the institution from which the student-athlete transferred must notify the new institution of the student-athlete's ineligibility. Source: NCAA Council (Executive Committee). NO. 2-67 PERMISSIBLE RECRUITERS -- PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF PROSPECT Intent: To permit a coaching staff member who is the parent or legal guardian of a prospect to observe any activity (e.g., practices, contests, camps) involving that prospect. Source: NCAA Council (Recruiting Committee). NO. 2-72 RECRUITING -- COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSIONS -- CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS Intent: To permit conferences to provide to NCAA Youth Education through Sports (YES) clinic participants complimentary admissions to attend conference tournaments. Source: NCAA Council (National Youth Sports Program Committee). NO. 2-74 ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS FOR OFFICIAL VISIT PRIOR TO EARLY SIGNING PERIOD Intent: To eliminate the specific academic credentials set forth in NCAA Bylaw 13.7.1.2.4 that a student-athlete must achieve to receive an official visit prior to the early signing period for the National Letter of Intent. Source: NCAA Council (Academic Requirements Committee and Special Committee to Oversee Implementation of the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse). NO. 2-77 DE MINIMUS VIOLATIONS -- PROSPECTIVE AND ENROLLED STUDENT-ATHLETES Intent: To specify instances in which a de minimus violation will not render a prospect or enrolled student-athlete ineligible while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional violation. Source: NCAA Council (Eligibility Committee). NO. 2-79 VISIT UNRELATED TO RECRUITMENT -- NATIONAL STUDENT-ATHLETE DAY Intent: To exempt National Student-Athlete Day activities held on an institution's campus from the limitations on providing entertainment to a prospect. Source: NCAA Council (Minority Opportunities and Interest Committee). NO. 2-83 CAMPS AND CLINICS -- NYSP AND YES Intent: To confirm that it is permissible for coaches and student-athletes at member institutions to participate in the National Youth Sports Programs (NYSP) and NCAA Youth Education through Sports (YES) programs and that such participation is exempt from NCAA restrictions on camps and clinics. Source: NCAA Council (National Youth Sports Program Committee). NO. 2-84 POSITIVE DRUG TEST -- NON-NCAA ATHLETICS ORGANIZATION Intent: To authorize NCAA testing of student-athletes who test positive for banned substances by a non-NCAA athletics organization. Source: NCAA Council (Special Committee on Agents and Amateurism). NO. 2-85 VEHICLE REGISTRATION -- DIVISION I FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL Intent: To require counters in the sports of Division I football and basketball to register with the department of athletics any vehicles owned or regularly used by the student-athlete and to include such a requirement as part of the student-athlete statement. Source: NCAA Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports). NO. 2-86 AGENT DOCUMENTS -- PARENTS AND RELATIVES Intent: To require student-athletes and their parents and relatives to provide relevant documents to authorized institutional representatives related to an agent inquiry and include such a requirement as part of the student-athlete statement. Source: NCAA Council (Special Committee on Agents and Amateurism). NO. 2-88 ELIGIBILITY -- PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OLYMPICS Intent: To permit a graduate student to practice with an institution's team, provided the individual's participation is recommended by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) or the national governing body; the practice takes place only at the institution(s) the individual currently attends or previously attended as a graduate student; the participation involves an individual sport or the sport of rowing or synchronized swimming; the individual does not participate in any coaching activities; and, in the case of a student-athlete with eligibility remaining, the participation occurs during the academic year immediately preceding the Olympic Games. Source: NCAA Council (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-90 ELIGIBILITY -- PARTICIPATION AFTER 21ST BIRTHDAY Intent: To specify that in Division II, as in Division I, any participation by an individual in organized competition during any 12-month period after the individual's 21st birthday and prior to initial full-time enrollment at a collegiate institution counts as a year of competition in that sport. Source: NCAA Council (Division II Steering Committee). NO. 2-91 INITIAL ELIGIBILITY -- CORE-CURRICULUM TIME LIMITATION Intent: To permit students with learning disabilities to use all core courses completed prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment as specified. Source: NCAA Council (Academic Requirements Committee). NO. 2-92 INITIAL ELIGIBILITY -- CORE-CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS -- STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES Intent: To clarify that the NCAA Academic Requirements Committee (as opposed to the high-school principal) has final authority to determine whether high-school courses for students with disabilities are core courses; further, to delete all references to the word "handicapped" in Bylaw 14.3.1.3.4. Source: NCAA Council (Academic Requirements Committee). NO. 2-93 PASS-FAIL GRADES Intent: To permit the use of individual core courses graded on a pass/fail basis for purposes of satisfying the core-curriculum requirements, with the understanding that the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse shall assign the course the lowest passing grade at that high school, which in some instances could be a grade of "D." Source: NCAA Council (Academic Requirements Committee). NO. 2-94 INITIAL ELIGIBILITY -- EARLY ADMISSIONS PROGRAM WAIVER Intent: To permit a student to receive a waiver of the initial-eligibility requirements pursuant to an early admissions program, even if the student has not satisfied the core-course requirements in the area of English (i.e., lacking four years of English). Source: NCAA Council (Academic Requirements Committee). NO. 2-98 DIVISION III EXCEPTION TO TRANSFER RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT Intent: To permit a student-athlete who previously participated in intercollegiate athletics to transfer to a Division III institution and be immediately eligible for competition only if the student-athlete was academically and athletically eligible for competition at his or her previous institution at the time the student-athlete transferred from that institution. Source: NCAA Council (Division III Steering Committee and Academic Requirements Committee) and Presidents Commission (Division III Subcommittee). NO. 2-101 ELIGIBILITY -- OUTSIDE COMPETITION Intent: To eliminate the requirement that the NCAA Council approve waivers of specified national and international outside competitions. Source: NCAA Council (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee). NO. 2-103 FINANCIAL AID -- DIVISION I EMPLOYMENT EARNINGS Intent: To permit Division I student-athletes to earn legitimate on- and off-campus employment income during semester or term time, provided such income in combination with other financial aid included in the student-athlete's individual limit does not exceed the student's cost of attendance at the institution. Source: NCAA Council (Special Committee on Agents and Amateurism and Committee of Financial Aid and Amateurism). NO. 2-106 FINANCIAL AID -- EXEMPTED GOVERNMENT GRANTS Intent: To include welfare benefits received from a state or federal government among the exempted government grants set forth in 15.2.4.2. Source: NCAA Council (Committee on Financial Aid and Amateurism). NO. 2-110 PERMISSIBLE EXPENSES -- SPOUSE/CHILDREN OF STUDENT-ATHLETES Intent: To permit a Division I institution to provide the cost of actual and necessary expenses (including expenses associated with team entertainment functions) for the spouse and children of eligible student-athletes to accompany the student-athlete to any NCAA championship in which the student-athlete is a participant. Source: NCAA Council (Executive Committee). NO. 2-112 PERMISSIBLE EXPENSES -- NATIONAL STUDENT-ATHLETE DAY Intent: To permit an institution to pay actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete to participate in activities and events associated with National Student-Athlete Day. Source: NCAA Council (Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee). NO. 2-126 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- SPRING PRACTICE -- DIVISIONS I AND II FOOTBALL Intent: In Divisions I and II football, to specify that no contact shall occur during the first two spring football practice sessions, to reduce the number of practice sessions that may involve contact from 10 to five and to preclude the use of shoulder pads during all noncontact practice sessions. Source: NCAA Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports). NO. 2-130 NCAA MEMBERSHIP RESTRUCTURING -- NATIONAL COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS Intent: To create procedures for the establishment of a National Collegiate championship in the revised membership structure. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Transition Oversight Committee). NO. 2-132 MEMBERSHIP RECLASSIFICATION -- NOTIFICATION AND CHAMPIONSHIPS ELIGIBILITY Intent: To establish a two-year notification requirement for institutions that intend to reclassify a sport from Division II to Division I and to exclude those institutions that have forwarded such notice to the national office from eligibility for any Division II NCAA championship in that sport. Source: NCAA Council (Division II Steering Committee). NO. 2-133 DIVISION II MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS -- PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT Intent: To revise the Division II philosophy statement. Source: NCAA Council and Presidents Commission (Division II Presidents Council and Management Council Transition Teams). NO. 2-136 ATHLETICS CERTIFICATION -- OPERATING PRINCIPLES Intent: To incorporate sportsmanship and ethical conduct as specific components in the athletics certification program. Source: NCAA Council (Committee on Athletics Certification). NO. 2-139 RESOLUTION: DIVISION I BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL A resolution in Division I directing the creation of a special committee (representative of academic, competitive and financial concerns) to explore the possibility of redefining the competitive seasons for baseball and softball by moving the NCAA championships for these sports to late June, and directing the special committee to submit proposed legislation within one year of adoption of this resolution for the purpose of moving the baseball and softball traditional seasons accordingly. Source: All members of the Big Ten Conference. Playing-and-practice-seasons deregulation package The NCAA Legislative Review Committee has identified the following proposals to facilitate the deregulation of the Association's playing-and-practice-seasons legislation. The NCAA Council has approved the submission of these proposals to the membership as a "deregulation package." While these proposals are being submitted as a package, they each will be voted on separately in the appropriate business sessions. NO. 1 ELIGIBILITY -- HARDSHIP WAIVER Intent: To specify that the percentage calculation for purposes of meeting the hardship waiver in those sports that are subject to date-of-competition limitations shall be based on the institution's number of completed dates of competition (as opposed to varsity events). Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 2 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- COLLEGE-PROFESSIONAL CONTESTS Intent: To delete the general principle set forth in 17.01.2 that precludes an institution from scheduling intercollegiate athletics contests in conjunction with professional sports contests or exhibitions (e.g., as a preliminary event). Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 3 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- CAMPS AND CLINICS Intent: To delete the general principle set forth in 17.01.3 that the Association's legislation may prescribe limits on the number of student-athletes in a particular sport who may be employed (e.g., as counselors or lecturers) or otherwise participate in camps and clinics. Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 4 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- DIVISIONS I AND II Intent: In Divisions I and II, to simplify the legislation related to the length of playing seasons, the beginning of preseason practice, first date of competition and the end of the regular season by deleting all references to traditional and nontraditional playing seasons in Bylaw 17 and establishing a single date for the start of preseason practice, competition and the end of the regular season in each sport; further, to eliminate the weekly option and establish a single option using a specific number of days in determining the length of an institution's playing season [i.e., 132 days in Divisions I and II team sports (other than football and basketball); 144 days in Divisions I and II individual sports; 156 days for Divisions I and II institutions that sponsor both indoor and outdoor track and cross country; 156 days for Division II institutions that sponsor indoor/outdoor track combined]. Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 5 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- DIVISIONS I AND II EXTRAORDINARY PERSONNEL LOSSES Intent: To delete the legislation that permits the NCAA Council to approve waivers to the length of the playing season for an institution that has suffered extraordinary personnel losses to its team due to an accident or illness of a disastrous nature. Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 6 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- OUT-OF-SEASON PRACTICE -- BASKETBALL Intent: To delete the exception to out-of-season basketball practice that permits members of an institution's basketball team to participate in a wheelchair basketball game against an established wheelchair team following the close of the institution's regular basketball season. Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 7 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- DIVISION III -- CONTEST/DATE OF COMPETITION EXEMPTIONS Intent: To delete the legislation applicable in each Division III sport in which a Division III championship is conducted, which prohibits a Division III institution located outside of Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico from exempting from counting toward the maximum number of contests or dates of competition those contests or dates scheduled on a foreign tour taken in a sport in the same four-year period that the institution participated in contests or dates of competition in that sport on a single regular-season trip to Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico. Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee). NO. 8 PLAYING AND PRACTICE SEASONS -- OUTSIDE COMPETITION -- BASKETBALL Intent: To delete the requirement that the NCAA Council must approve participation of sanctioned outside-team tours in the sport of basketball. Source: NCAA Council (Legislative Review Committee).
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