Legislative actions taken January 10 at the Division II business session of the 2000 NCAA Convention in San Diego:

No. 2 Self-Study Report -- Division II

Intent: To require institutions that have completed the four-year provisional membership period to complete an institutional self-study in the first year of active membership. Adopted.

No. 3 Expenses for Participation in Olympic Exhibitions

Intent: To permit individuals to receive actual and necessary expenses to participate in Olympic tours/exhibitions involving Olympic team members and members of the national team. Adopted.

No. 4 Amateurism -- Developmental Training Expenses

Intent: To permit currently enrolled student-athletes (as well as prospective student-athletes) to receive funding to cover actual and necessary developmental training expenses that are approved by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) or appropriate national governing body (NGB). Adopted.

No. 5 De Minimis Violations -- Report Distribution

Intent: To specify instances in which a de minimis violation will not render a prospective or enrolled student-athlete ineligible while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional violation. Adopted.*

No. 6 De Minimis Violations -- Unofficial Visit Transportation

Intent: To specify instances in which a de minimis violation will not render a prospective or enrolled student-athlete ineligible while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional violation. Adopted.*

No. 7 Recruiting Publicity -- Contests Involving National Teams

Intent: To allow athletics department staff members to serve as announcers or commentators during national team events, including the Olympic Games, regardless of whether there are prospective student-athletes involved in such competition. Adopted.

No. 8 De Minimis Violations -- Full-Time Enrollment -- Division II

Intent: To specify instances in which a de minimis violation will not render a student-athlete ineligible while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional violation. Adopted.*

No.9 De Minimis Violation -- Declaration of Degree Program -- Division II

Intent: To specify instances in which a de minimis violation will not render an enrolled student-athlete ineligible while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional violation. Adopted.*

No. 10 Four-Year College Transfers -- Discontinued Academic Program Exception

Intent: To allow an institution to grant a discontinued academic program exception instead of submitting the request to the Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee. Adopted.

No. 11 Scheduling Requirements -- Geographical Waivers

Intent: To establish deadlines for submitting waiver requests related to Division II scheduling requirements in football and men's and women's basketball. Adopted.* (No. 11A moot due to adoption of Proposal No. 23.)

No. 12 NCAA Foreign-Student Records Committee

Intent: To establish a standing common foreign-student records committee to assist in reviewing initial-eligibility standards for international students. [Note The proposed changes involve common provisions, and thus, must be approved by Divisions I and II acting independently.] Adopted.*

No. 13 Amendment Process -- Emergency Legislation

Intent: To establish authority for the Division II Presidents Council to adopt emergency legislation when appropriate. Adopted, 203-1-0.*

No. 14 Eligibility -- Additional Season of Competition Waiver

Intent: To permit a student-athlete to regain a season of competition when the student-athlete utilizes a season of competition prior to the determination of his/her eligibility status. Adopted, 164-42-2.

No. 15 Initial Eligibility -- Core-Curriculum Requirements

Intent: To redefine a core course for purposes of meeting the initial-eligibility core-curriculum requirement, as specified. Adopted.

No. 16 Initial Eligibility -- Core-Curriculum Requirements -- Nontraditional Courses

Intent: To permit independent-study courses, correspondence courses, Internet-based courses, distance-learning courses, individualized-instruction courses and courses taught by similar means to be used to meet the core-curriculum requirements, provided certain criteria are met. Adopted.

No. 17 Satisfactory Progress -- International Baccalaureate Program Examinations

Intent: To allow institutions to grant satisfactory-progress credit through the international baccalaureate examinations. Adopted.

No. 18 Financial Aid -- Board Allowance

Intent: To permit an institution, at its discretion, to provide a student-athlete receiving financial aid that covers the cost of meals with a board allowance that consists of three meals per day, even if the institution's maximum permissible board allowance for all students represents a lesser cost figure. Adopted, 167-34-4.

No. 19 Housing and Meals -- Vacation-Period Expenses

Intent: To specify that an institution may provide room and board expenses for specific periods of time to student-athletes who return to the institution's campus during a vacation period following institutional competition. Adopted, 194-2-1.

No. 20 Women's Championship -- Sponsorship Criteria -- Minimum Period

Intent: To specify that a new championship may be established in a women's sport if the minimum number of sponsoring institutions exist for one academic year (rather than for two consecutive academic years). [Note The proposed change involves a common provision, and thus must be approved by Divisions I, II and III acting independently.] Adopted, 187-14-4.

No. 21 National Collegiate Championship -- Women's Ice Hockey

Intent: To establish a National Collegiate Championship in the sport of women's ice hockey, effective 2000-01, and to establish a women's ice hockey committee. [Note The proposed changes involve common provisions, and thus must be approved by Divisions I, II and III acting independently.] Adopted.

No. 22 National Collegiate Championship -- Women's Water Polo

Intent: To establish a National Collegiate Championship in the sport of women's water polo, effective 2000-01, and to establish a women's water polo committee. [Note The proposed changes involve common provisions, and thus must be approved by Divisions I, II and III acting independently.] Adopted.

No. 23 Geographic Scheduling Waiver -- Football

Intent: To eliminate the geographic scheduling waiver in the sport of football that is based on athletically related aid awarded by the institution. Adopted, 115-3-2 (football-playing institutions only).

No. 24 (Dereg. 1) Use of Institutional Name or Logo

Intent: To eliminate the prohibition on athletics department's staff members using the institution's name or logo in the endorsement of commercial products or services for personal gain without prior written approval by the institution's chief executive officer. Adopted, 183-8-2.

No. 25 (Dereg. 2) Personnel -- Athletically Related Income

Intent: To eliminate the requirement than an institution must include, in contracts and letters of appointment, a stipulation that requires staff members to receive prior approval for the chief executive officer for all athletically related outside income. Adopted, 191-4-1.

No. 26 (Dereg. 3) Outside-Income Restrictions

Intent: To eliminate the outside-income restrictions for Division II coaches. Adopted, 203-3-1. No. 26E moot due to adoption of Proposal No. 24B.

No. 27 (Dereg. 4) Employment with Professional Sports Organizations -- Nonpermissible Earnings

Intent: To permit institutional staff members to be employed by professional sports organizations during times in which they are not under contract with the institution. Adopted, 195-7-2.

No. 28 (Dereg. 5) Permissible Employment or Income Arrangements -- Professional Sports Organizations

Intent: To eliminate legislation stating it is permissible for employees of the institution who are not associated with the athletics department to be employed by professional sports organizations. Adopted, 191-1-2.

No. 29 (Dereg. 6) Recruiting -- Telephone Calls by Representatives of Athletics Interests

Intent: To prohibit "representatives of athletics interests" from making telephone calls to prospective student-athletes. Adopted, 188-14-0.

No. 30 (Dereg. 7) Recruiting -- Contact and Telephone Calls

Intent: To set June 15 immediately preceding the prospect's senior year in high school as the first permissible date for contacts and telephone calls in all Division II sports. Adopted, 198-4-1.

No. 31 (Dereg. 8) Recruiting -- Evaluations

Intent: To eliminate the restriction on the number of evaluations an institution is allowed to have per prospect per academic year. Adopted, 136-70-2.

No. 32 (Dereg. 9) Recruiting Materials

Intent: To eliminate the list of permissible recruiting materials that a Division II institution may provide to a prospect. Adopted, 156-52-3.

No. 33 (Dereg. 10) Recruiting -- Complimentary Admissions (Official Visits)

Intent: To allow institutions to provide complimentary admissions to prospects on official visits in the same manner such admissions are provided during unofficial visits. Adopted, 200-1-0.

No. 34 (Dereg. 11) Recruiting -- Division II Tryouts

Intent: To permit an institution to provide one tryout per institution per sport. Adopted, 202-2-2.

No. 35 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls

Intent: To permit an institution to make unlimited telephone calls to prospective student-athletes subsequent to the calendar day on which the prospect has signed the institution's written offer of admission or financial aid, even if the institution subscribes to the National Letter of Intent: program. Defeated.

No. 36 Offers and Inducements -- Employment of Two-Year Prospects

Intent: To specify that the arrangement of employment by an institution for a two-year college prospect shall be permitted only if the prospect has officially withdrawn from or has completed requirements for graduation at the two-year college. Adopted.*

No. 37 Recruiting -- Video Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to produce and show electronically stored information to a prospect and his or her coach, as specified. Adopted.*

No. 38 Advertisements and Promotions -- Championships Posters

Intent: To permit an institution that hosts an NCAA or conference championship to produce a poster promoting the championship and send it to a high-school coach and/or his or her educational institution. Adopted.

No. 39 Official Visit -- Complimentary Admissions

Intent: To permit a prospect and a prospect's parents [or legal guardian(s)] or spouse to receive complimentary admission during an official visit to attend an institution's off-campus regular-season home contest, provided the site of the contest is located within a 30-mile radius of the institution's campus. Adopted.

No. 40 Nonscholastic-Based Basketball

Intent: To permit coaches in the sport of Division II basketball to participate in coaching activities involving nonscholastic-based teams, provided the participants have not entered the ninth grade. Adopted.*

No. 41 Season of Competition Waiver -- 60-Day Deadline

Intent: To delete the 60-day deadline provision from the application requirements for a season of competition waiver. Adopted.*

No. 42 Contest Exemption -- Division II Football -- Mineral Water Bowl

Intent: To permit teams from the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference to participate in the Mineral Water Bowl and to exempt such participation from the limitations governing the permissible number of contests. Adopted.

No. 43 Maximum Dates of Competition -- Division II Women's Lacrosse

Intent: To permit a Division II institution in the sport of women's lacrosse to engage in 17 dates of competition during the championship segment and five dates of competition during another segment. Adopted.

No. 44 Preseason Practice Start Date -- Division II Tennis

Intent: To specify that an institution that is a member of a conference that conducts its only conference championship in tennis during the fall may commence practice August 24 or the institution's first day of classes, whichever is earlier. Adopted.

No. 45 First Date of Competition -- Division II Tennis

Intent: To specify that an institution that is a member of a conference that conducts its only conference championship in tennis during the fall may conduct its first contest or practice match with outside competition September 1 or the preceding Friday if September 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday. Adopted.

No. 46 Division II Membership -- Transfer of Provisional Membership

Intent: To permit the Division II Management Council, upon recommendation from the Division II Membership Committee, to waive one year of the four-year provisional membership period, if an institution transfers its provisional membership from Division III or Division I to Division II. Adopted.

No. 47 Change of Division Membership -- Notification and Championships Eligibility

Intent: To establish a three-year notification period for institutions that intend to reclassify from Division II to Division III; further, to exclude those institutions that have forwarded such notice to the national office from eligibility for any Division II championship and from service on Division II committees. Adopted.

No. 48 Change of Division Membership -- Committee Service

Intent: To prohibit institutional staff members and student-athletes from serving on Division II committees when the individual's institution has forwarded to the national office intent to reclassify to Division I. Adopted.

*Effective immediately.