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

No. 49 Conditions and Obligations of Conference Membership -- Chief Executive Officer Authority

Intent: To require institutional chief executive officers (CEOs) to have ultimate responsibility and final authority for the operation of Division III member conferences. Adopted, 232-10-1**.

No. 50 Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committees

Intent: To require each Division III multisport member conference to establish a conference student-athlete advisory committee as a condition and obligation of membership. Adopted, 185-69-3**.

No. 51 All-Star Contests

Intent: To delete all references to the all-star contest certification process and to preclude student-athletes in all sports with eligibility remaining from participating in all-star contests. Adopted, 245-0-0.

No. 52 Season of Competition -- Minimum Amount of Competition

Intent: To eliminate scrimmages with outside competition from counting as a season of competition for student-athletes. Adopted, 193-32-4.

No. 53 Two-Year College Transfers -- Two-Year Nonparticipation Exception

Intent: To permit two-year college transfer students to use the same two-year nonparticipation exception that is available to four-year college transfer students. Adopted, 239-3-1*.

No. 54 Maximum Contest Limitations -- Student-Athlete -- Basketball, Field Hockey and Soccer

Intent: In the sports of Division III basketball, field hockey and soccer, to permit a student-athlete to participate in one junior varsity contest and one varsity contest on the same day and at the same site and have such participation count as only one contest. Withdrawn.

No. 55 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Competition in Nontraditional Segment

Intent: To prohibit Division III institutions from competing against outside competition during the nontraditional segment, except in the sports of golf and tennis per Bylaw 17.1.11.4. Referred as amended to the Division III Presidents Council, 192-143-1.

No. 56 Women's Championships -- 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). Adopted, 266-18-5.

No. 57 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 as specified. [Note: The proposed changes involve common provisions, and thus must be approved by Divisions I, II and III acting independently.] Adopted, 262-3-17.

No. 58 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, 278-8-12.

No. 59 Conduct of Athletics Personnel -- Endorsement of Commercial Products

Intent: To eliminate the prohibition of 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 approval by the institution's chief executive officer. Adopted.

No. 60 Conduct of Athletics Personnel -- Income from Sale of Stock

Intent: To delete legislation that directly governs an institution's staff member from realizing income from the sale of stock in a professional sports organization. Adopted.

No. 61 Amateurism -- Funds from Professional Sports Organization

Intent: To delete the list of conditions that preclude a member institution from accepting funds from a professional sports organization. Adopted.

No. 62 Recruiting -- Nonpermissible Lists

Intent: To delete nonpermissible lists that relate to Bylaws 13.02.5.2, 13.4.4.1 and 13.6.1.1. Adopted.

No. 63 Nonpermissible Recruiting Expenses

Intent: To delete legislation that precludes an institution from providing a student-athlete with transportation or expenses to recruit a prospect except when a student-athlete serves as a student host. Adopted.

No. 64 Transportation on an Official Visit

Intent: To delete legislation relating to transportation on an official visit. Adopted.

No. 65 Entertainment, Reimbursement and Employment of Hich-School/College Preparatory School/Two-Year College Coaches

Intent: To amend legislation relating to entertainment of a high-school, college-preparatory school or two-year college coach by an institutional staff member. Adopted.

No. 66 Publicity -- Comments on Prospects

Intent: To amend legislation relating to an institution commenting on a prospect's ability. Adopted.

No. 67 Publicity -- Intent to Enroll

Intent: To delete legislation that prohibits an institution from publicizing a prospect's intention to enroll. Adopted.

No. 68 Announcement of Acceptance

Intent: To amend legislation relating to the announcement of a prospect's acceptance of the institution's written offer of admission. Adopted.

No. 69 Use of Recruiting Funds

Intent: To delete legislation relating to the use of recruiting funds. Adopted.

No. 70 Summer Financial Aid

Intent: To permit Division III institutions to provide summer financial aid to student-athletes in accordance with institutional policy applicable to the general student body. Adopted.

No. 71 Awards/Benefits -- Nonpermissible lists

Intent: To delete nonpermissible lists relating to awards and benefits that an institution may provide to student-athletes. Adopted.

No. 72 Complimentary Admissions and Ticket Benefits -- Permissible Procedures

Intent: To amend legislation that permits institutions to provide complimentary tickets only to persons designated by the student-athlete. Adopted.

No. 73 Benefits for Student-athletes

Intent: To permit Division III institutions to provide benefits to student-athletes only if such benefits are available to students in general. Adopted.

No. 74 Medical Expenses

Intent: To amend legislation that permits institutions to provide medical expense benefits incidental to a student-athlete's participation in intercollegiate athletics. Adopted.

No. 75 Awards and Benefits

Intent: To delete specific legislation relating to awards and benefits. Adopted.

No. 76 Expenses for Competition

Intent: To amend permissible actual and necessary expenses and departure/return regulations by reformatting the legislation. Withdrawn.

No. 77 Expenses for Practice and Competition -- During Vacation Period

Intent: To amend legislation relating to permissible team transportation that may be provided by an institution to a student-athlete that occurs during a vacation period. Withdrawn.

No. 78 Missed Class Time for Practice -- Golf

Intent: To delete legislation that permits student-athletes in the sport of golf to miss class time for practice activities. Adopted.

No. 79 Out-of-Season, Noncollegiate, Amateur Competition -- Football

Intent: To delete legislation that permits one student-athlete from a member institution's football team to practice or compete as a member of an outside amateur football team outside of the playing season. Adopted.

No. 80 Permissible Expenses -- Meals

Intent: To permit an institution to provide meal expenses to a student-athlete who serves on a university committee when he or she misses a regular meal as a result of a committee meeting conducted when regular institutional dining facilities are open. Adopted*.

No. 81 Housing and Meals -- Vacation-Period Expenses

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

No. 82 Practice Expenses -- Women's Rowing -- Weather Exception

Intent: To permit intercollegiate teams in the sport of rowing to travel up to 200 miles, outside the institution's state, to engage in practice activities that occur during an institution's academic term when necessitated by weather conditions. Adopted*.

No. 83 Permissible Benefits -- Reasonable Refreshments

Intent: To permit an institution to provide its student-athletes with reasonable refreshments for student-athlete educational and business meetings and, on an occasional basis, for celebratory events. Adopted*.

No. 84 Annual Exemptions -- Alumni Contests -- Division III Basketball

Intent: To permit Division III institutions to exempt an alumni contest in the sport of basketball. Adopted.

No. 85 Annual Exemptions -- Alumni Meet -- Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field

Intent: To permit Division III institutions to exempt one date of competition in indoor and outdoor track and field each year with an alumni team of the institution. Adopted.

No. 86 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Contest Exemptions

Intent: To exempt, on an annual basis, the National Wrestling Coaches Association meet from the maximum contest limitations in the sport of wrestling. Adopted.

No. 87 International Competition -- Summers

Intent: To specify that the Management Council or an institution may certify international competition held during an institution's summer vacation period, which shall not affect the student-athlete's seasons of eligibility. Adopted as amended.

No. 88 Membership Requirements -- Minimum Participants -- Division III Women's Fencing

Intent: To specify that in the sport of women's fencing, an institution's team shall include a minimum of five participants in each contest that is counted toward meeting the minimum-contest requirements. Adopted*.

No. 89 NCAA Championships -- Bench Personnel -- Logo Restrictions

Intent: To specify that the logo restrictions on student-athletes' apparel set forth in Bylaw 12.5.5 apply during NCAA championships to all personnel (e.g., coaches, trainers, managers) who are in the team bench area for practices and games, and who participate in NCAA news conferences. Defeated.

No. 90 De Minimis Violations -- Transportation on Unofficial Visits

Intent: To specify that a prospective student-athlete on an unofficial visit may not receive transportation other than transportation to view off-campus practice and competition sites in the prospect's sport and other institutional facilities within a 30-mile radius of the institution's campus; further, to specify that a violation of this legislation is de minimis in nature and will not render an enrolled student-athlete ineligible, while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional violation. Adopted*.

No. 91 De Minimis Violation -- Requirement for Practice

Intent: To specify that if a student-athlete practices while enrolled in less than a full-time program of studies, such a violation is considered de minimis and will not render a student-athlete ineligible while retaining the fact that such a violation is still considered an institutional violation. Adopted*.

No. 92 Season of Competition Waiver -- 60-Day Deadline

Intent: To delete the requirement that to be granted a season of competition waiver, an institution must submit its waiver request not later than 60 days from the date on which the institution first has knowledge that the student-athlete competed while ineligible. Adopted*.

No. 93 Permissible Benefits -- NCAA Research Studies

Intent: To permit a student-athlete to receive compensation for participation in specified NCAA research studies.Adopted*.

No. 94 Incidental-Expense Waivers

Intent: To specify that an institution may provide a student-athlete a specific expense that has been previously approved by the NCAA Division III Management Council, or a committee designated by the Management Council, as incidental to the student-athlete's participation in athletics without submitting a formal waiver request to the national office. Adopted*.

*Effective immediately. ** Effective August 1, 2001.

Note: These were the votes recorded by the electronic voting equipment. Due to technical difficulties, all of the votes may not have been recorded.