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A total of 63 proposals -- 39 in Division II and 24 in Division III -- are included in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation for the 2002 Convention in Indianapolis.
The publication was mailed September 21 to the Divisions II and III memberships.
Included are 46 proposals produced from the division governance structures -- 34 sponsored by the Division II Presidents Council and 12 sponsored by the Division III Presidents Council.
Also included are five Division II proposals and 12 Division III proposals sponsored previously by the membership. Sponsors of those proposals were given an opportunity between August 15 and September 15 to change the proposals in any manner that is germane to the original proposals.
The Division II proposals from the Presidents Council include a Bylaw 17 deregulation package. The nine proposals would:
Eliminate the requirement that individual skill instruction must be requested by the student-athlete.
Redefine what is considered a countable athletically related activity.
Limit participation by multisport participants to 20 hours per week of countable athletically related activities.
Preclude exempted scrimmages from being counted as three hours of the permissible 20 hours and count as the actual duration of the activity.
Permit off-campus intrasquad scrimmages during the preseason period.
Eliminate the lists of annual exemptions and once-in-four-year exemptions in each section of Bylaw 17 and create two all-inclusive lists that will apply to all sports (amended to indicate that a discretionary exemption in basketball, specifically an exhibition contest, can be played against a non-Division II four-year institution rather than restricting the contest only to Divisions I or III opponents).
Redefine playing and practice season regulations for fall and spring sports except outdoor track and field and other selected sports [amended to create an exception in golf and tennis to allow an institution to designate either (or both) of those sports as a fall sport and utilize playing season dates for fall sports and follow nonchampionship segment requirements during the spring and be eligible for participation in the NCAA championship].
Eliminate the prohibition against Sunday practice during spring football.
Preclude student-athletes in team sports from missing class to participate in contests conducted in the nonchampionship segment.
In Division III, the package of amateurism proposals that has been under review for several months will come to the Convention floor for a vote. The package being sponsored by the Division III Presidents Council is minus the "pay-for-play" element for prospective student-athletes that existed in earlier versions of the legislation. Under the current package, accepting a salary would make a prospective Division III student-athlete ineligible to compete and thus subject to the NCAA reinstatement process. That is different from the amateurism legislation Division II passed in January, which allows a prospect to accept compensation and then retain limited eligibility (provided there was no agent and no accompanying promotional contract).
Division III delegates also will consider legislation that would create a provisional membership random selection process to determine which six eligible institutions would be available for provisional membership each year assuming the membership moratorium is lifted as scheduled August 1, 2002. To be eligible to apply for provisional membership, an institution must sponsor at least five sports (at least three of which must be team sports) for each gender, and may not award any athletically related aid at the time of application. Institutions also must complete a one-year "exploratory period" before starting the provisional membership process.
The Division III Membership Committee had determined that six was the maximum annual number of provisional members that could be provided with appropriate services under the division's new comprehensive four-year education plan based on in-person meetings and educational opportunities.
If the legislation passes, the first selection would be held in conjunction with the June 2002 Division III Membership Committee meeting. The first six eligible institutions chosen would begin provisional membership on September 1, 2003. The next six eligible institutions chosen by random selection at that time (if necessary) would start their provisional membership September 1, 2004.
Also of note in the Division III proposals is one that establishes a financial aid audit to ensure that Division III institutions comply with Division III financial aid regulations. The process requires each institution to have an outside auditor examine 10 percent of the institution's student-athlete population compared with the institution's nonstudent-athlete population. Each institution would be responsible for reporting instances of noncompliance to the NCAA Division III Financial Aid and Awards Committee for review and disposition.
Amendments-to-amendments
The Second Publication of Proposed Legislation was mailed to chief executive officers, faculty athletics representatives, directors of athletics, senior woman administrators and compliance coordinators at Divisions II and III institutions. Conference commissioners also received copies.
From now until November 1, the Divisions II and III Presidents Councils can submit amendments to a proposal for the 2002 Convention.
Also in Divisions II and III, amendments can be submitted by eight active member institutions (or one active conference on behalf of eight or more conference members).
Amendments-to-amendments at this stage of the legislative calendar must adhere to the traditional Association limitation -- they are not permitted to increase the change in legislation put forth in the circularized proposal.
Amendments-to-amendments must be received in the national office by 5 p.m. (Central time) November 1. No amendments-to-amendments may be submitted after that date, except that the Presidents Councils have the authority to submit amendments-to-amendments at the Convention if deemed necessary.
Forms for submitting amendments-to-amendments will be mailed with the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation to chief executive officers.
The Official Notice of the Convention, which will include all proposed legislation and properly submitted amendments-to-amendments, will be mailed to the Divisions II and III membership by November 15.
Summary of intent statements
Following are the statements of intent for the 46 new Divisions II and III proposals for the 2002 Convention that appear in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation.
The list includes proposals produced from the Divisions II and III governance structures.
Intent statements for the 17 proposals from the Divisions II and III membership appeared in the July 30 issue of The NCAA News. Those proposals also appear in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation, but are not repeated in this summary.
The proposals below are numbered as they appear in the Second Publication of Proposed Legislation (the numeral "2" appearing before each proposal refers to the publication).
Division II legislative proposals
No. 2-1 Membership -- Voting Conference Requirements
Intent: To specify sports-sponsorship requirements necessary for multisport voting conference membership.
Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-2 Member Conference -- Eligibility
Intent:
To establish a provisional membership category for prospective Division II voting conference members.Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].
Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-3 Membership -- Provisional Member Exploratory Period
Intent:
To require institutions that desire to join Division II to complete an "exploratory period" before submitting a provisional membership application.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-4 Provisional Membership -- Rules-Compliance Progression
Intent:
To require provisional member institutions to satisfy specified membership requirements in years one and two of the four-year provisional membership period.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Committee)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-5 Membership -- Annual Limit on Provisional Members
Intent:
To provide the Management Council with the authority to establish an annual limit on the number of institutions that will be permitted to begin the four-year provisional membership period.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-6 Provisional Membership -- Eligibility
Intent:
To establish requirements that provisional member applicants must satisfy for an application to be considered.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-7 Provisional Membership -- Application Fee
Intent:
To indicate that the provisional membership application fee will be determined by the Management Council as specified.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-9 Recruiting -- Advertisements
Intent:
To permit institutions to place general institutional, summer-camp and summer-school advertisements in recruiting publications and high-school and two-year college game programs.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-10 Recruiting -- Institutional Control
Intent:
To eliminate the requirement that funds expended for recruiting purposes must be deposited with the institution.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-11 Eligibility -- Joint College/High-School Program
Intent:
To modify requirements related to joint high-school/college programs that would begin a student-athlete's eligibility under the 10-semester/15-quarter rule, as specified.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Administrative Review Subcommittee)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-13 Eligibility/Seasons of Competition -- Hardship Waiver
Intent: To specify that a student-athlete's eligibility for a medical hardship should be determined by the number of scheduled contests or dates of competition rather than the number of completed contests or dates of competition.
Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-14 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Foreign Tour
Intent:
To permit a student-athlete who qualified for a hardship waiver during the previous academic year to engage in competition on an institution's foreign tour during the summer vacation period at the conclusion of that academic year without using a season of competition.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-15 Satisfactory-Progress
Waivers -- Independent Institutions
Intent:
To require that satisfactory-progress waivers submitted by independent institutions be administered by the NCAA Division II Academic Requirements Committee.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-16 Eligibility -- Satisfactory Progress -- Correspondence, Extension and Distance-Learning Courses
Intent: To allow use of correspondence, extension and distance learning courses to meet satisfactory-progress requirements, under specified conditions.
Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-17 Two-Year College Transfers -- Eligibility for Practice -- Partial Qualifiers
Intent:
To permit two-year college transfer student-athletes who were partial qualifiers to practice when transfer requirements for competition are not satisfied.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-18 Eligibility -- Transfer Residence Requirement
Intent:
To permit a student-athlete to transfer and immediately be eligible when the student-athlete's institution loses accreditation.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-19 Eligibility -- Outside Competition -- World University Games
Intent:
To include the World University Games as an exception to the outside-competition legislation.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-20 (Dereg. No. 1) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Individual Skill Instruction
Intent:
To eliminate the requirement that individual skill instruction be requested by the student-athlete.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-21 (Dereg. No. 2) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Countable Athletically Related Activities
Intent:
To revise the definition of a countable athletically related activities as specified.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-22 (Dereg. No. 3) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Weekly Time Limitations
Intent:
To limit participation by multiple-sport student-athletes to 20 hours per week of countable athletically related activities.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-23 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Weekly Hour Limitations -- Football
Intent:
In the sport of football, to permit student-athletes to view a maximum of two hours of game film per week as part of the permissible eight hours of required weight-training and conditioning activities that may occur during the academic year outside of the playing season.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-24 (Dereg. No. 4) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Competition-Day Time Limitations
Intent:
To specify that for purposes of counting time limits for athletically related activities, scrimmages shall count as the actual duration of the activity.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-25 (Dereg. No. 5) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Preseason Off-Campus Intrasquad Scrimmage
Intent:
To permit off-campus intrasquad scrimmages during the preseason practice period.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-26 (Dereg. No. 6) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Missed Class Time
Intent:
To prohibit student-athletes from missing class time for competition conducted in the nonchampionship segment in team sports.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-27 (Dereg. No. 7) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Annual Exemptions
Intent:
To eliminate the lists of annual exemptions and once-in-four-year exemptions in each section of Bylaw 17 (i.e., each sport) and create two all-inclusive lists that will apply to all sports.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-28 (Dereg. No. 8) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Permissible Dates and Out-of-Season Activities
Intent:
To redefine playing and practice season regulations for fall and spring sports except outdoor track and field and other selected sports.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-29 (Dereg. No. 9) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Football Spring Practice
Intent:
To eliminate the prohibition against Sunday practice during spring football.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-32 Membership -- Reclassification from Divisions I or III
Intent:
To specify that an institution declaring an intent to reclassify to Division II from Divisions I or III must satisfy Division II sports-sponsorship requirements at the time of declaration.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-33 Membership Requirements -- Philosophy Statement
Intent:
To revise the Division II philosophy statement as specified.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-34 Membership Requirements -- Philosophy Statement
Intent:
To revise the Division II philosophy statement as specified.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-35 Membership Requirements -- Minimum Financial Aid Requirement
Intent:
To establish a minimum financial aid requirement, as specified.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
August 1, 2005 for those institutions that are Division II active or provisional members as of August 1, 2001; immediately for any institution applying for provisional membership after January 14, 2002.No. 2-36 Membership Requirements -- Minimum Sports Sponsorship
Intent:
To increase the minimum sports-sponsorship requirement from four men's and four women's sports to five sports for each gender, or four men's and six women's sports; to allow sports classified in Division I to count toward the minimum requirement and to allow institutions sponsoring both indoor and outdoor track to receive "credit" for both sports and to establish separate minimum participants requirements for indoor track and outdoor track."Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
August 1, 2005 for institutions that are Division II active or provisional members as of August 1, 2001; Immediately for any institution applying for provisional membership or declaring its intent to reclassify to Division II on or after January 14, 2002.No. 2-37 Membership Requirements -- Scheduling Requirements
Intent:
To eliminate the requirement that a Division II institution must schedule and play more than 50 percent of its contests in football and men's and women's basketball in an academic year against Divisions I and II institutions.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].Effective date:
Immediately.No. 2-38 Committees -- Division II Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee -- Vacancies
Intent:
To increase the number of nominations required to be submitted by Division II conferences from two to four for vacancies on the national Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.Source:
NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee)].Effective date:
Immediately.Division III legislative proposals
No. 2-41 Membership -- Provisional Membership
Intent:
To require provisional members to meet specified requirements as part of the provisional membership program and pay an educational fee established by the Membership Committee and approved by the Management Council.Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Committee)].Effective date: Immediately.
No. 2-42 Senior Woman
Administrator -- Appointment
Intent: To specify that an institution that has a female director of athletics may appoint a different female as the senior woman administrator who reports to the director of athletics
Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Interpretations and Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-43 Athletics Personnel -- Employment with Professional Sports Organizations
Intent:
To eliminate the legislative prohibition regarding employment or income arrangements between institutional athletics department staff members and professional sports organizations.Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Interpretations and Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-44 Amateurism -- Competition with Professionals
Intent:
To permit an individual before initial full-time collegiate enrollment to participate on a professional team without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility.Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Task Force)].
Effective date: August 1, 2002; for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full time on or after August 1, 2002.
No. 2-46 Amateurism -- Contractual Agreement
Intent: To permit an individual before initial full-time collegiate enrollment to sign a contract or commitment of any kind to participate in professional athletics without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility.
Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Task Force)].Effective date: August 1, 2002; for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full time on or after August 1, 2002.
No. 2-47 Amateurism -- Prize Money Based on Place Finish
Intent:
To permit an individual before initial full-time collegiate enrollment to accept prize money based on place finish from the sponsor of an open athletics event, the United States Olympic Committee or the appropriate national governing body.Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Task Force)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002; for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full time on or after August 1, 2002.No. 2-48 Amateurism -- Professional Draft
Intent:
To permit an individual before initial full-time collegiate enrollment to enter a professional league's draft and/or be drafted without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility.Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Task Force)].
Effective date: August 1, 2002; for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full time on or after August 1, 2002.
No. 2-49 Eligibility -- Nontraditional Courses
Intent:
To permit a student-athlete to use hours earned in nontraditional courses in conjunction with hours taken in residence to meet the full-time enrollment requirement. Further, to permit hours earned in nontraditional courses to be used to meet satisfactory-progress requirements.Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Interpretations and Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-50 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition
Intent:
To specify that an individual who does not enroll full-time in a collegiate institution during the academic year following graduation of the individual's high-school class shall lose a season of competition during each calendar year or sport season in which the individual participates in outside competition; further, to require such an individual to fulfill an academic year in residency upon initial enrollment at an Division III institution.Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Task Force)].Effective date: August 1, 2002; for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full time on or after August 1, 2002.
No. 2-51 Financial Aid -- Audit Procedures
Intent:
To establish financial aid audit procedures and reporting requirements as specified.Bylaws: Amend Bylaw 15 by adding new 15.5, page 121, as follows:
Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Financial Aid and Awards Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-52 Playing and Practice
Seasons -- Scrimmage
Intent:
In all sports, to permit an institution to exempt one scrimmage or date of competition (per Bylaw 17) during the preseason-practice period of the traditional segment, provided the contest or date of competition is conducted in privacy and no class time is missed.Source:
NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Interpretations and Legislation Committee)].Effective date:
August 1, 2002.No. 2-55 Playing and Practice
Seasons -- Foreign Tours
Intent:
In the sports of archery, badminton, bowling, fencing, gymnastics, rifle, women's rowing, skiing, squash, synchronized swimming, team handball, men's volleyball and water polo, to specify that foreign tours may not occur more than once every three years.Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Interpretations and Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: August 1, 2002.
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