Legislative actions taken January 14 at the Division II business session of the 2001 NCAA Convention in Indianapolis:

No. 1 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. Adopted.*

No. 2 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. Adopted.*

Independent Institutions

Intent: To require that satisfactory-progress waivers submitted by independent institutions be administered by the NCAA Division II Academic Requirements Committee. Adopted.*

No. 4 Eligibility -- Transfer Residence Requirement

Intent: To permit a student-athlete to transfer and immediately be eligible when the student-athlete's institution loses accreditation. Adopted.

World University Games

Intent: To include the World University Games as an exception to the outside-competition legislation. Adopted.*

Conference Requirements

Intent: To specify sports-sponsorship requirements necessary for multi-sport voting conference membership. Adopted, as amended by No. 6-1, 231-10-0.

No. 6-1 Membership --

Voting Conference Requirements

Intent: To allow voting conferences to satisfy sports-sponsorship requirements by sponsoring five sports for men and five sports for women or four sports for men and six sports for women. Adopted.

No. 7 Member Conference -- Eligibility

Intent: To establish a provisional membership category for prospective Division II voting conference members. [Note: Appropriate editorial revisions will be made in NCAA Constitution 3.3 to reflect the adoption of this legislation.] Adopted.*

Exploratory Period

Intent: To require institutions that desire to join Division II to complete an "exploratory period" prior to submitting a provisional membership application. Adopted.*

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. Adopted.*

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. Adopted, 240-3-0.*

No. 11 Provisional Membership -- Eligibility

Intent: To establish requirements that provisional member applicants must satisfy for an application to be considered. Adopted.*

No. 12 Provisional Membership -- Application Fee

Intent: To indicate that the provisional membership application fee will be determined by the Management Council as specified. Adopted.*

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. Adopted.*

Philosophy Statement

Intent: To revise the Division II philosophy statement as specified. Adopted, 235-7-1.

Philosophy Statement

Intent: To revise the Division II philosophy statement as specified. Adopted, 230-14-0.

No. 16 Membership Requirements -- Minimum Financial Aid Requirement

Intent: To establish a minimum financial aid requirement, as specified. Adopted, 219-24-2.* (Effective immediately for any institution applying for provisional membership after January 14, 2002.)

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. Adopted, 226-17-1.* (Effective immediately for any institution applying for provisional membership or declaring its intent to reclassify to Division II on or after January 14, 2002.)

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. Adopted.*

No. 19 (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. Adopted, 233-8-0.

Related Activities

Intent: To revise the definition of a countable athletically related activities as specified. Adopted, 235-6-0.

No. 21 (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. Adopted, 237-3-1.

No. 22 (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. Adopted, 236-4-1.

No. 23 (Dereg. No. 5) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Preseason Off-Campus Intrasquad Scrimmage

Intent: To permit off-campus intrasquad scrimmages during the preseason practice period. Adopted, 228-15-2.

Seasons -- Missed Class Time

Intent: To prohibit student-athletes from missing class time for competition conducted in the nonchampionship segment in team sports. Adopted, 162-83-2. Motion to reconsider defeated, 90-147-2.

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. Adopted, 239-1-1.

No. 26 (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. [Note: This proposal does not apply to emerging sorts for women and other specified sports.] Adopted, as amended by No. 26-1, 182-63-0.

No. 26-1 (Dereg. No. 8) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Permissible Dates and Out-of-Season Activities --Rowing

Intent: To allow women's rowing to have a 45-day training period in a 60-day window in the fall or nonchampionship segment. Adopted.

Seasons -- Football Spring Practice

Intent: To eliminate the prohibition against Sunday practice during spring football. Adopted, 128-7-0.

and Distance-Learning Courses

Intent: To allow use of correspondence, extension and distance learning courses to meet satisfactory-progress requirements, under specified conditions. Adopted, 154-82-6.

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. Adopted.

No. 30 Amateurism -- Photograph Sales

Intent: To permit member institutions and conferences to contract with photographers to produce and sell photographs and videos to the general public. Defeated.

No. 31 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. Defeated, 117-123-1. (A revote was necessary on this proposal because of confusion over which proposal was under consideration.)

No. 32 Recruiting -- Institutional Control

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that funds expended for recruiting purposes must be deposited with the institution. Adopted.

No. 33 Recruiting -- Football Recruiting Calendar

Intent: To revise the football recruiting calendar by changing the spring evaluation period to April 15 through May 31 and to specify that four weeks of evaluation is selected at the discretion of the institution. Adopted.*

No. 34 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition

Intent: To permit student-athletes, in the sports of women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, and women's field hockey, to compete against outside competition in the nonchampionship segment without using a season of competition. Adopted.

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. Adopted.

No. 36 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. Adopted.

No. 37 Preseason Practice Start Date -- Golf

Intent: To specify that an institution that is a member of a conference that conducts its only conference championship or plays the majority of its conference matches in golf during the fall may commence practice August 24 or the first day of classes, whichever is earlier. Adopted, 125-77-29.

No. 38 First Date of Competition -- Golf

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

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. Adopted.*

*Effective immediately.