Division II delegates to the 2003 Convention will consider a total of 41 proposals -- 39 amendments and two amendments-to-amendments. All proposals will be considered January 13 during the Division II general business session. Proposal Nos. 1-6 make up the consent package, while Proposal Nos. 7-29 make up the Presidents Council grouping. Proposal Nos. 12, 14, 16-19 and 21-26 make up the Bylaw 14 deregulation package.

No. 1 Recruiting -- De Minimus Violations

Intent: To specify that violations of Bylaw 13.4.3 (conference restrictions), 13.4.4.2 (NCAA or conference championship posters), 13.7.5.5.2 (multiple hosts), 13.7.5.5.3 (nonqualifier probation), 13.7.5.5.4 (use of automobile), 13.11.6 (photograph of prospects) and 13.14.1 (coach involvement) are de minimus in nature.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee)].

No. 2 Recruiting -- Eligibility Ramifications -- Restitution for Improper Benefits

Intent: To specify circumstances in which an institution does not have to declare ineligible and seek restoration on behalf of a prospective student-athlete who received an improper benefit while a prospect, provided the individual repays the value of the benefit.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee)].

No. 3 Recruiting -- Medical Examinations -- During Campus Visit

Intent: To specify that results of a medical examination conducted by an institution during a prospect's official or unofficial visit may not be used to determine the admission of the prospect.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports)].

No. 4 Eligibility -- Hardship Waiver -- Administration

Intent: To permit institutions to appeal a conference denial of a hardship waiver to the NCAA Division II Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee)].

10-Semester/15-Quarter Rule

Intent: To specify that the NCAA Division II Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee shall administer waiver requests of the 10-semester/15-quarter rule for student-athletes of the national service academies.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee)].

No. 6 Financial Aid -- Books and Supplies -- Restitution for Improper Benefits

Intent: To establish the general principle of restitution for violations of Bylaw 15.2.3 (books and supplies).

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee)].

No. 7 Senior Woman Administrator -- Duties

Intent: To better define the expectations of the senior woman administrator position in Division II and to specify that an institution that has a female director of athletics may designate a different female administrator to serve as the senior woman administrator.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Project Team to Review Issues Related to Diversity)].

Financial Audit

Intent: To specify that a member institution may satisfy the "once-every-three years" financial audit requirement of its athletics department, provided the institution conducts an overall institutional financial audit at least once every three years and the overall institutional financial audit includes an audit of all athletics department funds.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Association and North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Compliance Review

Intent: To specify that at least once every 10 years, an institution's rules-compliance program shall be the subject of review by the NCAA, the conference office or an authority outside of the athletics department approved by the conference office.

Source: Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Conference and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

Definition of Professional Team

Intent: To specify that a professional team is an organized team that provides any of its players more than actual and necessary expenses, as specified, or declares itself to be a professional team.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Project Team)].

Professional Team/League

Intent: To permit student-athletes to receive educational expenses from a professional team/league under specified conditions.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Project Team)].

No. 12 Eligibility -- Full-Time Enrollment

Intent: To establish one bylaw for full-time enrollment requirements for practice and competition.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

No. 13 Eligibility -- Participation in Organized Competition -- Academic Year in Residence

Intent: To permit an individual who uses a season(s) of competition in a specific sport per Bylaw 14.2.4.3 (participation in organized competition prior to initial collegiate enrollment) to fulfill an academic year in residence at any NCAA active member institution, provided he/she does not engage in any competition in that specific sport while serving the residence requirement.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee)].

First Half of Playing Season

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that in order to receive a medical hardship waiver, the injury or illness must occur before the completion of the first half of the playing season.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

Effective Date: August 1, 2003, for any injury or illness occurring on or after August 1, 2003.

Waiver

Intent: To establish a season-of-competition waiver that may be granted due to extenuating circumstances for student-athletes who competed while eligible in a limited amount of competition.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Administrative Review Subcommittee)].

No. 16 Eligibility -- Freshman Academic Requirements -- Core-Curriculum Requirements

Intent: To increase from 13 to 14 the minimum number of core-course units for a qualifier and to require the one additional core-course unit be earned in any core-course area.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].

Effective Date: August 1, 2005, for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full-time on or after August 1, 2005.

Participation Before Certification

Intent: To specify that the temporary certification period for recruited and nonrecruited freshman and transfer student-athletes will be a 45-day period.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

Hours Earned or Accepted for Degree Credit

Intent: To specify that all credits earned during the first two years of collegiate enrollment that are accepted toward any (as opposed to a student-athlete's designated) program at the certifying institution may be used for the purposes of satisfactory-progress requirements.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

No. 19 Eligibility -- Satisfactory-Progress Requirements -- Fulfillment of Minimum Grade-Point-Average Requirements

Intent: To specify that minimum grade-point average requirements are calculated based on completed credit hours as opposed to full-time semester/quarter (terms) of attendance or seasons of competition.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

Effective Date: August 1, 2004.

Grade-Point-Average Requirements

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete must present a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 1.800 and 1.900 after a student's first and second seasons of competition.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].

Effective Date: August 1, 2004.

No. 21 Eligibility -- Satisfactory Progress -- Fulfillment of Grade-Point-Average Requirements

Intent: To specify that for purposes of calculating student-athlete's minimum grade-point averages, the institution must use the calculation method used by the institution for all students.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

Effective Date: August 1, 2003. (For all certifications subsequent to August 1, 2003.)

No. 22 Eligibility -- Satisfactory-Progress Requirements -- Regulations for Administration of Satisfactory Progress

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that prior approval be obtained from the certifying institution for courses taken during another institution's summer term that are to be used in determining academic status and allow institutions to apply their own policies to determine whether such courses may be used toward academic standing and satisfactory-progress requirements.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

No. 23 Transfer Regulations -- Fulfillment of Residence Requirement in Night School

Intent: To eliminate the requirements relating to a transfer student serving his or her residence requirement while attending an institution's night school.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

Partial Qualifiers and Nonqualifiers

Intent: To specify that the requirements for competition, practice and athletics aid for two-year college transfers are the same for qualifiers, partial qualifiers and nonqualifiers.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

No. 25 Transfers -- 4-2-4 Transfers

Intent: To specify that 4-2-4 transfers will be certified in the same manner as 2-4 transfers.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

Competition in Year of Transfer

Intent: To specify a two-year college transfer who has met the two-year transfer eligibility requirements is not eligible to compete during the segment that concludes with the NCAA championship at the certifying institution if the student-athlete has competed during that segment of the same academic year in that sport at the previous two-year institution.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].

No. 27 Permissible Benefits -- Complimentary Admissions -- Conference Championships

Intent: To permit an institution to provide six complimentary admissions to a student-athlete who participates in or is a member of a team participating in a conference championship.

Source: NCAA Division II Management Council (Legislation Committee).

No. 28 Emerging Sports -- Equestrian and Rugby

Intent: To add the sports of equestrian and rugby as emerging sports for women.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Championships Committee)].

No. 29 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Football -- Preseason Conditioning

Intent: In football, to amend the preseason practice legislation as specified.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Football Issues Project Team)].

No. 30 Recruiting -- Camp or Clinic -- Employment of Prospective Student-Athlete

Intent: To permit a prospective student-athlete who has signed a National Letter of Intent to be employed at that institution's summer camp or clinic for up to a total of 10 camp days.

Source: Great Lakes Valley Conference and Northeast-10 Conference.

Employment of Prospective Student-Athlete

Intent: To specify that Proposal No. 30 applies only to basketball student-athletes.

Source: Great Lakes Valley Conference and Northeast-10 Conference.

No. 31 Recruiting -- Women's Basketball -- Dead Period

Intent: In women's basketball, to establish a dead period between the Saturday prior to the start of the Division I Women's Basketball Championship through Wednesday, noon, following the championship game.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council and Great Lakes Valley Conference and Northeast 10 Conference.

No. 31-1 Recruiting -- Women's Basketball -- Dead Period

Intent: To change the effective date of Proposal No. 31 from August 1, 2003, to immediate.

Source: Great Lakes Valley Conference and Northeast-10 Conference.

Effective Date: Immediate.

AAU Events

Intent: In women's basketball, to limit the number of evaluations at AAU events to a maximum of four during May and June.

Source: Northeast-10 Conference and New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Effective Date: Immediate.

No. 33 Financial Aid -- Exempted Government Grants -- State Grants

Intent: To exclude from individual and team limits any state government grants awarded solely on bases having no relationship to athletics ability.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council and Lone Star Conference and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

No. 34 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Basketball -- Conference Challenge Tournament

Intent: In basketball, to permit an institution to exempt one contest as part of a "conference challenge" from an institution's maximum contest limitations as specified.

Source: Northeast-10 Conference and New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.

No. 35 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Basketball -- First Contest

Intent: In basketball, to specify that a member institution shall not play its first contest (game or scrimmage) with outside competition before November 15.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, Northeast-10 Conference and New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.

No. 36 Playing and Practice Seasons -- First Date of Practice -- Fall Sports

Intent: In the sports of cross country, field hockey, football, soccer and women's volleyball, to specify that an institution shall not begin practice until 21 days prior to the institution's first date of competition.

Source: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

No. 37 Playing and Practice Seasons -- First Date of Competition -- Fall Sports

Intent: In the sports of cross country, field hockey, football, soccer and women's volleyball, to specify that an institution shall not engage in its first date of competition before the Thursday preceding September 1.

Source: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

No. 38 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Permissible Dates and Out-of-Season Activities -- Fall-Sport Exception -- Golf and Tennis

Intent: In golf and tennis, to permit an institution that counts golf or tennis as a fall sport and discontinues its championship segment activities by November 1 (instead of November 15) to add 15 calendar days to the period of 45 consecutive calendar days available during the nonchampionship segment.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council and North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

No. 39 Resolution -- Financial Aid -- Maximum Institutional Grant-in-Aid Limitations

Source: Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

Effective dates are August 1, 2003, unless otherwise noted. Immediate effective dates must be approved by Convention vote.