No. 40 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Basketball -- First Contest Date

Intent: In basketball, to establish the first permissible contest date as four weeks following October 15. Withdrawn by sponsor.

Playing Seasons Regulations

Intent: To revise the playing and practice seasons regulations, as specified. Defeated, 166-196-6, as amended.

Playing Seasons Regulations

Intent: To amend 2003 NCAA Convention Proposal 41, as specified. Adopted, 184-179-2. (Proposal No. 41's defeat renders this proposal moot.)

Automatic Qualification

Intent: To revise automatic qualification policies in team sports, as specified. Adopted, 306-59-3.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 43 (No. 2-52) Executive Regulations -- Selection of Teams and Individuals for Championships

Intent: To require that in all sports at least 50 percent of the championship field originally designated for the respective sport shall be reserved for at-large berths, as specified. Rendered moot with the passage of 42.

Professional Team -- Definition

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. Adopted.

Definition of Contact

Intent: To define a recruiting "contact" as specified. Adopted.

Effective date: Immediately.

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. Adopted.

Effective date: Immediately.

De Minimis Violations

Intent: To specify that violations of Bylaws 13.7.4 (accommodations on official visits), 13.7.5.5.2 (multiple hosts), 13.11.6 (photograph of prospect), and 13.14.1 (coach involvement) are de minimus in nature. Adopted.

Effective date: Immediately.

Season of Competition -- 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. Adopted.

No. 49 (No. 2-44) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Noncollegiate, Amateur Competition -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to permit a student-athlete to compete in noncollegiate, amateur basketball competition outside the institution's intercollegiate basketball season. Adopted.

Seasons -- Number of Contests -- Ice Hockey

Intent: In women's ice hockey, to decrease the maximum number of contests from 34 to 25. Adopted.

Preseason Practice

Intent: In tennis, to provide institutions that conduct the traditional segment in the fall with 16 practice opportunities before the first contest or September 1, whichever is later. Adopted.

Length of Playing Season

Intent: To specify that an institution that sponsors indoor or outdoor track and field (but not both) is limited to a playing and practice season of 21 weeks. Adopted.

Women's Bowling

Intent: To establish a National Collegiate Championship in women's bowling, effective 2003-04. Adopted.

Rugby

Intent: To add rugby as an emerging sport for women. Adopted.

Effective date: Immediately.

Legislation effective August 1, 2003, unless otherwise noted.