Following are the intent statements, sources and effective dates for 140 legislative proposals -- 131 in Division I, six in Division II and three in Division III -- that were properly submitted by member institutions and conferences by the July 15 deadline. The Division I proposals will be considered through the established Division I legislative process featuring review by the Division I Management Council; Divisions II and III proposals will be considered by the membership in their 2005 Convention business sessions.

The Division I proposals are divided into two sections -- proposals from the governance structure and member conferences, and proposals from the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association packages. Proposals are ordered numerically in each section.

All of the proposals below (including sponsors' rationale and contact information) are included in the LSDBi on NCAA Online (www.ncaa.org).

Division I proposals

(Governance structure/conferences)

No. 02-82 Financial Aid -- Counters -- Football or Basketball, Varsity Competition

Intent: To permit a recruited football or basketball student-athlete who receives only nonathletically related institutional financial aid to compete without counting in the institution's financial aid limits.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-23 Financial Aid -- Countable Financial Aid -- Team Limits

Intent: To permit a student-athlete who participates in an equivalency sport to receive institutional academic scholarships and need-based institutional aid under specified conditions without including such aid in an institution's equivalency computation in the applicable sport; further, to specify that all institutional financial aid (including aid that is exempted from an equivalency computation) awarded to a counter may be used to meet the minimum financial aid requirements for Division I membership.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-32 Recruiting -- Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to send a prospect, a prospect's coach and any other individual responsible for teaching or directing an activity in which a prospect is involved only general correspondence, questionnaires, camp brochures, institutionally prepared (nonathletics) publications available to all students, a recruiting or media guide (limited in size and length), NCAA educational materials and business cards; further, to permit all other recruiting materials to be posted on the institution's Web site; however such items may not be printed from the Web and provided to prospects via mail or during visits.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council [Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting)].

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-83 Recruiting -- Definitions and Applications -- Prospective Student-Athlete

Intent: To revise the definition of a prospective student-athlete to specify that an individual enrolled and receiving institutional athletics aid during the summer before initial, full-time enrollment is not a prospective student-athlete.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council [Academics/ Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Big 12 Conference)].

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-122 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Partial Qualifier and Nonqualifier

Intent: To permit the Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet to grant a fourth season of competition to a partial qualifier or nonqualifier based on objective evidence of circumstances that warrants a waiver of the normal application of the regulation.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-125 Recruiting -- Predraft Camp Exception -- Men's Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution's men's basketball coaches to attend National Basketball Association (NBA) predraft camps that occur outside a contact or evaluation period at which prospective student-athletes are in attendance.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting and Subcommittee on Agents and Amateurism).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 03-126 Executive Regulations -- Official Traveling Parties -- Men's Ice Hockey

Intent: In men's ice hockey, to increase the official traveling party from 31 to 37 individuals.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Men's Ice Hockey Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-130 Committees -- Women's Lacrosse Rules Committee

Intent: To establish an NCAA Women's Lacrosse Rules Committee composed of nine members, including the secretary-rules editor.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Women's Lacrosse Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 03-131 Executive Regulations -- Official Traveling Parties -- Women's Bowling

Intent: In women's bowling, to increase the official traveling party from 10 to 13 individuals.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Women's Bowling Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-1 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses for Practice

Intent: To specify that violations of Bylaw 16.8.1.1 (institutionally provided expenses for practice) are de minimis and shall not affect the student-athlete's eligibility.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-2 Eligibility -- Outside Competition -- Sports other than Basketball

Intent: In sports other than basketball, to specify that a student-athlete who engages in outside competition becomes ineligible for competition in a particular sport until eligibility is restored by the Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-3 Recruiting -- Entertainment Restrictions

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a high-school, college preparatory school or two-year college coach with a maximum of two complimentary admissions to attend a home athletics event at any facility within a 30-mile radius of the institution's campus.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-7 Eligibility -- Practice Waiver -- United States Olympic Committee/ National Governing Body

Intent: To permit an institution to file a waiver on behalf of a team sport student-athlete with eligibility remaining who is not enrolled full-time to participate in practice sessions at the institution.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-10 Administrative Regulations -- Drug Testing -- Institutional Responsibility

Intent: To define institutional responsibility for ensuring compliance with specified elements of the NCAA drug-testing program.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-15 Initial Eligibility -- GED Test/ Equivalency Diploma

Intent: To specify that, for the purpose of satisfying the graduation component of the initial-eligibility requirements, a prospective student-athlete may use a GED test taken earlier than the date the prospective student-athlete's high-school class would normally have graduated from high school.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Initial Eligibility).

Effective date: August 1, 2005 (for entering freshman whose initial collegiate enrollment occurs during the 2005-06 academic year and thereafter).

No. 04-16 Eligibility -- Change in Eligibility Status -- Exception

Intent: To establish an exception to the certification of the six-hour and grade-point average term-by-term requirements for those institutions whose submissions or posting date of grades is after the first day of classes of the following term; further, to require institutions that use this exception to provide to the NCAA national office the number of student-athletes who are ultimately declared ineligible for the academic term but competed during the exception period.

Source: Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Continuing Eligibility Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-17 Eligibility -- Change in Eligibility Status -- Eligibility for Postseason Competition -- Between Terms

Intent: To specify that an institution shall certify that a student-athlete, in his or her final season of competition in the applicable sport, has satisfactorily completed six-semester or six-quarter hours of academic credit the preceding regular academic term to be eligible to compete in postseason competition occurring between regular terms.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-18 Eligibility -- Fourth Season of Competition -- Students with Learning Disabilities

Intent: To permit an institution to certify that a student-athlete with a diagnosed learning disability is eligible for a fourth season of competition, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-19 Eligibility -- Fulfillment of Credit-Hour Requirements -- 24-Semester/ 36-Quarter Hour Requirement

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete who is entering his or her second year of collegiate enrollment shall have satisfactorily completed at least 24-semester or 36-quarter hours of academic credit.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Continuing Eligibility).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-20 Eligibility -- Progress Toward Degree -- Fulfillment of Credit-Hour Requirements -- Exceptions/Waivers

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may use hours earned during the term(s) of the missed-term exception and the medical-absence waiver to satisfy the 24/36-hour, percentage of degree and grade-point average requirements.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Continuing Eligibility Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005 (for certifications for the 2005-06 academic year and thereafter).

No. 04-21 Financial Aid -- Maximum Team Limits -- Selected Women's Sports

Intent: To increase the maximum grant-in-aid limitations in women's gymnastics from 12 to 14, in women's volleyball from 12 to 13, in women's cross country/track and field from 18 to 20, and in women's soccer from 12 to 14.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2006.

No. 04-22 Financial Aid -- Maximum Team Limits -- Women's Rugby

Intent: In women's rugby, to establish a maximum equivalency financial aid limit of 12.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Financial Aid).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-27 Recruiting -- Recruiting Materials -- Nonathletics Institutional Advertisements

Intent: To permit the NCAA (or a third party acting on behalf of the NCAA) to advertise at high-school or two-year college athletics events, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Subcommittee on Recruiting).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-28 Awards and Benefits -- Benefits, Gifts and Services -- Coaching Career Educational Program

Intent: To permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses to allow student-athletes who are within one year of exhausting their eligibility to attend the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "So You Want to be a Coach" educational program.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Women's Basketball Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-29 Financial Aid -- Voluntary Withdrawal -- Re-Awarding of Aid -- Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution to replace a counter who voluntarily withdraws during the preseason practice period by immediately providing the financial aid to a student-athlete who has been a member of the team for at least one year and has not previously received athletically related financial aid.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Football Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-30 Awards and Benefits -- Midyear Enrollees -- Expenses for Postseason Bowl Games -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to prohibit an institution from providing expenses to a midyear enrollee for participation in postseason bowl games and related activities.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Football Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-31 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Five-Day Acclimatization Period -- Walk-Throughs -- Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution to conduct one one-hour walk-through per day during the five-day acclimatization period, provided protective equipment (for example, helmets, shoulder pads) is not worn, equipment related to football (for example, footballs, blocking sleds) is not used and conditioning activities do not occur.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Football Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-32 Recruiting -- Off-Campus Contacts/Evaluations -- Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to permit any coach who counts in the institution's numerical limitation of full-time head and assistant coaches to contact and evaluate prospective student-athletes off campus during a week, provided no more than seven coaches are off campus recruiting at any one time.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Football Issues Committee) (Big 12 Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-33 Recruiting -- Camps and Clinics -- Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to limit institutional coaching staff members to working at institutional or private camps during two 15 consecutive-day periods in the months of June and July, unless such activities meet the provisions regarding developmental clinics.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Football Issues Committee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-34 Championships and Postseason Football -- Eligibility for Championships -- Duration of Ineligibility

Intent: To specify that the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS or designated subcommittee) shall have the authority in all sports to reduce the legislated penalty during a drug-test appeal to include the next 50 percent of a season of competition in all sports.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-35 Recruiting -- Tryouts -- Nonscholastic Basketball -- Women's Basketball

Intent: To prohibit any institutional staff member with women's basketball-specific duties (for example, graduate assistants, director of basketball operations, managers and administrative personnel) from participating in coaching activities involving nonscholastic-based basketball teams.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-36 Championships and Postseason Football -- Eligibility for Championships -- Duration of Ineligibility

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete's breach of drug-testing protocol (for example, no-show, tampering with a sample) shall result in the same penalties as a positive test for a non-street drug.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-37 Recruiting -- Recruiting Materials -- Promotion of NCAA or Conference Championship

Intent: To permit the NCAA and a member conference hosting an NCAA or conference championship to provide championship promotional materials to any individual or group.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Championships Promotions Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-38 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Coaching Activities Outside the Playing Season

Intent: To permit an institutional coaching staff member in any sport to engage in coaching activities with a student-athlete from that institution who participates Olympic, Pan American, World Championships, World Cup and World University games qualifying competition.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-39 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Women's Rugby

Intent: In women's rugby, to establish a playing and practice season.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-40 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Maximum Number of Contests and Certified Events

Intent: To amend the maximum number of contests in certain sports, eliminate the event certification process and eliminate certain annual exemptions, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2006.

No. 04-41 Committees -- Playing Rules Oversight Panel

Intent: To modify the playing rules approval process as specified.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-42 Academic Performance Program -- Penalties and Rewards -- Reward

Intent: To specify that an institution with a graduation success rate of 60 percent or higher shall in the next academic year receive twice its allotment of the academic support funds to which it is entitled under the revenue distribution process.

Source: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-43 Ethical Conduct -- Gambling Activities

Intent: To specify gambling activities prohibited under NCAA legislation.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-44 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition -- Reimbursement

Intent: To permit an institution to reimburse a student-athlete at institutional rates applicable to athletics department staff for travel expenses associated with required practice at an off-campus site.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-45 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Basketball -- On-Court Practice

Intent: In basketball, to specify that an institution may not begin on-court preseason basketball practice sessions before 7 p.m. on the Friday nearest October 15.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-46 Committees -- Student-Athlete Advisory Committee -- Term of Office

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may serve on the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee up to one year after the completion of his or her intercollegiate athletics eligibility, provided he or she is still enrolled or employed at the institution at which the student-athlete participated in intercollegiate athletics.

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-47 Recruiting -- Offers and Inducements -- Benefits for Family Members of Prospects

Intent: To specify that it shall not be a violation for an institutional staff member to provide benefits to the family members of prospect-aged individuals, as specified.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-48 Eligibility -- One-Time Transfer Exception

Intent: In all sports, to permit the use of the one-time transfer exception by four-year transfers in all sports.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005 (may be applied to all student-athletes currently serving a transfer-residence year).

No. 04-49 Recruiting -- Local Sports Clubs -- Women's Volleyball

Intent: In women's volleyball, during a quiet period, to prohibit coaching of a local sports club at off-campus competition where prospects are present.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-52 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Preseason Practice and First Date of Competition -- Women's Volleyball

Intent: In women's volleyball, to establish the first permissible date of competition as the Friday before September 1, or the preceding Friday if September 1 falls on a Friday, or two Fridays before September 1 if September 1 falls on a Saturday; further, to establish the first permissible date of practice as the date that permits a maximum of 29 units before the first scheduled intercollegiate contest or September 1, whichever is later.

Source: Missouri Valley Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-53 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Nonqualifier

Intent: To permit a nonqualifier to participate in a fourth season of competition, provided he or she completes 80 percent of the designated degree program before his or her fifth year of collegiate enrollment.

Source: Horizon League.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-54 Personnel -- Off-Campus Recruiting -- Division I-A Football -- Exception

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit an institution to replace a designated off-campus recruiter during a week when such a coach is unable to continue recruiting activities due to extenuating circumstances.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-56 Recruiting -- Tryouts -- Private Lessons -- Equestrian

Intent: To permit women's equestrian coaches to give private lessons to prospects, as specified.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-57 Recruiting -- Camps and Clinics -- Football or Basketball

Intent: In football or basketball, to permit camps and clinics to be conducted during June, July and August or any calendar week that includes days of those months.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-58 Financial Aid -- Exempted Government Grants -- United States Military Annuitant Pay

Intent: To exempt the United States Military Annuitant Pay and other family member service related death benefits from a student-athlete's individual limit.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-60 Eligibility -- Validity of Amateur Status -- International Student-Athlete

Intent: To require NCAA certification of the amateur status of international prospective student-athletes.

Source: West Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-61 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Summer Practice -- Facility Fees

Intent: To permit an institution to pay fees associated with the use of institutional practice and competition facilities by student-athletes during the summer.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-62 Membership -- Division I-A Membership Requirements -- Noncompliance

Intent: To specify that an institution that fails to satisfy any of the Division I-A membership requirements for two consecutive years shall be placed in restricted membership status in football for one year and that failure to meet Division I-A membership requirements during the restricted year will result in the institution losing its Division I-A classification.

Source: Mid-American Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-63 Personnel -- Volunteer Coaches

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a volunteer coach complimentary meals incidental to organized team activities.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-64 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Alumni Match -- Women's Volleyball

Intent: In women's volleyball, to permit an institution to play in an alumni match during the week before the first permissible date of competition.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-65 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Equipment Issue/Squad Pictures

Intent: For all sports, to make consistent the restrictions governing equipment issue and squad pictures.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-66 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Swimming and Diving -- Out-of-Season Activities

Intent: In swimming and diving, to specify that outside the playing season, a student-athlete may be involved in in-pool conditioning activities provided no equipment other than caps and goggles is used (for example, starting blocks, kickboards, pull buoys, paddles).

Source: Mid-American Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-67 Recruiting -- Camps or Clinics -- Student-Athlete Employment -- Sports other than Football

Intent: In sports other than football, to eliminate the requirement that the director of athletics (or his or her designee) must give prior approval to the student-athlete's employment arrangement in the institution's own camp or clinic.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-68 Recruiting -- January Dead Period -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to establish an exception to the January dead periods for midyear enrollees who have been admitted to the institution, have signed a National Letter of Intent or offer of admission and/or financial aid to attend the institution and are required to be on campus for institutional orientation sessions for all students.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-69 Recruiting -- Contact and Evaluations -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to revise contacts and evaluations and the recruiting calendar, as specified.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-70 Amateurism -- Composition of Professional Sports Counseling Panel

Intent: To permit any individual, other than a full-time institutional employee, to serve on a professional sports counseling panel, provided the majority of panel members are full-time institutional employees.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-71 Awards and Benefits -- Maximum Value of Awards -- Postseason Bowl Games

Intent: To increase the award values for sponsoring agencies of certified postseason bowl games from $350 to $500, and to maintain the $350 value on additional awards presented by an institution to its student-athletes for bowl game participation.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-72 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Number of Contests -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit an institution to annually compete in 12 regular-season contests.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-73 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit a student-athlete to engage in five seasons of competition within five years of the student-athlete's initial full-time collegiate enrollment.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-74 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Length of Playing Season -- Skiing

Intent: To permit an institution that sponsors both Alpine and Nordic skiing to declare separate playing and practice seasons.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-75 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Rowing -- Lightweight Rowing

Intent: To permit an institution that sponsors a lightweight rowing program to apply the playing and practice season provisions independently from their open rowing program.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-76 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Annual Exemptions -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to permit an institution to annually exempt a maximum of two exhibition contests/scrimmages against any four-year collegiate institution; further, to specify that only one exhibition contest/scrimmage per year may be played in the arena in which the member institution regularly plays its home contests.

Source: Southern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-77 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Preseason Practice -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that an institution that has a prohibition against athletics activities during a specific day of the week due to religious reasons shall be permitted to start practice one day earlier than the date determined by the practice-unit formula.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: May 1, 2005.

No. 04-78 Recruiting -- Contacts -- Official Visits

Intent: To permit all institutional staff members to contact a prospect within 30 miles of campus during the prospect's official visit.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-79 Recruiting -- Contact Restrictions at Specified Sites -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to permit an institution to send printed recruiting materials through regular mail to a prospect's home while the prospect is participating in a certified event.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-80 Recruiting -- Camps and Clinics -- Division I-AA Football

Intent: In Division I-AA football, to permit an institution to employ members of its football squad who have eligibility remaining at its football camps.

Source: Southern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-81 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Certified Events -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to permit an institution to participate in one certified event each academic year; further, to specify that participation in a certified event shall count as a single contest in the institution's maximum contest limitations on not more than two occasions during any four-year period.

Source: Southern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-82 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses for Practice and Competition -- Postseason Competition

Intent: To specify that an institution may provide travel expenses for postseason competition only to those student-athletes eligible for competition during the regular season immediately before the postseason contest.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-83 Playing and Practice Seasons -- First Practice Date -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to increase the number of practice units from 35 to 40.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-84 Awards and Benefits -- Practice or Competition Expenses -- Apparel for Community Service or Team Travel

Intent: To permit an institution to provide one shirt bearing the institution's logo per academic year to each student-athlete to be used for team travel or other events at which he or she is representing the institution.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-85 Awards and Benefits -- Conference Awards -- Expenses

Intent: To permit a conference office to pay the costs of a student-athlete's spouse, parents or legal guardians to attend a conference academic awards presentation.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-86 Eligibility -- Progress Toward Degree -- Credit Earned Before Initial Full-Time Collegiate Enrollment

Intent: To permit a student-athlete to use credit hours earned before full-time initial collegiate enrollment through advanced-placement tests or credit by examination to meet the minimum progress-toward-degree requirement.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-87 Administrative Regulations -- Recruiting Calendar -- Women's Volleyball

Intent: To modify the women's volleyball recruiting calendar as specified.

Source: Big West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-88 Playing and Practice Seasons -- First Contest Date -- Softball

Intent: In softball, to establish March 1 as the first permissible contest date for championship-segment softball competition.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-89 Recruiting -- Official Visit -- Transportation

Intent: To permit any member of an institution's athletics department to provide transportation during an official visit for a prospect and the prospect's parents or legal guardians between the campus and the bus or train station or major airport closest or within a 100-mile radius of the campus.

Source: Mid-American Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-90 Recruiting -- Precollege Expenses -- Use of Institution's Facility

Intent: To permit a state high-school association to use a member institution's facilities at a reduced rate.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-91 Recruiting -- Tryout -- Definition of Open Event

Intent: To apply the objective standards set forth in the definition of an "open" event only to prospective student-athletes participating in the specific event.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-98 Recruiting -- Official Visit -- Parent Transportation

Intent: To permit an institution to pay the air transportation for one parent (or legal guardian) to accompany the prospect during an official visit.

Source: NCAA Task Force on Recruiting.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-99 Recruiting -- Number of Official Visits -- Prospect Limitation

Intent: In football and basketball, to reduce from five to four the maximum number of expense paid official visits for each prospect.

Source: NCAA Task Force on Recruiting.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-102 Personnel -- Conduct of Athletics Personnel -- Responsibility of Head Coach

Intent: To define the responsibilities of a head coach with regard to compliance with NCAA rules.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council (Committee on Infractions).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-104 Committees -- Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee -- Composition

Intent: To require that one of the Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee's six Division I members also be a member of the Division I Management Council.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council (Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-105 Membership -- Division I-A Conference Requirements -- Two-Year Grace Period

Intent: To establish a two-year grace period during which a conference may continue to be considered a Division I-A conference when it fails to satisfy the eight-full Division I-A member requirements due to one or more of its member's failure to comply with the Division I-A membership requirements.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council (Membership Subcommittee).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-106 Recruiting -- Evaluations at Noninstitutional Camps or Clinics -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit coaches to attend noninstitutional, privately owned camps or clinics that are not operated in accordance with the restrictions applicable to institutional camps or clinics without counting evaluations for the prospective student-athletes in attendance.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-107 Financial Aid -- Rewarding Aid -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit athletics financial aid to be re-awarded immediately to a nonscholarship student-athlete who has been actively involved with a team during at least the preceding two years, provided the athletics aid is available due to the departure of a returning team member during preseason practice.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-108 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Coach Involvement -- Outside of Playing and Practice Season -- Olympic Qualifying Events

Intent: To permit an institutional coaching staff member in any sport to engage in coaching activities with a student-athlete from that institution who participates in Olympic qualifying events that occur outside of the playing and practice season. (Part of this proposal is drafted in a nontraditional format. If adopted, appropriate revisions will be made in each sport.)

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-109 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Coaching Activities -- Outside Competition -- Summer Vacation Period

Intent: To permit a coaching staff member in sports that allow individual-workout sessions in the summer to engage in coaching activities with a student-athlete from that institution who is participating in established national championship events or Olympic, Pan American, World Cup and World University games qualifying competition.

Source: Southern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-147 Amateurism -- Professional Draft -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to eliminate the exception that permits enrolled student-athletes to enter a professional draft.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: Immediately; for those who enter a professional basketball league draft during the 2004-05 season (that is, April 2005 Board of Directors meeting).

No. 04-148 Eligibility for Championships -- Positive Drug Test -- Non-NCAA Athletics Organization

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete under a drug-testing suspension from a national or international sports governing body that has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency code shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition for the duration of the suspension.

Source: NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Division I proposals

(NABC/WBCA proposals)

The following proposals were developed by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and introduced by the NCAA Division I Management Council to assess membership comment without taking a position on the merits of the proposal.

No. 04-110 Recruiting -- Signed Prospective Student-Athlete Access -- Men's Basketball

Intent: To provide greater access between an institution and a prospective student-athlete before the prospect's initial full-time enrollment at the institution, as specified, provided the prospect has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) (or written offer admission or financial aid for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI in men's basketball).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-111 Awards and Benefits -- Additional Benefits -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to permit an institution to provide additional benefits to student-athletes, as specified.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-112 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Preseason or Informal Games -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that participation in preseason exhibition games or informal scrimmages shall not result in the loss of a season of competition.

Effective date: August 1, 2005; may be applied on a retroactive basis.

No. 04-113 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to permit a student-athlete to engage in five seasons of competition; further, to eliminate all waivers (for example, hardship waiver) that permit men's basketball student-athletes an additional season of competition.

Effective date: August 1, 2005; applicable on a retroactive basis to any student-athlete with remaining eligibility.

No. 04-114 Personnel -- Off-Campus Recruiting -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to permit three certified coaching staff members to engage in off-campus recruiting of men's basketball prospective student-athletes at the same time; further, to eliminate the requirement that a coach may not leave campus to engage in off-campus contact or evaluations until one of the other coaches who is off campus actually return to campus (that is, baton rule).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-115 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Countable Athletically Related Activities -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that a student-athlete is permitted to engage in a maximum of eight hours of countable athletically related activities per week outside of the playing season (including the summer vacation period), with not more than two of those hours devoted to individual or team skill-related instruction. In addition, to eliminate the limitations on the number of student-athletes involved in such activities at any one time; further, to specify that during the summer before initial full-time enrollment a prospect who has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a prospect who has signed a written offer of admission or financial aid) may participate in the same athletically related activities as permitted for a currently enrolled student-athlete. Finally, to specify that all athletically related activities outside the playing season are prohibited one week before the beginning of the examination period through the end of each student-athlete's final exams.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-116 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Out-of-Season Practice -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to permit a coaching staff member to observe his or her own team members participating in voluntary, nonorganized athletically related activities (for example, pick-up games) outside the playing season, both during the academic year and during institutional vacation periods (for example, summer).

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-117 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Required Days Off -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that during the playing season, all countable athletically related activities shall be prohibited for four days during each month, except during participation in one conference and postseason championship, any postseason certified bowl game or National Invitation Tournament, and during participation in NCAA championships.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-118 Recruiting -- Camps and Clinics -- Employment of Athletics Staff Members -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that a coach and noncoaching staff members with basketball specific responsibilities may be employed only at their own institution's camps or clinics.

Effective date: Immediately [contracts signed before July 20, 2004, may be honored, provided the camp or clinic is operated in accordance with restrictions applicable to institutional camps (for example, open to any and all entrance, no free or reduced admissions to or employment award winners)].

No. 04-119 Recruiting -- Contacts and Evaluations -- Men's Basketball

Intent: To modify the current recruiting regulations relating to contacts and evaluations of prospective men's basketball student-athletes as follows:

* To permit authorized coaching staff members to engage in off-campus recruiting during the 120 person days as follows: (1) September 9-October 5 -- contact period; (2) October 6-March 31 -- evaluation period; (3) April 1-April 30 -- contact period; (4) December 24-December 26 -- dead period. Current dead periods surrounding the National Letter of Intent (NLI) in the Division I Men's Basketball Championship will be retained.

* To permit an institution to engage in seven recruiting opportunities, with not more than three of those opportunities being off-campus contacts. Contact with a prospect may not be made before September 9 of the prospects senior year in high school.

* To limit academic-year evaluations to the following activities: (1) scholastic practices and competition; and (2) regular scholastic activities involving student-athletes enrolled only at that institution. (Observation of nonscholastic activities are prohibited.)

* To permit an institution to conduct one on-campus tryout for each men's basketball prospect, as specified.

* To permit an institution to telephone a prospect once per month beginning June 15 at the end of the sophomore year through July 31 of the junior year, and twice per week beginning August 1 before the beginning of the senior year. Institutions may telephone a two-year college men's basketball prospect once per week.

* To reduce from five to four the number of official paid visits a men's basketball prospect may take, and specify that such visits may not occur before the first day of classes for the prospect's senior year.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-120 Recruiting -- Printed Recruiting Materials -- General Correspondence -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that an institution may not send general correspondence to prospects prior to June 15 at the conclusion of the prospect's sophomore year in high school.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 04-121 Awards and Benefits -- Support Services -- Mentoring Activities -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that the head coach must annually develop an individual personal-growth plan with each student-athlete using community and institutional resources; further, to require the coach to periodically meet with each student-athlete to ensure that appropriate progress is being made toward the objectives set forth in the student-athlete's personal-growth plan.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

The following proposals were developed by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and introduced by the NCAA Division I Management Council to assess membership comment without taking a position on the merits of the proposal.

No. 04-122 Administrative Regulations -- Recruiting Calendars -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to modify the fall contact period to occur September 16 through October 6 (contact period of 21 days); further, permit 85 recruiting person-days between September 16 through April 30, with those days not designated for evaluations to be considered quiet and also retaining other specified recruiting period designations (for example, dead period surrounding the Women's Final Four).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-123 Administrative Regulations -- Recruiting Calendars -- Women's Basketball -- Dead Period

Intent: In women's basketball, to establish a dead period on December 24 through December 26.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-124 Recruiting -- Contact -- July Evaluation Period -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to prohibit all communication with a prospect, the prospect's relatives or legal guardians, the prospect's coach or any individual associated with the prospect as a result of the prospect's participation in basketball directly or indirectly, during the specified evaluation periods in July.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-125 Administrative Regulations -- Recruiting Calendars -- Women's Basketball -- April Contact and Evaluation Periods

Intent: In women's basketball, to eliminate the April contact period and to establish a five-day evaluation period during the third week in April (for example, April 15-19, 2005).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-126 Administrative Regulations -- Recruiting Calendars -- Women's Basketball -- USA Basketball Youth Festival

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit one coach per institution to attend the USA Basketball Youth Festival.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-127 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses for Student-Athlete's Friends and Relatives -- Occasional Meals -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit an institutional staff member to provide an occasional meal in the locale of the institution for the student-athlete's immediate family (including legal guardians) during a visit to campus.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-128 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses for Student-Athlete's Friends and Relatives -- Transportation -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit an institution to provide transportation expenses for the parent or legal guardians of a senior student-athlete to attend the "senior night" home game or one institutional awards banquet.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-129 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Preseason Contests -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to specify that participation in preseason exhibition contests (including a practice scrimmage) shall not result in the loss of a season of competition.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-130 Personnel -- Employment with Professional League of Team -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to prohibit a coach from being employed (on a paid or volunteer basis) in any capacity with any professional women's basketball league or team; further, to prohibit a women's basketball coach from serving as an announcer or commentator for any professional women's basketball league broadcast or contest.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-131 Personnel -- Off-Campus Recruiting -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to increase from two to three the number of certified coaches permitted to recruit off campus.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-132 Personnel -- Off-Campus Recruiting -- Recruiting Travel Combined with other Travel -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit a coach to depart campus to recruit when another coach, who has been off-campus recruiting, is en route back to campus or is taking personal time without institutional reimbursement; further, to permit the coach taking personal time to begin recruiting again without returning to campus.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-133 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Out-of-Season Practice Activities -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit the permissible eight hours of out-of-season practice to include conditioning, weight training or skill instruction with no specified time limitations on any single activity; further, to permit institutional coaching staff member to observe (but not coach) their own team members participating in "pick-up games" conducted outside the playing season and specify that observation of pick-up games must be counted against the permissible eight hours of conditioning activities.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-134 Recruiting -- Camps and Clinics -- Coach and Student-Athlete Employment -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to prohibit coaches (or any individual with women's basketball only responsibilities) and student-athletes from being employed (on a paid or volunteer basis) at noninstitutional camps or clinics; further, to specify that an institution may not employ another Division I women's basketball coach [or any other individual with women's basketball only responsibilities (for example, director of basketball operations)] or student-athlete at their own institutional camp or clinic.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-135 Recruiting -- Communication Methods -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to limit electronic transmissions with a prospect to facsimiles or electronic mail.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-136 Recruiting -- Contacts -- Parents Who Serve as Coaches of Nonscholastic and Scholastic Teams -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to apply the recruiting regulations relating to a parent when the parent also serves as a coach of a nonscholastic team on which his or her daughter participates.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-137 Recruiting -- Contacts After Commitment to Attend Institution -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit unlimited contact with a women's basketball prospective student-athlete who has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid) during any contact and evaluation period.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-138 Recruiting -- Official Visits -- Number of Official Visits -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to reduce the number of official visits a prospective student-athlete may take to a Division I or Division II institution from five to four.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-139 Recruiting -- Recruiting Materials -- Media Guides -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to limit the number of pages in an institution's hard-copy women's basketball media guide or recruiting brochure to a maximum of 200 pages.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-140 Recruiting -- Recruiting Materials -- Presentation Materials -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit any type of recruiting presentation materials to be used during an in-home visit with a prospective student-athlete (for example, PowerPoint presentations, photo boards, story boards, photo albums, slide shows, highlight tapes, videos and DVDs); further, to specify that the prospective student-athlete's name, picture or likeness may not be included in any of the materials.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-141 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls to Prospects -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to prohibit an institution from making telephone calls to prospective student-athletes in March of the prospect's junior year; further, to permit an institution to make one telephone call in each of the months of April, May and June of the prospective student-athlete's junior year of high school with subsequent telephone calls subject to current limitations (for example, one call June 21 through June 30, three calls in July).

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-142 Recruiting -- Tryout Exceptions -- Scholastic and Nonscholastic Events -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to prohibit women's basketball scholastic and nonscholastic events, practice and competition from being conducted on the campus of a Division I institution, except for high-school state tournaments or competition related to the state tournament.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-143 Recruiting -- Tryouts -- Voluntary Skill Instruction -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit a prospective student-athlete who has enrolled in summer school pursuant to Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3, to engage in two hours per week of individual skill instruction.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-144 Recruiting -- Definition of a Student-Athlete and Various Benefits -- Women's Basketball

In women's basketball, to permit an institution to have additional access to prospective student-athletes and student-athletes as follows:

* Permit a prospective student-athlete who has graduated from high school and signed an National Letter of Intent (NLI) (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid) to be considered as a student-athlete and to be provided the benefits and opportunities of such status.

* Permit a prospective student-athlete who has signed a NLI (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid) and who has graduated from high school to participate on an institution's summer foreign tour.

* Permit an institution to provide medical expenses before initial full-time collegiate enrollment to a prospective student-athlete who has signed a NLI (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid) and who has graduated from high school.

* Permit a prospective student-athlete who has signed a NLI (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid) and who has graduated from high school to work at an institution's camp (subjected to the same employment provisions governing student-athletes).

* Permit an institution to provide a prospective student-athlete who has signed the NLI (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid), but who has not graduated from high school, three complimentary tickets to home and away-from-home women's basketball contests, including postseason NCAA tournament games; further, permit such a prospective student-athlete to have access to the locker room.

[A two-year college transfer who has signed the NLI (or for those institutions not subscribing to the NLI, a written offer of admission or financial aid) and a four-year college transfer who has signed an institutional written offer of admission and/or financial aid and who have completed their academic commitments at their previous institution are to be included in all the aforementioned recommendations.]

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-145 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Out-of-Season Skill Instruction -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to permit four student-athletes to engage in skill-related instruction outside of the playing season with their coach(es) at any one time in separate facilities.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 04-146 Recruiting -- Evaluations During Academic Year -- Nonscholastic Events -- Women's Basketball

Intent: In women's basketball, to prohibit evaluations at nonscholastic events during the women's basketball prospective student-athlete's academic year.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Division II proposals

No. 1 Recruiting -- Transportation on Unofficial Visit -- 30-Mile Radius

Intent: To eliminate the 30-mile radius restriction for transportation to view off-campus practice and competition sites in the prospect's sport or other institutional facilities.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 2 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Scrimmages and Exhibition Contests

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may compete in scrimmage(s) and/or exhibition contest(s) against outside competition without using a season of competition.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 3 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Scrimmages and Exhibition Contests -- Men's and Women's Basketball

Intent: In men's and women's basketball, to specify that a student-athlete may compete in scrimmage(s) and/or exhibition contest(s) against outside competition without using a season of competition.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 4 Eligibility -- Four-Year College Transfers -- One-Time Transfer Exception

Intent: To specify that a transfer student-athlete from a Division I institution to a Division II institution and who has not received a baccalaureate degree may use the one-time transfer exception, provided he or she has at least two seasons of competition remaining in the sport; or for a student-athlete who has one season of competition remaining in the sport, has not received athletically related financial aid from the Division I institution and will not receive athletically related financial aid from the certifying Division II institution.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 5 Financial Aid -- Maximum Equivalency Limits -- Football

Intent: In football, to reduce the maximum limit on the value (equivalency) of financial aid awards from 36 to 24.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 6 Committees -- Sport Committees with only Division II Championships Administration Responsibilities -- Term of Appointment

Intent: To specify that members appointed to fill vacancies on a sports committee with only Division II championships administration responsibilities shall be appointed to a four-year term, regardless of the number of years remaining on the unfulfilled term.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Division III proposals

No. 1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Annual Exemptions -- Alumni Contests in Nontraditional Segment

Intent: In baseball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball and women's volleyball, to grant an exemption for an alumni contest played in the nontraditional segment.

Source: Empire 8.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 2 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Out-of-Season Athletically Related Activities -- Football

Intent: In football, to permit the use of a football and limited skill instruction during the five week out-of-season conditioning and strength training period.

Source: American Southwest Conference and New Jersey Athletic Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 3 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Safety Exception -- Gymnastics

Intent: In gymnastics, to reinstate the safety exception that permits a coach to be present during voluntary workouts to provide safety instruction.

Source: New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.