Academic Performance Programs

No. 03-112 Academic Performance Program

Intent: To establish a program, with appropriate measurements of academic performance, that rewards those institutions and teams that demonstrate commitment toward the academic progress, retention and graduation of student-athletes and penalizes those that fail to demonstrate such commitment. Further, to specify that the Academic Performance Program shall apply to currently enrolled student-athletes receiving institutional financial aid based in any degree on athletics ability or for those teams or institutions that do not offer athletics financial aid, recruited student-athletes who, on or after the varsity team's first date of competition for the championship segment are listed on the varsity team's roster, or who have exhausted eligibility and returned to the institution as a fifth year student to complete a baccalaureate degree.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 02-72 Administrative Regulations -- Graduation Rate Disclosure -- NCAA Graduation Success Rate

Intent: To specify that an institution shall not be eligible to enter a team or an individual competitor in an NCAA championship unless the institution has completed the NCAA Graduation Success Rate report by the deadline established by the Board of Directors.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-113 Academic Performance Program -- Penalties

Intent: To establish a set of penalties that may apply to an institution or team(s) that fails to satisfy the standards of the academic performance program.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-114 Financial Aid -- Contemporaneous Penalty for Poor Academic Performance

Intent: To prohibit an institution or team that is academically subject to the penalties based on the academic performance rate from re-awarding the athletics aid of a student-athlete who fails to meet NCAA, conference and/or institutional academic eligibility requirements and withdraws from the institution, to an incoming prospective (that is, high-school, two-year or four-year) student-athlete during a subsequent academic year, as specified.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Administrative Regulations

No. 03-27 Administrative Regulations -- Certification of Compliance

Intent: To require all athletics department staff members, including clerical personnel, to sign the certification of compliance form.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Amateurism

No. 03-72 Amateurism -- Expenses for Student-Athlete's Friends and Relatives -- Postseason Bowl Games

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit a student-athlete to designate individuals other than his or her parents or legal guardians to receive permissible entertainment expenses related to the student-athlete's participation in the postseason bowl game.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption (Division I-A only).

No. 03-73 Amateurism -- Financial Donations from Outside Organizations -- Professional Sports Organizations

Intent: In sports other that football and men's basketball, to permit an institution's marketing department to enter into a reciprocal contractual relationship with a professional sports organization for the specific purpose of marketing and promoting an institutionally sponsored sport.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Championships

No. 01-5 NCAA Championships -- Site Selection

Intent: To establish criteria for site selection for an NCAA championship that indicates the sports committees may not award a site solely on the basis of the size of the host institution's financial bid guarantee; further, to specify that higher-seeded teams must be accorded priority in the site-selection process.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-13 Championships -- Automatic Qualification

Intent: To eliminate the automatic-qualification period for an institution reclassifying to NCAA Division I status provided the institution joins an established conference that satisfies the continuity-of-membership requirements.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-80 Automatic Qualification -- Men's Basketball Grace Period

Intent: In men's basketball, to increase from one to two years the grace period during which a conference may continue to qualify for automatic qualification to the Division I Men's Basketball Championship when it fails to satisfy either the seven-member or continuity-of-membership requirement.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Proposal No. 03-60-1)

Intent: In sports other than basketball, to permit a single-sport member conference to retain or qualify for automatic qualification to the applicable NCAA championship, provided the conference is composed of at least six members that have conducted conference competition together the preceding two years in the sport in question and compete in the sport in question at the Division I level. (Amended to specify that to be considered for an automatic qualification, a single-sport conference, in those sports in which the only conference membership is such a conference, must include at least six institutions that have conducted conference competition together at the Division I level in the sport at question the preceding two years.)

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Tabled.

Coaching Limitations/Personnel

No. 03-84 Personnel -- Volunteer Coach -- Meals During Official Visit

Intent: In sports other than football and basketball, to permit an institution to provide a volunteer coach meals during a prospective student-athlete's official visit.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-100 Personnel -- Skiing -- Recruiting Off Campus

Intent: In skiing, to increase from one to two the number of coaches who may recruit off campus at any one time.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Committees

No. 03-18 Association-Wide Committees -- Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct -- Reporting to Management Council

Intent: To permit the Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct to be appointed by and report directly to the NCAA Division I Management Council.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-50 Committees -- Committee on Women's Athletics -- Composition

Intent: To require that one of the Committee on Women's Athletics' six Division I members also be a member of the Division I Management Council.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-70 Committees -- Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports -- Composition

Intent: To add one member to the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports; further, to specify that the additional member be a strength and conditioning professional.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-75 Committees -- Football Issues Committee -- Composition

Intent: To specify that the Division I Football Issues Committee shall be composed of 24 members; further, to specify that each Division I-A and Division I-AA conference shall have one representative on the committee, two student-athletes shall serve on the committee, and ex-officio members shall be eliminated.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Eligibility

No. 03-39 Eligibility -- Two-Year College Transfers -- Competition in Year of Transfer

Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student-athlete who has met the two-year transfer eligibility requirements to participate in the championship segment at the certifying institution, provided the student-athlete has not participated in the same championship segment while enrolled at the two-year college during the same academic year.

Effective date: The Council amended the effective date to August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 02-5 Eligibility -- Two-Year College Transfer

Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student-athlete who transfers to the certifying institution during an academic year to compete during the nonchampionship segment of the playing season, even if the student-athlete has competed at the two-year college during the same academic year.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Rendered moot by the approval of Proposal No. 03-39.

No. 03-5 Eligibility -- Satisfactory Progress -- Minimum Grade-Point Average -- Exception -- National Service Academies

Intent: To specify that the national service academies are exempt from the minimum grade-point average requirements.

Council action: Defeated.

Swimming and Diving (as amended by Proposal Nos. 03-14-1 and 03-14-2)

Intent: In tennis and swimming and diving, to specify that a student-athlete who does not enroll in college within one year after the graduation date of the student-athlete's class (as determined by the first year of high-school enrollment or the international equivalent) shall fulfill an academic year in residence upon initial collegiate enrollment. Further, to specify that the student-athlete also loses a season of competition for each year in which the student-athlete has participated in organized tennis or swimming and diving competition during each year after the expected date of high-school graduation (or the international equivalent) and before collegiate enrollment. (Amended to specify that a student-athlete who is not subject to the provisions of Bylaw 14.2.3.2 and enrolls in college (that is, within a year of the graduation date of the student's high-school class), but matriculates at the certifying institution after participating in organized tennis competition after his or her 20th birthday, is subject to a residence requirement and uses a season of eligibility for each year of organized competition after his or her 20th birthday.)

Effective date: Amended to August 1, 2004; for competition occurring on or after August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-38 Eligibility -- Final Semester/ Quarter -- Quarter Exception

Intent: To permit a student-athlete from a quarter institution who graduates after the winter quarter the opportunity to compete in an NCAA championship or a National Invitational Tournament that occurs during the same academic year after the completion of the winter quarter.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-59 Eligibility -- Core-Curriculum Time Limitation

Intent: To permit a student to earn a maximum of one core-course unit in the summer immediately after high-school graduation and before initial, full-time collegiate enrollment.

Effective date: August 1, 2008, for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2008.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Toward Degree -- Missed-Term Exception

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may use the missed-term exception even if the student-athlete is not eligible to enroll at the certifying institution during that term(s).

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Expenses/Awards/Benefits

Proposal No. 03-139-1

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a student-athlete's medical expenses (including surgical expenses, medication, rehabilitation, physical therapy expenses and dental expenses) resulting from any injury or illness regardless of whether the injury or illness occurs during the academic year or summer vacation period. [Amended to specify that an institution may provide a student-athlete medical expenses (including surgical expenses, medication, rehabilitation, physical therapy expenses and dental expenses) that result from an athletically related injury or illness.]

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Meals Incidental to Participation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide meals incidental to participation in conjunction with a home athletics contest.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Miscellaneous Benefits

Intent: To permit an institution to provide an additional meal to a student-athlete during each day of any vacation period that occurs within the academic year, provided the student-athlete is required to remain on campus for practice or competition.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-81 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition -- Other Competition

Intent: To permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses related to participation in Olympic, Pan American, World Championships, World Cup and World University Games competition during an academic year in which a student-athlete is eligible to represent the institution in athletics competition (or in the following summer).

Council action: Defeated.

Financial Aid

No. 02-83-A Financial Aid -- Maximum Limit on Financial Aid -- Individual Limit

Intent: To establish a student-athlete's individual maximum financial aid limit as the cost of attendance; further, to specify that a student-athlete may receive institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion and educational expenses awarded by the USOC or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country) up to the value of a full grant-in-aid. Finally, to specify that a student-athlete may receive any other financial aid unrelated to athletics ability up to cost of attendance; or the value of a full grant-in-aid plus a federal Pell Grant, whichever is greater.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-76 Financial Aid -- Men's Basketball Limitations -- Initial Counters

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate the limit on the number of initial counters.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Membership Legislative Process

No. 02-48 Membership -- Scheduling Requirements -- Men's Swimming and Diving and Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field

Intent: In men's swimming and men's indoor and outdoor track and field, to reduce from 100 to 50 percent the percentage of Division I opponents an institution must schedule to satisfy the minimum contest requirements.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Certification of Insurance Coverage

Intent: To require as a condition and obligation of NCAA membership that an institution certify on an annual basis insurance coverage for athletically related injuries sustained by specified participants in covered events.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Referred to the Insurance Task Force for additional review.

Division I-A Conference -- Exception

Intent: To specify that a Division I-A conference may include in its required eight members an institution that counts as one of its six men's sports and one of its eight women's sports a sport in which it participates through a Division I multi- or single-sport conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Playing and Practice Seasons

Activities -- Multisport Participant

Intent: To specify that a multisport student-athlete's participation in countable athletically related activities shall not exceed a total of 20 hours per week and four hours per day.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Activities -- Outside the Playing Season

Intent: To specify that outside of the playing season during the academic year, a student-athlete's participation in countable athletically related activities is prohibited two days per week; further, to permit an institution to require a student-athlete participate in individual skill instruction while limiting such instruction to two hours within the limit of eight hours of athletically related activities per week.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Foreign Tours and Competition (as amended by Proposal No. 03-67-A)

Intent: To eliminate institutional foreign tours in all sports, with the exception of a combined team tour composed of student-athletes from two or more member institutions that occurs once every four years and involves reciprocal agreements for the opposing team to compete in an event against the member institutions of the combined team in the United States. Further, to permit an institution's women's rowing team to participate in the Henley Women's Regatta and to specify that an institution's participation is excluded from the maximum dates of competition in rowing and shall occur only once every four years.

Effective date: Amended to November 1, 2004.

Council action: Defeated.

No. 03-67-1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Foreign Tours and Competition (as amended by Proposal No. 03-67-1-A)

Intent: To permit institutional foreign tours in all sports, provided the tour does not occur during the period beginning 30-days before the first permissible practice date until the first scheduled contest or date of competition in the applicable sport.

Effective date: Amended to November 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-74 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Required Day Off -- Travel Day

Intent: To specify that an institution may not consider a travel day (defined as 6 a.m. to midnight in the time zone of the certifying institution) related to athletics participation as a day off; further, to specify that if an unexpected transportation delay beyond the control of the institution causes a student-athlete or team to return to campus after 6 a.m., that day may be designated as the required day off provided the student-athlete does not participate in any other countable athletically related activities during that day; finally, to permit a member conference or, in the case of an independent institution, the Division I Administrative Review Subcommittee, to waive the application of the travel day legislation.

Council action: Defeated.

Men's Basketball -- Annual Exemptions

Intent: In men's basketball, to prohibit an institution from playing exhibition contests against noncollegiate teams (for example, foreign team, USA Basketball Club team).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-101 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Maximum Dates of Competition -- Skiing

Intent: In skiing, to count institutional dates of competition separately for Nordic and Alpine events, while maintaining the limit on the total dates of competition in which each individual student-athlete may enter.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that first-time participants (including transfers) at national service academies who have completed basic military training are not required to complete the five-day acclimatization period at the beginning of preseason practice.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption (Division I-A only).

No. 03-108 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Conditioning Activities -- National Service Academies -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that national service academies shall designate nine weeks of student-athlete discretionary time between January 1 and the start of the preseason practice period.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption (Division I-A only).

Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that the restriction on the number of student-athletes who may engage in practice activities before the institution's first day of classes or first contest, whichever occurs first, shall not apply to national service academies.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption (Division I-A only).

Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution, during the five-day acclimatization period, the option of conducting one three-hour on-field practice session per day or, in the alternative, one one-hour testing session (for example, speed, conditioning or agility tests) and one two-hour on-field practice session per day; further, to specify that an institution must provide student-athletes with at least three hours of recovery time between the testing and on-field practice session and protective equipment (for example, helmets, shoulder pads) shall not be worn during such sessions.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Participation -- Gymnastics

Intent: In gymnastics, to exempt the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships from the gymnastics playing and practice season regulations.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

and Conditioning Coach

Intent: To permit a countable coach that is a certified strength and conditioning coach to conduct conditioning workouts during an institution's vacation period.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption (Division I-AA only).

Recruiting

No. 03-22 Recruiting -- Banned-Drug List and Nutritional Supplements (as amended by Proposal No. 03-22-1)

Intent: To require an institution to provide the list of NCAA banned drugs and information about the risks of nutritional supplements to all incoming prospective student-athletes at the earliest practical time but in no case later than July 1 before the prospect's initial full-time enrollment; further, for a prospect whose recruitment is initiated after July 1, the institution must send the banned-drug list at the earliest opportunity. (Amended to permit an institution to provide prospective student-athletes with a Web address for the list of NCAA-banned drugs.)

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-29 Recruiting -- Official Visits -- Waiver of Institutional Limitation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide additional official visits (up to 25 percent of the limitation) when a new coach is hired and the previous coaching staff used 75 percent or more of the official visits allotted for that academic year in the applicable sport.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-31 Recruiting -- Publicity -- Announcement of Signing

Intent: To permit an institution, after a prospect signing a National Letter of Intent or after the prospect's signed acceptance of the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, to release information related to a prospect's signing to any media outlet with no limitations on the number of occasions that such information may be released; further, to prohibit an institution from purchasing or receiving commercial advertising (for example, print, media, billboard) that identifies the prospective student-athlete by name or picture.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To specify that an institution may produce either a recruiting brochure or media guide (but not both) in each sport it sponsors and provide it to a prospect only through electronic mail or the institution's Web site.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet as part of a comprehensive review of recruiting materials.

No. 03-88-1 Recruiting -- Recruiting Materials-- Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 03-88 to permit conference offices to produce hard-copy media guides.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet as part of a comprehensive review of recruiting materials.

Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to send to prospects, prospects' coaches 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, 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.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet as part of a comprehensive review of recruiting materials.

Contacts and Evaluations

Intent: To permit an institution, in all sports, to engage in the following recruiting activities: (1) one in-person, off-campus contact with a prospective student-athlete during April of the prospect's junior year that must occur on the high-school campus (subject to recruiting-calendar restrictions); and (2) one telephone call during March of the prospect's junior year in high school with subsequent telephone calls subject to current sports-specific limitations; further, in Divisions I-A and I-AA football, to permit all institutional staff members to make telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete [or the prospect's parent(s) or legal guardian(s)] subject to current weekly limitations.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Recruiting Communication

Intent: To specify that all electronically transmitted direct human interaction voice exchange shall be considered telephone calls and that all electronically transmitted correspondence shall be considered general correspondence.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Materials -- Video/Audio Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to produce nonpersonalized recruiting video/audio presentations and also to make such presentations available via the institution's Web site and send them electronically to prospects; further, to permit an institution to produce recruiting presentations that include personalized computer-generated presentations but precludes the appearance of any video/audio clips or images of a prospect within the presentation.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet as part of a comprehensive review of recruiting materials.

Other Written Commitment

Intent: To permit an institution to make unlimited calls to a prospect who is not eligible to sign a National Letter of Intent (for example, four-year college transfer) provided the prospect has signed an institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-61 Recruiting -- Evaluations and Telephone Calls -- Basketball (as amended by Proposal No. 03-61-1)

Intent: In basketball, to amend the recruiting regulations as follows: (1) in men's basketball, to establish restrictions during the April contact period that would preclude evaluations at sites other than the prospect's educational institution; (2) in men's and women's basketball, to modify the current July evaluation period to establish a six-day dead period between two 10-day evaluation periods from July 6-15 and July 22-31; and (3) in men's and women's basketball, to permit coaches to make telephone calls to a prospect's high-school coach (or high-school administrator) during the July evaluation period when the high-school coach or administrator is not in attendance at the prospect's certified event. (Amended to maintain the current April contact period legislation for men's basketball, which allows evaluations at events that are approved, sanctioned, sponsored or conducted by the applicable state high-school or two-year college association, National Federation of High School Associations or the National Junior College Athletic Association, and may occur at sites other than the prospect's educational institution only on Saturday and/or Sunday, and not on any weekend during which the PSAT, SAT, PLAN or ACT national standardized tests are administered.)

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

(as amended by Proposal No. 03-63-1)

Intent: To permit noncoaching staff members (for example, compliance coordinators) to present educational sessions at noninstitutional camps/clinics not operated in accordance with restrictions applicable to institutional camps, provided the staff member does not make a recruiting presentation in conjunction with the appearance. (Amended to preclude noncoaching athletics staff members with sport specific responsibilities (for example, director of operations, administrative assistants) from presenting educational sessions at noninstitutional camps/clinics.)

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-77 Recruiting -- Printed Recruiting Materials -- General Correspondence -- Express Mail

Intent: To prohibit an institution from using any express mail services to send recruiting correspondence, other than the National Letter of Intent agreement or other written admissions/financial aid commitment to attend the institution, to domestic prospective student-athletes, their parents or guardians or their coaches.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

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.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet for additional review.

Tryout Exception -- Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution's strength and conditioning coach with department-wide duties to design and conduct specific voluntary workout programs for basketball prospective student-athletes who have either signed a National Letter of Intent or been accepted for enrollment in a regular full-time program of studies at that institution and who are receiving financial aid to attend the institution's summer school before initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3; further, to permit an institution to finance medical expenses for such basketball prospects who sustain an injury while participating in the voluntary summer workouts.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Student-Athlete

Intent: To specify that telephone contact on more than one occasion with a prospective student-athlete does not cause the prospective student-athlete to be considered recruited; further, to specify that the prospective student-athlete shall be recruited if the institution issues the National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the prospect.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet for additional review.

Student-Athlete

Intent: To include the issuance of a National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the current list of actions that cause a prospective student-athlete to be considered recruited.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Referred to the Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet for additional review.

No. 03-98 Recruiting -- Offers and Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To permit an institution's athletics department to employ prospective student-athletes who are not athletics award winners, as specified.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-99 Recruiting -- Offers and Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To specify that institutional departments outside of the athletics department may employ prospective student-athlete who are athletics award winners provided the athletics department is not involved in the arranging of employment; further, to permit an institution's recreation department to employ prospective student-athletes who are athletics award winners, regardless of whether the recreation department reports to the institution's athletics director.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

No. 03-104 Recruiting -- Contacts and Evaluations -- Men's and Women's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate contacts and official visits with prospective student-athletes in their junior year of high school and to reformat the rules surrounding permissible evaluation activities during contact periods for both men's and women's basketball.

Council action: Defeated.

No. 03-111 Recruiting -- Four-Year College Prospects -- Financial Aid

Intent: To permit an institution to provide nonathletically related financial aid during the first academic year to a transfer student-athlete whom the institution did not receive written permission to contact from the previous four-year institution's athletics director (or designee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Proposals considered as emergency or noncontroversial

Intent: Specifying that a student-athlete enrolled in an institutionally approved study-abroad or cooperative-education program shall not be required to satisfy the six-hour requirement for the term or terms of enrollment in such a program.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Not deemed as noncontroversial legislation and will go into the next legislative cycle.

Intent: Allowing student-athletes in their final year of their academic degree to use any academic credits (not just degree-applicable) to satisfy the six-hour requirement.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Intent: To establish a recruiting calendar in women's lacrosse.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that institutions disclose information regarding financial, contractual or fiduciary relationships with corporations and specified entities; further, to eliminate the requirement that institutions and certified event operators disclose comprehensive financial disclosure statements relating to teams of prospects participating on campus or in certified events.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that certified league operators submit review materials after the conclusion of summer league play.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council action: Approved and forwarded to the Board of Directors for adoption.