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The following list describes legislative actions taken January 9 at the Division II business session of the 2006 NCAA Convention in
The Division II Student-Athlete Advisory Committee supported all proposals except for No. 25, which was withdrawn. The SAAC spoke in support of Proposal Nos. 18, 19 and 22, which were adopted, and Nos. 31 and 34, which were defeated.
Effective dates are
Consent package
- No. 1 Amateurism, Recruiting, and Awards and Benefits — Identified Benefits for Relatives of Prospective Student-Athletes and Student-Athletes
Intent: To change references from “spouse, parents, or family members” to “relatives.”
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To permit all institutional staff members to contact a prospect within 30 miles of campus during the prospect’s official visit.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To specify that an institution may provide non-athletically related recruiting materials to a prospect at any time.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To permit an institution to provide an official visit to a prospective student-athlete who presents scores from a state-administered ACT.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
- No. 5 Recruiting — High-School All-Star Games
Intent: To eliminate legislation affecting the eligibility of student-athletes who compete in high-school football or basketball all-star games; further, to specify that an institution is prohibited from making its facilities available for a high-school all-star game unless specified conditions are satisfied.
Convention action: Adopted.
- No. 6 Recruiting — Tryout Exceptions — Private Lessons — Equestrian
Intent: To permit women’s equestrian coaches to give private lessons to prospects, as specified.
Convention action: Adopted.
- No. 7 Recruiting — Sports Camps and Clinics — Student-Athlete Employment in own Institution’s Camp or Clinic
Intent: 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.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To permit a state high-school association to use an institution’s facilities to host state high-school championship events at a reduced rate.
Convention action: Adopted.
- No. 9 Initial Eligibility — Test-Score Requirement — State-Administered ACT Examination
Intent: To specify that a state-administered ACT examination may be used to meet the initial-eligibility test-score requirement.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To clarify that a student’s physical presence on campus does not invoke transfer status, provided the student does not actually attend a class; further, to specify that the receipt of athletically related institutional financial aid while attending a summer term, summer school or summer-orientation program invokes transfer status.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To permit private institutions to exempt out-of-state tuition waivers from counting as institutional financial aid.
Convention action: Adopted.
- No. 12 Financial Aid — Equivalency Limits — Women’s
Intent: In women’s rugby, to establish a maximum equivalency financial aid limit of 12.
Convention action: Adopted.
- No. 13 Awards and Benefits — Conference Awards — Expenses
Intent: To permit a conference to pay the actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete’s relatives to attend a conference academic awards presentation.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 14 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 with in-pool conditioning activities and swimming-specific equipment may be used.
Convention action: Adopted.
Intent: To permit an institution that sponsors a lightweight rowing program to apply the playing and practice season provisions independently from its open rowing program.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 16 Playing and Practice Seasons — Length of Playing Seasons — Skiing
Intent: To permit an institution that sponsors both Alpine and Nordic skiing to declare separate playing and practice seasons.
Convention action: Adopted.
Presidents Council grouping
No. 17 Institutional Control — Self-Study and Evaluation — Failure to Complete
Intent: To specify that an institution that fails to complete the self-study report within the five-year time period shall be placed on probation and forfeit enhancement funds; further, to specify that institutions that fail to complete the self-study report during the probationary year shall be subject to a $1,000 fine, forfeit enhancement funds, ineligible for NCAA championships and placed on restricted membership status.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted, 247-4-1.
- No. 18 Ethical Conduct — Unethical Conduct
Intent: To specify that unethical conduct shall include the knowing involvement in providing a student-athlete a banned substance, impermissible supplement, or medications contrary to the medical licensure, commonly accepted standards of care in sports-medicine practice, or state or federal law.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted, 257-0-0.
- No. 19 Amateurism — General Regulation — Validity of Amateur Status — Prospective or Transfer Student-Athlete
Intent: To require NCAA certification of the amateur status of any prospective student-athlete (including two-year and four-year transfers) initially enrolling at an NCAA Division II institution.
Effective date:
Convention action: Adopted, 245-9-0.
Intent: To permit the name, picture or likeness of a student-athlete to be used in any institutional, charitable, educational or nonprofit promotion that involves a commercial entity, including media entities, under specified conditions.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 21 Recruiting — Recruiting Advertisements — Shared Home Facility
Intent: To permit an institution to advertise and upgrade its home facility even if that facility is also the home facility for prospective student-athletes (e.g., high-school football stadium).
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 22 Eligibility —
Intent: To specify as a condition of the one-time transfer exception that a student, who has one season of competition remaining in his or her sport or two full-time semesters or three full-time quarters remaining in which to complete his or her eligibility and has not earned a baccalaureate degree, shall have satisfactorily completed an average of 12-semester or 12-quarter hours of transferable degree credit acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree program at the certifying institution for each term of full-time attendance, at any collegiate institution,
Convention action: Adopted, 247-10-1.
No. 23 Eligibility and Championships — Penalty Structure and Championship Selection Process
Intent: To establish an appropriate penalty structure as part of the enforcement and championship selection process as follows: (1) Clarify that all decisions by the Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee are final; (2) amend the Philosophy Statement to indicate championships are for eligible student-athletes; (3) define nullification; (4) establish an appeals process for nullifications; (5) create an eligibility verification form; (6) establish nullification of contests as part of the championship selection criteria; and (7) clarify the process to appeal secondary infractions cases.
Convention action: Adopted, 253-1-1.
Personnel
No. 24 Conduct and Employment of Athletics Personnel — Limitations on Compensation and Remuneration — Employment with Professional Sports Organizations
Intent: To specify that institutional staff members may be employed by a professional sports organization in accordance with institutional policies.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
Recruiting
No. 25 Recruiting — Contacts and Evaluations — Contactable Prospects — High-School Prospects
Intent: To permit an institution to make one telephone call to a prospect in March of the prospect’s junior year in high school; one in-person, off-campus contact during April of the prospect’s junior year in high school; and all other telephone calls or in-person, off-campus contacts on or after June 15 following the completion of the prospect’s junior year in high school.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Withdrawn.
Intent: To permit an institution (or a third party acting on behalf of the institution) to publish non-athletics institutional advertisements in non-athletics, high-school publications and other non-athletics publications, as specified.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 27 Recruiting — Transportation on Official Visit — From Airport
Intent: To permit any member of an institution’s athletics department staff to provide ground transportation during an official visit for a prospect and any prospect’s parents or legal guardians between the campus and any bus, train station or airport.
Effective date: Immediate.
No. 28 Recruiting — Publicity — Announcement of Signing
Intent: To specify that after a prospect has signed a National Letter of Intent or offer of admission and/or financial aid, an institution may release information related to the signing to any media outlet; further to specify that there are no limits on the number of occasions that the information may be released and the institution is not allowed to purchase or receive commercial advertising (e.g., print, media, billboard) that identifies the prospective student- athlete by name or picture.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 29 Recruiting — Tryouts — Local Sports Clubs
Intent: In sports other than basketball, to permit an institution’s coach to be involved as a participant or in instructional or coaching activities in the same sport for a local sports club or organization located in the institution’s home community, provided all prospects participating in said activities are legal residents of the area (within a 100-mile radius of the institution).
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
Eligibility
No. 30 Eligibility — Change in Eligibility Status — Exception
Intent: To establish an exception to the certification of the six-hour term-by-term requirement for those institutions whose submissions or posting date of grades is within three days of 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.
Convention action: Adopted.
Financial aid
No. 31 Financial Aid — Terms and Conditions of Awarding Institutional Financial Aid — Period of Award — One-Year Limit
Intent: To permit athletics awards to be written for the academic year and the following summer at the institution’s discretion.
Convention action: Defeated, 113-141-5.
No. 32 Financial Aid — Equivalency Sports — Equivalency Computations
Intent: To clarify that an institution may use either the actual or average amount received by a student-athlete as the numerator and either the actual or average amount of the full grant-in-aid value in the denominator for equivalency purposes.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted, 232-21-2.
Awards and benefits
No. 33 Awards and Benefits — Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition — Travel Apparel
Intent: To permit an institution to provide student-athletes with team travel outfits, blazers or other items of clothing to travel to and from competition.
Convention action: Adopted.
Playing and practice seasons
No. 34 Playing and Practice Seasons — Playing Season Regulations — Skill Instruction
Intent: In sports other than football, to permit student-athletes and members of the coaching staff to engage in countable athletically related activities outside the institution’s playing season, as specified.
Convention action: Defeated, 103-152-3.
No. 35 Playing and Practice Seasons — Summer Practice — Facility Fees
Intent: To permit an institution to pay fees associated with the use of the institutional practice and competition facilities by student-athletes engaged in voluntary athletically related activities in his or her sport during the summer.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 36 Playing and Practice Seasons — First Date of Competition — Fall Sports
Intent: In cross country, field hockey, football, soccer and women’s volleyball, to specify that an institution shall not engage in its first date of competition before the Thursday preceding August 30.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 37 — Playing and Practice Seasons — Football Five-Day Acclimatization Period — Walk-Throughs
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 (e.g., helmets, shoulder pads) is not worn, equipment related to football (e.g., footballs, blocking sleds) is not used and conditioning activities do not occur.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 38 — Playing and Practice Seasons — Golf — Practice and Competition Dates
Intent: In golf, tournaments count multi-day golf tournaments (up to a maximum of five tournaments) as one date of the 24 practice or competition dates during the nonchampionship segment.
Convention action: Adopted.
Administrative regulations
No. 39 — Administrative Regulations — Certification of Compliance
Intent: To require all athletics department staff members, except for students or student-athletes responsible only for the completion of clerical duties, to sign the certification of compliance form.
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 40 — Administrative Regulations — 10-Semester/15-Quarter Rule Waiver — Student-Athlete Not Using a Season of Competition During Initial Year of Collegiate Enrollment
Intent: To permit a student-athlete who does not compete during his or her first season of competition and, due to circumstances beyond his or her control, is not able to complete four seasons of competition prior to the expiration of intercollegiate eligibility, to receive an eligibility extension.
Convention action: Adopted.
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