Division II delegates to the 2006 NCAA Convention in Indianapolis will consider a total of 40 proposed amendments-to-amendments. All proposals will be considered January 9 during the Division II general business session. Proposal Nos. 1-16 make up the consent package. Proposal Nos. 17-40 make up the Presidents Council grouping.

Effective dates are August 1, 2006, unless otherwise noted. Immediate effective dates must be approved by Convention vote.

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.”

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

Effective date: Immediate.

No. 2 Recruiting — Contacts and Evaluations — Off-Campus Recruiters

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

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

No. 3 Recruiting — Recruiting Materials — Non-Athletically Related Printed Recruiting Materials to a Prospect at AnyTime

Intent: To specify that an institution may provide non-athletically  related recruiting materials to a prospect at any time.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

No. 4 Recruiting — Official Visit — Limitations on Official Visit — State-Administered Act

Intent: To permit an institution to provide an official visit to  a prospective student-athlete who presents scores from a state-administered ACT.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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.

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

No. 6 Recruiting — Tryout Exceptions — Private Lessons — Equestrian

Intent: To permit women’s equestrian coaches to give private

lessons to prospects, as specified.

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

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.

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

No. 8 Recruiting — Pre-college Expenses — Use of Institution’s Facility

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.

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

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate

No. 10 Eligibility — Transfer Regulations — Conditions Affecting Transfer Status

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.

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

No. 11 Financial Aid — Definitions and Applications — Exempted Institutional Aid

Intent: To permit private institutions to exempt out-of-state tuition waivers from counting as institutional financial aid.

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

No. 12 Financial Aid — Equivalency Limits — Women’s Rugby

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

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

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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.

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

No. 15 Playing and Practice Seasons — Length of Playing Season — Rowing — Lightweight Rowing

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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.

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

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.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2006, for all final certifications for student-athletes initially enrolling at a Division II institution on or after August 1, 2007.

No. 20 Amateurism — Promotional Activities — Student-Athlete’s Name, Picture or Likeness

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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).

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

Effective date: Immediate.

No. 22 Eligibility — Four-Year College Transfers — One-Time Exception — Final Season of Competition or Final Two Full-Time Semesters or Three Full-Time Quarters

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,

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

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.

Source: Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Championships Eligibility Project Team)].

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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.

Source: Lone Star Conference, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Great Lakes Valley Conference.

Effective date: Immediate.

Committee position: (NCAA Division II Presidents Council, Management Council and Legislation Committee): The Councils and committee oppose this proposal. The Councils and committee noted this proposal is not student-athlete friendly because it will permit institutions to begin the recruiting process earlier in a prospect’s high-school career when such prospects should be focusing on school and competing at the high-school level. The Councils and committee further noted that this proposal will cause disruption to prospects at a critical period of time during the academic year.

No. 26 Recruiting — Recruiting Advertisements — Non-Athletics Institutional Advertisements

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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.

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

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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).

Source: California Collegiate Athletic Association and Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

Effective date: Immediate.

Committee position: (NCAA Division II Presidents Council, Management Council and Legislation Committee): The Councils and committee support this proposal. The Councils and committee noted that this proposal is consistent with its deregulation efforts. In addition, the Councils and committee noted that the Management Council Administrative Review Subcommittee frequently approves waiver requests regarding the mileage limitation in the local sports clubs legislation.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council.

Effective date: Immediate.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Effective date: Immediate.

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.