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Following are the legislative actions taken during the Division II business session January 8 at the NCAA Convention in Orlando, Florida. Effective dates are August 1, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
Consent package
No. 1 Eligibility — Progress Toward Degree and Transfers — Two-Year Nonparticipation or Minimal Participation Exception
Intent: To permit a student-athlete to use the two-year nonparticipation exception to the progress-toward-degree requirements or the transfer residency requirement, provided he or she has not competed in intercollegiate competition and has not engaged in other countable athletically related activities in intercollegiate athletics beyond a 14 consecutive calendar day period, which begins with the date on which the student-athlete first engages in countable activities.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: Immediate, for any progress-toward-degree certification or transfer on or after August 1, 2006.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 2 Eligibility — Transfer Residence Requirement — Championship Eligibility
Intent: To specify that a student-athlete who is required to fulfill an academic year of residence is not eligible to participate in any NCAA championship during the vacation period immediately after the academic year of residence.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 3 Eligibility — Transfers — Four-Year College Transfers — Nonrecruited Student Exception
Intent: To permit a four-year college transfer student-athlete to use the nonrecruited student exception to the transfer residency requirement, provided he or she has not competed for any previous institution and has not engaged in countable athletically related activities in intercollegiate athletics at any previous institution beyond a 14 consecutive calendar day period, which begins with the date on which the student-athlete first engages in countable activities.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: Immediate, for any transfer occurring on or after August 1, 2006.
Convention action: Adopted.
Presidents Council grouping
No. 4 NCAA Membership — Division II Membership — Membership Process — Provisional and Reclassifying Institutions
Intent: To establish a uniform membership process for provisional and reclassifying institutions seeking to become active members of Division II, as follows: (1) Require sponsorship by an active Division II member or conference; and, (2) Establish a two-part membership process, consisting of an exploratory period and a provisional period, which must be completed prior to receiving an invitation to active membership status.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Committee)].
Effective date: August 1, 2007; for those institutions entering the membership process on August 1, 2007 and thereafter.
Convention action: Adopted, 258-0-1.
No. 5 Recruiting and Awards and Benefits — Strategic-Positioning and Community-Engagement Initiatives
Intent: To establish an environment for strategic-positioning and community-engagement activities, as follows: (1) Define a community-engagement activity; (2) Specify that the recruiting regulations do not apply when institutional staff members (including spouses and other family members), representatives of the institution’s athletics interests and student-athletes are engaged in community-engagement activities with prospective student-athletes, as specified; (3) Specify that an enrolled student-athlete may have contact with a prospective student-athlete, including off-campus, in-person contact, written or electronically transmitted correspondence and telephone contact, at any time, provided the contact is not at the direction of a coaching staff member or a representative of the institution’s athletics interests; (4) Permit a spouse, other family members (for example, children) and a significant other of an institutional staff member to have contact with a prospective student-athlete either on or off campus and on an official visit within the locale of the institution; (5) Amend the meeting or banquet legislation for all sports, as specified; (6) Specify that an institution may advertise or promote its community engagement activities in any publication; (7) Permit an institution or conference to donate used athletics and nonathletics equipment to high schools, as specified; (8) Permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses to student-athletes for participation in community engagement activities; (9) Permit a community organization or entity to provide actual and necessary expenses to student-athletes for participation in community engagement activities; and (10) Permit an institution or an entity within the institution’s community to recognize student-athletes for their community engagement achievements, as specified.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council (Management Council [Community Advisory Group]).
Convention action: Adopted, 255-3-2.
No. 6 Recruiting — Official-Visit Requirements and Written Offers of Athletically Related Financial Aid — Registration with Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse and Institutional Request List
Intent: To specify that an institution shall not provide an official visit to a high school or preparatory school prospective student-athlete until he or she registers with the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse and is placed on the institutional request list; further, to specify that an institution shall not provide a high school or preparatory school prospective student-athlete a written offer of athletically related financial aid until the prospective student-athlete has registered with the Clearinghouse and the institution places the prospective student-athlete on the institutional request list with the Clearinghouse.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (NCAA Working Group to Review Initial-Eligibility Trends)].
Convention action: Adopted, 208-50-1.
No. 7 Financial Aid and Executive Regulations — Eligibility for Championships — Structure of Football Championship Classifications
Intent: In football, to establish two championship classifications, based on the total number of financial aid equivalencies provided by an institution; further, to specify that an institution or conference on behalf of its member institutions shall declare once every three years the championship classification in which its member institutions will participate.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Football Task Force) (Developed by the Football Task Force and introduced by the NCAA Division II Management Council to fulfill its obligation to the membership by recommending a proposal to address issues regarding the Division II football championship structure)].
Effective date: August 1, 2008, for those conferences and institutions participating in the championship segment on or after August 1, 2009.
Convention action: Defeated, 29-117-1.
No. 8 Financial Aid — Maximum Equivalency Limits — Division-Dominant Provisions
Intent: To specify that the financial aid maximum equivalency limits legislation and all its subparts are division-dominant provisions.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Football Task Force)].
Convention action: Adopted, 130-125-1.
Legislative authority and process
No. 9 Legislative Authority and Process — Amendment Process — Special Voting Requirements — Financial Aid Equivalency Reductions
Intent: To specify that an amendment to reduce the financial aid equivalency in any sport requires a two-thirds majority vote of all members present and voting at an annual or special Convention.
Source: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Gulf South Conference.
Convention action: Rendered moot by the passage of Proposal No. 8.
Student-athlete well-being grouping
No. 10 Amateurism — Draft and Inquiry — Draft Exception — All Sports
Intent: To permit an enrolled student-athlete in any sport to enter a professional league’s draft an unlimited number of times during his or her collegiate career and be drafted by any team in the league without jeopardizing eligibility in that sport, provided the student-athlete does not hire an agent, sign an agreement with any professional athletics team or otherwise jeopardize his or her amateur status.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 11 Amateurism — Promotional Activities — Continuation of Modeling and Other Nonathletically Related Promotional Activities After Enrollment
Intent: To remove the condition that a student-athlete’s involvement in modeling and other nonathletically related promotional activities must be initiated before enrollment at a member institution.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 12 Amateurism — Promotional Activities — Permissible — Educational Products Related to Sport Skill Instruction
Intent: To permit a student-athlete to receive actual and necessary expenses for participation in activities involving educational products related to sport skill instruction; further, to specify that a student-athlete shall not miss class time to participate in the activity.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 13 Eligibility — General Requirements — Graduate Student/Postbaccalaureate/Second Baccalaureate Participation — Transfer Eligibility
Intent: To permit a student-athlete who is enrolled in a graduate or professional school or is enrolled and seeking a second baccalaureate or equivalent degree, at an institution other than the institution from which he or she previously received a baccalaureate degree, to participate in intercollegiate athletics regardless of any previous transfer, provided the student has eligibility remaining.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted, 233-24.
Ethical conduct
No. 14 Ethical Conduct — Sports-Wagering Activities
Intent: To specify and clarify prohibited sports-wagering activities and the individuals to whom the prohibitions apply.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Personnel
No. 15 Personnel — Conduct and Athletics Personnel — Sports Safety Training
Intent: To specify that all coaches present at each practice, competition, skill instruction and strength and conditioning session involving student-athletes shall be certified in first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator use and shall be familiar with emergency plan activation policies.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports)].
Convention action: Defeated, 127-127-1.
Amateurism
No. 16 Amateurism — Involvement with Professional Teams — Tryout After Enrollment
Intent: To permit a student-athlete to try out with a professional team at anytime outside the student-athlete’s playing and practice season and to receive actual and necessary expenses from a professional sports organization, provided the tryout does not exceed 48 hours.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted, 187-68-3.
No. 17 Amateurism — Involvement with Professional Teams — Draft and Inquiry — Exception — International Basketball Draft
Intent: In basketball, to permit a student-athlete in his or her final year of eligibility to enter and be drafted during the basketball season by an international organization without forfeiting his or her eligibility in basketball.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Rendered moot by the passage of Proposal No. 10.
Recruiting
No. 18 Recruiting, Eligibility and Financial Aid — Hearing Opportunity — Policies and Procedures
Intent: To specify that notification of the institution’s decision to deny a student-athlete’s request to permit another institution to contact the student-athlete about transferring, notification of the institution’s decision to deny the student-athlete’s request for release as a condition of the one-time transfer exception and notification to a student-athlete regarding the reduction or cancellation of aid during the period of the award or the reduction or nonrenewal of aid for the following academic year must include a copy of the institution’s established policies and procedures for conducting the required hearing, including the deadline by which a student-athlete must request such a hearing; further, to specify that the institution shall conduct the hearing within 30 consecutive calendar days of receiving a student-athlete’s request.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Eligibility
No. 19 Eligibility and Playing and Practice Seasons — Definitions and Applications — Intercollegiate Competition — Exemptions — Four-Year College Transfer Students — Club Team Participation
Intent: To specify that a four-year college transfer student who participates on the previous four-year institution’s club team before transfer shall not be charged with a season of intercollegiate competition.
Source: California Collegiate Athletic Association and Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
Convention action: Not moved.
No. 20 Eligibility — Two-Year College Transfers — Qualifiers With No Previous Attendance at a Four-Year Collegiate Institution
Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student, who was a qualifier and who has not previously attended a four-year collegiate institution, to be eligible for competition, practice and athletics aid at a Division II institution during the first academic year in residence, provided the student-athlete spent one full-time semester or quarter at the two-year college, presented a minimum grade-point average of 2.000 and satisfactorily completed an average of 12-semester or quarter hours of transferable degree credit acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree program at the certifying institution for each full-time academic term of attendance at the two-year college.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 21 Eligibility — Two-Year College Transfers — Credit Earned at Four-Year Institution — Prior Approval
Intent: To permit an institution to certify the eligibility of a two-year college transfer student who attended a two-year collegiate institution and, before regular enrollment at the certifying institution, earned credits at a four-year collegiate institution as a part-time student, by using such credits to meet the credit hour requirement of the two-year college transfer rule, as specified.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Playing and practice seasons
No. 22 Playing and Practice Seasons — Playing-Season Regulations — Weekly Hour Limitations — Outside of Playing Season — Individual or Team Skill Instruction — Sports Other Than Football
Intent: To specify that all countable athletically related activities outside the playing season are prohibited one week before the beginning of the final examination period through the conclusion of each student-athlete’s final examinations; further, in sports other than football, to specify that there are no limitations on the number of student-athletes from the same team who may be involved in individual or team skill-related instruction with their coaches.
Source: Sunshine State Conference and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
Convention action: Withdrawn by sponsors.
No. 23 Playing and Practice Seasons — Preseason Practice — Medical Examinations
Intent: To require prospective student-athletes and student-athletes to undergo a medical examination administered or supervised by a physician before initial participation in any practice, competition or out-of-season conditioning activities; further, to require an updated medical history each subsequent year.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Consent package
No. 1 Eligibility — Progress Toward Degree and Transfers — Two-Year Nonparticipation or Minimal Participation Exception
Intent: To permit a student-athlete to use the two-year nonparticipation exception to the progress-toward-degree requirements or the transfer residency requirement, provided he or she has not competed in intercollegiate competition and has not engaged in other countable athletically related activities in intercollegiate athletics beyond a 14 consecutive calendar day period, which begins with the date on which the student-athlete first engages in countable activities.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: Immediate, for any progress-toward-degree certification or transfer on or after August 1, 2006.
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 2 Eligibility — Transfer Residence Requirement — Championship Eligibility
Intent: To specify that a student-athlete who is required to fulfill an academic year of residence is not eligible to participate in any NCAA championship during the vacation period immediately after the academic year of residence.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted.
No. 3 Eligibility — Transfers — Four-Year College Transfers — Nonrecruited Student Exception
Intent: To permit a four-year college transfer student-athlete to use the nonrecruited student exception to the transfer residency requirement, provided he or she has not competed for any previous institution and has not engaged in countable athletically related activities in intercollegiate athletics at any previous institution beyond a 14 consecutive calendar day period, which begins with the date on which the student-athlete first engages in countable activities.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: Immediate, for any transfer occurring on or after August 1, 2006.
Convention action: Adopted.
Presidents Council grouping
No. 4 NCAA Membership — Division II Membership — Membership Process — Provisional and Reclassifying Institutions
Intent: To establish a uniform membership process for provisional and reclassifying institutions seeking to become active members of Division II, as follows: (1) Require sponsorship by an active Division II member or conference; and, (2) Establish a two-part membership process, consisting of an exploratory period and a provisional period, which must be completed prior to receiving an invitation to active membership status.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Committee)].
Effective date: August 1, 2007; for those institutions entering the membership process on August 1, 2007 and thereafter.
Convention action: Adopted, 258-0-1.
No. 5 Recruiting and Awards and Benefits — Strategic-Positioning and Community-Engagement Initiatives
Intent: To establish an environment for strategic-positioning and community-engagement activities, as follows: (1) Define a community-engagement activity; (2) Specify that the recruiting regulations do not apply when institutional staff members (including spouses and other family members), representatives of the institution’s athletics interests and student-athletes are engaged in community-engagement activities with prospective student-athletes, as specified; (3) Specify that an enrolled student-athlete may have contact with a prospective student-athlete, including off-campus, in-person contact, written or electronically transmitted correspondence and telephone contact, at any time, provided the contact is not at the direction of a coaching staff member or a representative of the institution’s athletics interests; (4) Permit a spouse, other family members (for example, children) and a significant other of an institutional staff member to have contact with a prospective student-athlete either on or off campus and on an official visit within the locale of the institution; (5) Amend the meeting or banquet legislation for all sports, as specified; (6) Specify that an institution may advertise or promote its community engagement activities in any publication; (7) Permit an institution or conference to donate used athletics and nonathletics equipment to high schools, as specified; (8) Permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses to student-athletes for participation in community engagement activities; (9) Permit a community organization or entity to provide actual and necessary expenses to student-athletes for participation in community engagement activities; and (10) Permit an institution or an entity within the institution’s community to recognize student-athletes for their community engagement achievements, as specified.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council (Management Council [Community Advisory Group]).
Convention action: Adopted, 255-3-2.
No. 6 Recruiting — Official-Visit Requirements and Written Offers of Athletically Related Financial Aid — Registration with Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse and Institutional Request List
Intent: To specify that an institution shall not provide an official visit to a high school or preparatory school prospective student-athlete until he or she registers with the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse and is placed on the institutional request list; further, to specify that an institution shall not provide a high school or preparatory school prospective student-athlete a written offer of athletically related financial aid until the prospective student-athlete has registered with the Clearinghouse and the institution places the prospective student-athlete on the institutional request list with the Clearinghouse.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (NCAA Working Group to Review Initial-Eligibility Trends)].
Convention action: Adopted, 208-50-1.
No. 7 Financial Aid and Executive Regulations — Eligibility for Championships — Structure of Football Championship Classifications
Intent: In football, to establish two championship classifications, based on the total number of financial aid equivalencies provided by an institution; further, to specify that an institution or conference on behalf of its member institutions shall declare once every three years the championship classification in which its member institutions will participate.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Football Task Force) (Developed by the Football Task Force and introduced by the NCAA Division II Management Council to fulfill its obligation to the membership by recommending a proposal to address issues regarding the Division II football championship structure)].
Effective date: August 1, 2008, for those conferences and institutions participating in the championship segment on or after August 1, 2009.
Convention action: Defeated, 29-117-1.
No. 8 Financial Aid — Maximum Equivalency Limits — Division-Dominant Provisions
Intent: To specify that the financial aid maximum equivalency limits legislation and all its subparts are division-dominant provisions.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Football Task Force)].
Convention action: Adopted, 130-125-1.
Legislative authority and process
No. 9 Legislative Authority and Process — Amendment Process — Special Voting Requirements — Financial Aid Equivalency Reductions
Intent: To specify that an amendment to reduce the financial aid equivalency in any sport requires a two-thirds majority vote of all members present and voting at an annual or special Convention.
Source: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Gulf South Conference.
Convention action: Rendered moot by the passage of Proposal No. 8.
Student-athlete well-being grouping
No. 10 Amateurism — Draft and Inquiry — Draft Exception — All Sports
Intent: To permit an enrolled student-athlete in any sport to enter a professional league’s draft an unlimited number of times during his or her collegiate career and be drafted by any team in the league without jeopardizing eligibility in that sport, provided the student-athlete does not hire an agent, sign an agreement with any professional athletics team or otherwise jeopardize his or her amateur status.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 11 Amateurism — Promotional Activities — Continuation of Modeling and Other Nonathletically Related Promotional Activities After Enrollment
Intent: To remove the condition that a student-athlete’s involvement in modeling and other nonathletically related promotional activities must be initiated before enrollment at a member institution.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 12 Amateurism — Promotional Activities — Permissible — Educational Products Related to Sport Skill Instruction
Intent: To permit a student-athlete to receive actual and necessary expenses for participation in activities involving educational products related to sport skill instruction; further, to specify that a student-athlete shall not miss class time to participate in the activity.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Effective date: Immediate.
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 13 Eligibility — General Requirements — Graduate Student/Postbaccalaureate/Second Baccalaureate Participation — Transfer Eligibility
Intent: To permit a student-athlete who is enrolled in a graduate or professional school or is enrolled and seeking a second baccalaureate or equivalent degree, at an institution other than the institution from which he or she previously received a baccalaureate degree, to participate in intercollegiate athletics regardless of any previous transfer, provided the student has eligibility remaining.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted, 233-24.
Ethical conduct
No. 14 Ethical Conduct — Sports-Wagering Activities
Intent: To specify and clarify prohibited sports-wagering activities and the individuals to whom the prohibitions apply.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Personnel
No. 15 Personnel — Conduct and Athletics Personnel — Sports Safety Training
Intent: To specify that all coaches present at each practice, competition, skill instruction and strength and conditioning session involving student-athletes shall be certified in first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator use and shall be familiar with emergency plan activation policies.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports)].
Convention action: Defeated, 127-127-1.
Amateurism
No. 16 Amateurism — Involvement with Professional Teams — Tryout After Enrollment
Intent: To permit a student-athlete to try out with a professional team at anytime outside the student-athlete’s playing and practice season and to receive actual and necessary expenses from a professional sports organization, provided the tryout does not exceed 48 hours.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted, 187-68-3.
No. 17 Amateurism — Involvement with Professional Teams — Draft and Inquiry — Exception — International Basketball Draft
Intent: In basketball, to permit a student-athlete in his or her final year of eligibility to enter and be drafted during the basketball season by an international organization without forfeiting his or her eligibility in basketball.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Rendered moot by the passage of Proposal No. 10.
Recruiting
No. 18 Recruiting, Eligibility and Financial Aid — Hearing Opportunity — Policies and Procedures
Intent: To specify that notification of the institution’s decision to deny a student-athlete’s request to permit another institution to contact the student-athlete about transferring, notification of the institution’s decision to deny the student-athlete’s request for release as a condition of the one-time transfer exception and notification to a student-athlete regarding the reduction or cancellation of aid during the period of the award or the reduction or nonrenewal of aid for the following academic year must include a copy of the institution’s established policies and procedures for conducting the required hearing, including the deadline by which a student-athlete must request such a hearing; further, to specify that the institution shall conduct the hearing within 30 consecutive calendar days of receiving a student-athlete’s request.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Legislation Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Eligibility
No. 19 Eligibility and Playing and Practice Seasons — Definitions and Applications — Intercollegiate Competition — Exemptions — Four-Year College Transfer Students — Club Team Participation
Intent: To specify that a four-year college transfer student who participates on the previous four-year institution’s club team before transfer shall not be charged with a season of intercollegiate competition.
Source: California Collegiate Athletic Association and Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
Convention action: Not moved.
No. 20 Eligibility — Two-Year College Transfers — Qualifiers With No Previous Attendance at a Four-Year Collegiate Institution
Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student, who was a qualifier and who has not previously attended a four-year collegiate institution, to be eligible for competition, practice and athletics aid at a Division II institution during the first academic year in residence, provided the student-athlete spent one full-time semester or quarter at the two-year college, presented a minimum grade-point average of 2.000 and satisfactorily completed an average of 12-semester or quarter hours of transferable degree credit acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree program at the certifying institution for each full-time academic term of attendance at the two-year college.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
No. 21 Eligibility — Two-Year College Transfers — Credit Earned at Four-Year Institution — Prior Approval
Intent: To permit an institution to certify the eligibility of a two-year college transfer student who attended a two-year collegiate institution and, before regular enrollment at the certifying institution, earned credits at a four-year collegiate institution as a part-time student, by using such credits to meet the credit hour requirement of the two-year college transfer rule, as specified.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Academic Requirements Committee)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
Playing and practice seasons
No. 22 Playing and Practice Seasons — Playing-Season Regulations — Weekly Hour Limitations — Outside of Playing Season — Individual or Team Skill Instruction — Sports Other Than Football
Intent: To specify that all countable athletically related activities outside the playing season are prohibited one week before the beginning of the final examination period through the conclusion of each student-athlete’s final examinations; further, in sports other than football, to specify that there are no limitations on the number of student-athletes from the same team who may be involved in individual or team skill-related instruction with their coaches.
Source: Sunshine State Conference and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
Convention action: Withdrawn by sponsors.
No. 23 Playing and Practice Seasons — Preseason Practice — Medical Examinations
Intent: To require prospective student-athletes and student-athletes to undergo a medical examination administered or supervised by a physician before initial participation in any practice, competition or out-of-season conditioning activities; further, to require an updated medical history each subsequent year.
Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports)].
Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.
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