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Division I Legislation update


Apr 29, 2008 7:41:52 AM


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The following is a review of the Division I legislation submitted for the 2007-08 regular cycle following the April 24 Board of Directors meeting.

2007-2 Executive Regulations – Definitions and Applications – Misconduct. Effective August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-14 Personnel – Volunteer Coach – Complimentary Meals for Spouse and Children Incidental to Team Activities or Official Visits. Effective Date: August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn

2007-15 Personnel – Volunteer Coach – Complimentary Tickets. Effective Date August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-16-A Personnel and Recruiting – Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches – Recruiting Coordination Functions. Effective Date August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-16-B – Personnel and Recruiting – Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches – Recruiting Coordination Functions – Preparation of General Recruiting Correspondence. Effective date – August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted by Board, in override period.

2007-17 – Personnel and Recruiting – Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches – Recruiting Coordination Functions – Volunteer Coach. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-18 – Personnel and Recruiting – Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches – Recruiting Coordination Functions – Exception – Noncoaching Staff Member – After National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment.  Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-19 – Personnel – Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches – Replacement for National or Olympic Team Coaches. Effective Date: Immediate: Status: Adopted

2007-20 Personnel – Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches – Off Campus Recruiting – Women’s Basketball – Nonscholastic Events During Academic Year. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-21 – Amateurism – General Regulations – Educational Expenses – Prior to Collegiate Enrollment – Permissible Expenses or Services. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-22 – Amateurism – General Regulations – Preferential Treatment, Benefits or Services – Restitution. Effective date: Immediate: Status: Adopted.

2007-23-A – Amateurism – Exceptions to Amateurism Rule – Prize Money Prior to Full-Time Collegiate Enrollment – Tennis - $10,000 per year. Effective date: May 1, 2008 for prize money earned on or after May 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-23-B – Amateurism – Exceptions to Amateurism Rule – Prize Money Prior to Full-Time Collegiate Enrollment – Tennis - $10,000 total limit. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-24 Amateurism – Involvement with Professional Teams – Competition with Professionals – Tennis Exception. Effective date: August 1, 2008, applicable to student-athletes who initially enroll full time in a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-25 – Amateurism – Promotional Activities – Institutional, Charitable, Education or Nonprofit Promotions – Cosponsorship and Sale of Photographs. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Tabled by Management Council.

2007-26 – Amateurism – Permissible and Nonpermissible Promotional Activities – Commercial Advertisement or Promotion. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Tabled by Management Council.

2007-27 – Amateurism – Promotional Activities – Schedule Cards – De Minimis Violation. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-28 – Amateurism – Promotional Activities - Media Activities – Use of a Student-athlete’s Name, Image or Likeness to Promote Coverage of Competition – Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Tabled by Management Council.

2007-29 – Recruiting – Enrolled Student-athlete – Permissible Recruitment Activities – Telephone Contact Initiated by Prospective Student-athletes. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-30-A – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Contactable High School Prospective Student-athletes – Men’s Basketball – Two Contacts with Juniors – No Nonscholastic Evaluations in April. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-30-B – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Men’s Basketball Evaluations – Evaluations During April Contact Period. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Rendered moot.

2007-30-C – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Men’s Basketball Evaluations – April Contact Period. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, in 60-day override period.

2007-31-A – Recruiting – Contactable Prospective Student-athletes – Four-year College Prospective Student-athletes from non-NCAA or non-NAIA Institutions – written notification of intent to contact. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-31-B Recruiting – Contactable Prospective Student-athletes Four-year College Prospective Student-athletes from North American non-NCAA or non-NAIA institutions – Written Notification of Intent to Contact. Effective date:  August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-32 – Recruiting – Permissible Recruiters and Evaluations – Head Coach Restrictions – Spring Evaluation Period – Football – FCS. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-32 – Recruiting – Permissible Recruiters and Evaluations – Head Coach Restrictions – Spring Evaluation Period – Football – FBS. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-33-A – Recruiting – Communication during July Evaluation Periods – After National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment – Women’s Basketball. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-33-B – Recruiting – Telephone Calls during July Evaluation Periods and Other Nonscholastic Events – After National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment – Women’s Basketball. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-34 – Recruiting – Telephone Calls to Prospective Student-athletes – Time Period – Exception – Women’s Soccer. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-35 – Recruiting – Telephone Calls to Prospective Student-athletes – Permissible Callers – Exceptions – Faculty Athletics Representative and Senior Woman Administrator. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted, in 60-day-override period.

2007-36 – Recruiting – Telephone Calls to Prospective Student-athletes – Permissible Callers – Exceptions – Strength and Conditioning Coaches. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Rendered moot.

2007-37 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Telephone Calls to Prospective Student-athletes – Collect and Toll-free Telephone Calls – Exception – Women’s Basketball. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-38 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Recruiting Opportunities – Women’s Basketball – Seven Opportunities. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-39 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Contacts after National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment – Football- Contacts during Spring Evaluation Period – Educational Institution Staff Member Presence – FBS. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-39 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Contacts after National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment – Football- Contacts during Spring Evaluation Period – Educational Institution Staff Member Presence – FCS. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-40 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Contacts after National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment – Football- Contacts During Spring Evaluation Period – FBS. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-40 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Contacts after National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment – Football- Contacts During Spring Evaluation Period – FCS. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, in 60-day override period.

2007-41 – Recruiting – Limitations on the Number of Evaluations – April Contact Period – Evaluations at Nonscholastic Events – Men’s Basketball. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-42- Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Football Evaluations – Scholastic Activities. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-43 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Football Evaluations – Spring Evaluation Period – Scholastic Evaluations Only. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Rendered moot.

2007-44- Recruiting – Offers and Inducements and Tryouts – Use of Academic Support Services/Training-room Facilities in All Sports – Voluntary Summer Conditioning in Football and Basketball. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-45 – Recruiting – Printed Recruiting Materials – Express Mail Services – Pre-enrollment Information. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-46 – Recruiting – Recruiting Materials – Electronic Transmissions – Instant Messages. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-47 – Recruiting – Recruiting Materials – Electronic Transmissions – After National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-48 – Recruiting – Recruiting Materials – Video/Audio Materials – Computer Recruiting Presentations – Location of Presentation. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-49 – Recruiting – Transportation on Official Paid Visit – Coach Accompanying Prospective Student-athlete and Parents or Legal Guardians. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-50 – A – Recruiting – Official Visit – Complimentary Admissions – Exception – Divorced Parents. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Rendered moot.

2007-50-B – Recruiting – Official visit – Complimentary Admissions – Exception – Nontraditional Family. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted, in 60-day override period.

2007-51 – Recruiting – Publicity – Announcement of all Signings – Celebratory Functions. Effective date: immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-52 – Recruiting – U.S. Service Academy Exceptions – Contacts during Spring Evaluation Period of Junior Year in High School – Football. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted, in 60-day override period.

2007-53-A Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Men’s Basketball – May and August Dead Periods. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-53-B Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Men’s Basketball – May Dead Period. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-54-A – Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Football Bowl Subdivision – Fall Evaluation Period – 42 Evaluation Days. August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-54-B – Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Football Bowl Subdivision – Fall Evaluation Period – 42 Evaluation Days – Six Days Per Coach. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-55- Administrative r\Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Softball – Contact Period August 1 through Thanksgiving Day. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-56 Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Men’s Lacrosse – No Lacrosse Evaluations in January, September and October. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-57 – Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Baseball – Contact Period. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-58 – Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Cross country/track and field. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated, in 60-day override period.

2007-59 – Eligibility – Certification of Eligibility – Institutional Responsibility – De Minimis Violation.  Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-60 – Eligibility – Criteria for Determining Season of Eligibility – Tennis – Time Period Prior to Enrollment and Residence Requirement. Effective date: August 1, 2008; applicable to individuals who initially enroll full time at a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-61 – Eligibility – Seasons of Competition – Hardship Waiver – Calculation in Individual Sports. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted, in 60-day override period.

2007-62 – Eligibility – Season of Competition Waiver – Competition While Eligible – Conditions of Competition – Three Events or 30 percent. Effective date: Immediate; applicable to student-athletes who initially enrolled full-time in a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2004. Status: Adopted.

2007-63 – Eligibility – Freshman Academic Requirements – Eligibility for Financial Aid, Practice and Competition – Qualifier – Exception – Early Academic Certification. Effective date: August 1, 2008, for those students first entering a collegiate institution full time on or after August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-64- Eligibility – Freshman Academic Requirements – Core-curriculum Time Limitation – Two Core Courses After Graduation. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-65 – Eligibility – Progress Toward Degree Requirements – Bona Fide Foreign Exchange Student Exception. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-66 – Eligibility – Two-year College Transfers – Nonqualifiers – Transferable English and Math. Effective date: August 1, 2009 – for student-athletes enrolling full-time in a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2009. Status: Adopted, in 60-day override period.

2007-67 – Eligibility – Transfer Regulations – Two-year College Transfers – Transferable Credit – Correspondence, Extension and Distance-learning Courses. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-68 – Eligibility – One-time Transfer Exception – Baseball – Nonscholarship Student-athletes. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated, 60-day override period.

2007-69 – Eligibility – Outside Competition – Sports Other Than Basketball – Exception – Men’s Lacrosse. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-70 – Eligibility – Outside Competition, Effects on Eligibility – Sports Other Than Basketball –Exception – Study Abroad Program. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-71 – Financial Aid – Definitions and Applications – Honorary Academic Award/Research Grant – Objective Criteria Unrelated to Athletics. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-72 – Financial Aid – Summer Financial Aid – Athletics Aid Prior to Initial, Full-time Enrollment at the Certifying Institution – Minimum Three Hours of Coursework. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-73 – Financial Aid – Period of Institutional Financial Aid Award – One-year Period – Exception – Exhausted Eligibility or Medical Noncounter. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.

2007-74 – Financial Aid – Equivalency Computations – Exceptions – Academic Honor Awards – Cumulative Grade-point Average. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-75 – Financial Aid – Initial Counters – Football – Midyear Replacement. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted

2007-76 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Senior Scholar-athlete Award – Maximum Amount of Award. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-77 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Complimentary Admissions and Ticket Benefits – General Regulations – De Minimus Violation. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted

2007-78 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Housing and meals – Meals Incidental to Participation – Home and Away-from-home Competition – Discretionary Meals. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.

2007-79 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Housing and Meals – Meals Incidental to Participation – Meals Following Home and Away-from-home Competition – Meal or $15. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.

2007-80 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition – Departure/Return Expense Restrictions – Exceptions – Conference Championship. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-81 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition – Departure/Return Expense Restrictions – Exceptions – Conference-administered Waiver – Conference Championship. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.

2007-82 – Awards, Benefits and Expenses – Benefits, Gifts and Services – Coaching and Athletics Administration Career Education Programs. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-83 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Time Limits for Athletically Related Activities – Exception – Eligibility Exhausted. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.

2007-84 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Baseball – First Contest Date – Championship Segment – Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico exception. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-85 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Baseball – Number of Contests – Maximum Limitations. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-86 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Baseball – Squad Size Limitation. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-87 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Basketball – Preseason Practice – On-court Practice – 5 p.m. Friday Nearest October 15. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-88 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Women’s Basketball – Preseason Practice – On-court Practice – 40 Days Prior to First Contest. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-89 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Basketball – First Contest – Exceptions – Exhibition Game. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007- 90 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Field Hockey – First Contest or Date of Competition. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-91 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Football – Preseason Practice – Academic Orientation – First-time Participants – Individual Photographs. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-92 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Football – Acclimatization Period and Spring Practice – Protective Equipment – FCS – Effective date: Immediate. Status: Defeated.

2007-92 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Football – Acclimatization Period and Spring Practice – Protective Equipment – FBS – Effective date: Immediate. Status: Referred to Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.

2007-93 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Golf – Annual Exemptions – College All-American Golf Classic – Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-94 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Men’s Ice Hockey – Annual Exemptions – Hockey Commissioners Association/Ice Breaker Tournament. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-95 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Softball – Length of Playing Season – Nonchampionship Segment – 45-day period. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-96 – Playing and Practice Seasons – Wrestling – Number of Dates of Competition – Dual Meets on Consecutive Days – Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted

2007-97 – Championships and Postseason Football – Eligibility for Championships – Ineligibility for Use of Banned Drugs – Duration of Ineligibility – Timing of 365-day Period. Effective date: Immediate. Status – Adopted.

2007-100 – Division Membership – Division I Membership Requirements – Scheduling Requirements – Wrestling. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Referred to Leadership Council.

2007-101 – Division Membership – Division I Requirements – Football Championship Subdivision Requirements – Additional financial aid requirements. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-102 – Committees – Division I Cabinets and Committees – Representation – Exception – Wrestling Committee. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-103 – Committees – Division I Football Championship Committee – Composition. Effective date: Immediate, achieved through normal attrition. Status: Defeated.

2007-104 – Academic Performance Program – Penalties and Rewards – Progression of Penalties – Postseason Competition – Individual Sports. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-105 – Administrative Regulations – Foreign Tours and Competition – Practice Limitations. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-106 – Administrative Regulations – Final Four Basketball Event Certification – Men’s Basketball. Effective date:  Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-107 – Executive Regulations  - Selection for Championships Participation – Automatic Qualification – Additional Requirements – Men’s Basketball – Core Institution. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Withdrawn.

2007-108 – Executive Regulations – Selection for Championships Participation – Balance of Championship Field – Championship Subdivision Football. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Defeated.

2007-109 – Executive Regulations – NCAA Properties and Marketing Restrictions – Exception for Instiuttions Participating in NCAA Championship Events – Number of and Access of Videographers and Photographers. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Board of Directors consideration.

2007-110 – Financial Aid – Reduction and Cancellation During Period of Award – Reduction or Cancellation Not Permitted – Injury, Illness or Physical or Mental Medical Condition. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-111 – Recruiting – Contacts and Evaluations – Men’s Basketball – Summer Evaluation Period – Noninstitutional Nonorganized Events. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-112 – Administrative Regulations – Summer Basketball Leagues and Certified Basketball Events – Additional Criteria – Agents and Medical Insurance. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

 2007-113 – Common Committees – Committees with Playing Rules and Championships Administration Responsibilities – Wrestling Committee. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-114 – Committees – Association-wide Committees – General Committees – Honors Committee – Composition – Chancellor or President. Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-115 – Organization – Division I Governance Structure. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

2007-116 – NCAA Membership – Division I Membership – Moratorium – Football Championship Subdivision Classification.  Effective date: Immediate. Status: Adopted.

2007-117 – Division Membership – Division I Membership Requirements – Philosophy Statement – Self-sufficiency of Athletics Program. Effective date: August 1, 2008. Status: Adopted.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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