Following are the legislative items Division II delegates acted on at the Division II business session January 17 at the NCAA Convention in Washington, D.C.

No. 2009-1      Amateurism – Financial Donations from Outside Organizations – Professional Sports Organizations – To Institution

Intent: To specify that a member institution may receive contributions (for example, tickets, funds, memorabilia) from a professional sports organization

Effective date: August 1, 2009

Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote as part of a consent package.

No. 2009-2      Eligibility – Progress-Toward-Degree Requirements – Bona Fide Foreign Exchange Student Exception

Intent: To specify that the eligibility for competition of a student-athlete who meets the bona fide foreign exchange student exception to the four-year college transfer legislation shall be based on the satisfactory completion of progress-toward-degree requirements, as specified.

Effective date: August 1, 2009.

Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote as part of a consent package.

No. 2009-3      Administrative Regulations – Recruiting Calendars – Dead Periods for Other Sports – Men’s Lacrosse

Intent: In men’s lacrosse, to establish additional dead periods (from Thursday before the Division II Men’s Lacrosse Championship to noon on Tuesday after the championship, and from Wednesday before the Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Clinic to noon on Monday after the clinic).

Effective date: August 1, 2009.

Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote as part of a consent package.

No. 2009-4      Personnel – Conduct of Athletics Personnel – Responsibility of Head Coach

Intent: To define the responsibilities of a head coach with regard to compliance of NCAA rules.

Effective date: Immediate.

Convention action: Adopted by roll-call vote, 271-3-1.

No. 2009-5      Division Membership – Definitions and Applications – Emerging Sports for Women – Archery, Badminton, Synchronized Swimming, Team Handball and Sand Volleyball

Intent: To add sand volleyball as an emerging sport for women; further, to remove archery, badminton, synchronized swimming and team handball as emerging sports for women and to eliminate other specified legislation associated with these sports, as specified.

Effective date: August 1, 2009, for the removal of archery, badminton, synchronized swimming and team handball; August 1, 2010, for the addition of sand volleyball.

Convention action: Adopted by roll-call vote, 249-13-13.

No. 2009-6      Division Membership and Committees – Audit of Membership Requirements

Intent: To specify that the Membership Committee shall have the authority to conduct an audit of an institution’s fulfillment of membership requirements if the institution is placed on probation for failure to fulfill more than one membership requirement during a 10-year period and that the committee shall audit only the institution’s fulfillment of membership requirements for which the institution has been placed on probation; further, to specify that the committee may impose conditions or penalties that an institution must satisfy during the probationary period.

Effective date: August 1, 2009.

Convention action: Adopted by roll-call vote, 269-6.

No. 2009-7      Recruiting – Letter-of-Intent Programs, Financial Aid Agreements – Transcript before National Letter of Intent or Written Offer of Athletically Related Financial Aid

Intent: To specify that an institution shall not provide a high school, preparatory school, two-year or four-year college prospect with a National Letter of Intent or written offer of athletically related financial aid until the prospect presents the institution with a current high school, preparatory school or college transcript (official or unofficial). (Note: The President Council approved a noncontroversial amendment stating that prospects who have been certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center are not required to submit transcripts.)

Effective date: August 1, 2009, for written offers of athletically related financial aid signed by a prospect on or after August 1, 2009.

Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.

No. 2009-8      Eligibility – Hardship Waiver – Percentage Calculation

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete’s eligibility for a hardship waiver may be determined by the number of the institution’s completed contests or dates of competition or the maximum permissible number of contests or dates of competition set forth in Bylaw 17 for the applicable sport; further, to eliminate the provision that a conference championship shall be counted as one contest or date of competition in determining the institution’s completed contests or dates of competition in that sport, regardless of the number of days or games involved in the championship.

Effective date: August 1, 2009.

Convention action: Adopted by roll-call vote, 265-9.

No. 2009-9      Eligibility – Season-of-Competition Waiver – Competition while Eligible – Documented Coach’s Misunderstanding – Penalty

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete who is granted an additional season of competition due to a coach’s documented misunderstanding of the legislation shall be withheld from two contests of intercollegiate competition for each contest in which he or she competed.

Convention action: Defeated by paddle vote.

No. 2009-10    Playing and Practice Seasons – General Playing-Season Regulations – Time Limits for Athletically Related Activities – Weekly Hour Limitations – Outside of Playing Season – Exception – Alternate Playing Season – Golf and Tennis

Intent: In golf and tennis, to specify that an institution that conducts its championship segment during the fall term must discontinue practice at the end of its nonchampionship segment (designated 45- or 60-consecutive calendar day period); further, to specify that such a team may resume practice the day after the end of the institution’s final examination period for the applicable academic term or 10-consecutive calendar days before the start of the championship, whichever is earlier, provided the institution has reasonable belief that it is under consideration for selection to participate in an NCAA, NCCAA or NAIA championships event.

Effective date: Immediate.

Convention action: Adopted by paddle vote.

No. 2009-11    Playing and Practice Seasons – Time Limits for Athletically Related Activities – Institutional Vacation Period – Strength and Conditioning Personnel Designing and Conducting Workout Programs

Intent: To specify that outside the playing season during the summer, strength and conditioning personnel who perform such duties for all of the institution’s intercollegiate teams may design and conduct specific workout programs for student-athletes, provided such workouts are voluntary and conducted at the request of the student-athlete.

Convention action: Defeated by roll-call vote, 119-153-3.

No. 2009-12    Playing and Practice Seasons – Basketball – First Contest

Intent: In basketball, to specify that a member institution shall not play its first contest (game or scrimmage) with outside competition before the second Friday of November.

Convention action: Defeated by roll-call vote, 131-142.

No. 2009-13    Playing and Practice Seasons – Basketball – Number of Contests – Once-in-Three-Years Exemption – Conference Challenge Event

Intent: In basketball, to permit an institution, once every three years, to exempt from the maximum contest limitations a maximum of two contests played as part of a conference challenge event, as specified.

Effective date: August 1, 2009.

Convention action: Adopted by roll-call vote, 164-105-4.