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May 6, 2010 10:48:20 AM

Following is a review of the status of Division I legislation submitted for the 2009-10 regular cycle after the April 29 Board of Directors meeting.

• 2009-9 – Ethical Conduct – Unethical Conduct – Knowingly influencing others to furnish false or misleading information. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-10 – Personnel – Definitions and Applications – Graduate-assistant coach – Employment within seven years of graduation or exhausting eligibility – Bowl Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-11 – Personnel – Definitions and Applications – Graduate-assistant coach – Bowl Subdivision Football and Women's Rowing – Less than 50 percent of full-time enrollment during final term. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-12 -A – Personnel – Definitions and Applications – Undergraduate student assistant coach. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-12 -B – Personnel – Definitions and Applications – Student assistant coach – elimination of five-year eligibility period. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-13 – Personnel and recruiting – Recruiting coordination functions – Permissible callers – Exception – Volunteer coach – Track and field. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-14 -A – Personnel – Definitions and Applications – Manager – Forfeiture of eligibility – Baseball. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-14-B – Personnel – Definitions and Applications – Manager. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-15 – Personnel – Limitations on the number and duties of coaches – Noncoaching activities – Noncoaching athletics staff member with sport-specific responsibilities. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-16-A – Personnel – Limitations on the number and duties of coaches – Contact and evaluation of prospective student-athletes – Fall evaluation period – Exception – Football. Status: Rendered moot.
• 2009-16-B – Personnel – Limitations on the number and duties of coaches – Contact and evaluation of prospective student-athletes – Fall evaluation period – Exception – Football – One seven day period. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-17 – Personnel – Certification to recruit of campus – Certification administration – Faculty athletics representative or designee. Status: Defeated.
•  2009-18 – Personnel and recruiting – Recruiting coordination functions – exception – noncoaching staff members and noncountable coaches – telephone calls in conjunction with official visit. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-19-A – Personnel – Limitations on number of coaches and off-campus recruiters – Women's sand volleyball and women's volleyball. Status: Final consideration.
• 2009-19-B – Personnel – Limitations on number of coaches and off-campus recruiters – Women's sand volleyball. Status: Final consideration.
• 2009-20 – Personnel – Limitations on the number of off-campus recruiters – On-campus events – Women's basketball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-21 – Personnel and recruiting – Limitations on number of coaches and off-campus recruiters – Evaluation days – Local sports clubs – Women's volleyball. Status: Withdrawn.
• 2009-22 – Amateurism and eligibility – Involvement with professional teams – Exception – prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment – Delayed enrollment – Seasons of competition – Sports other than men's ice hockey and skiing. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-23 – Amateurism and awards, benefits and expenses – Exceptions to amateurism rule – Benefits, gifts and services – Insurance against disabling-injury or illness. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-24 – Amateurism – Involvement with professional teams – Tryouts – Men's ice hockey. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-25 – Amateurism – Promotional activities – Institutional charitable, education or nonprofit promotions – Release statement – De minimum violation. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-26 – Recruiting – Definitions and applications – Dead period – Exception – Unofficial visit after National Letter of Intent signing or other written commitment. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-27 – Recruiting – Definitions and applications – Evaluation days – Spring evaluation period – 168 days – Football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-28-A – Recruiting – Contacts and evaluations – Telephone calls – Official and unofficial visits – Offers of financial aid – Tryouts – Women's soccer. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-28-B – Recruiting – Contacts and evaluations – Telephone calls – Official and unofficial visits – Offers of financial aid. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-29 – Recruiting and eligibility – Four-year prospective student-athletes – Permission to contact and transfer release – Response to request and hearing opportunity. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-30-A – Recruiting – Permissible recruiters – Noncoaching staff members with sport-specific responsibilities – Basketball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-30-B – Recruiting – Permissible recruiters – Noncoaching staff members with sport-specific responsibilities. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-31-  Recruiting – Contacts and evaluations – Head coach restrictions – Assistant coach publicly designated as next head coach – Bowl subdivision football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-32-A – Recruiting – Telephone calls – Time period for telephone calls – Exception – Unlimited during contact period – Sports other than football. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-32-B – Recruiting – Telephone calls – Time period for telephone calls – Exception – Unlimited during contact period – Sports with defined recruiting calendars other than football. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-33 – Recruiting – Telephone calls – Exception – Unlimited after receipt of financial deposit. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-34 – Recruiting – Telephone calls – Exception – Day of unofficial visit. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-35 – Recruiting – Contacts and evaluations – Visit to prospective student-athlete's educational institution – Visits during evaluation period – Bowl Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-35 – Recruiting – Contacts and evaluations – Visit to prospective student-athlete's educational institution – Visits during evaluation period – Championship Subdivision Football. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-36 – Recruiting – Evaluations – Nonscholastic evaluations during academic year – National standardized testing weekends – Women's basketball. Status: Withdrawn.
• 2009-37 – Recruiting – Evaluations – Summer evaluation period – noninstitutional nonorganized events – Women's basketball – Status: Adopted.
• 2009-38 – Recruiting – Evaluations – Scholastic and nonscholastic activities – Championship Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-39 – Recruiting – Limitations on number of evaluations – Evaluation days – Women's sand volleyball Status: Final consideration.
• 2009-40 – Recruiting – Printed recruiting materials – General correspondence – Institutional letterhead. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-41 – Recruiting – Recruiting materials – Athletics publications – No printed media guides or recruiting brochures. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-42 – Recruiting – Recruiting materials – Athletics publications – No printed publications to prospective student-athletes. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-43 – Recruiting – Recruiting materials – Electronic transmissions – Exception – After receipt of financial deposit. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-44 – Recruiting – Recruiting materials – Video/audio materials and computer generated recruiting presentations. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-45 – Recruiting – Official visit – First opportunity to visit – June immediately prior to senior year – Football. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-46 – Recruiting – Official visit – Number of official visits – Institutional limitation – De minimis violation. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-47-A – Recruiting – Letter of intent programs, financial aid agreements – Written offer of aid before signing date – Bowl subdivision football. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-47-A – Recruiting – Letter of intent programs, financial aid agreements – Written offer of aid before signing date – Championship subdivision football. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-47-B – Recruiting, Letter of intent programs, financial aid agreements – Written offer of aid before signing date. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-48 – Recruiting and financial aid – Letter of intent programs, financial aid agreements – Letter of intent restriction – Limitation on number of signings – Bowl Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-49 – Recruiting – Tryouts – Competition against prospective student-athletes – Bowl Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-49 – Recruiting – Tryouts – Competition against prospective student-athletes – Championship Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-50 – Recruiting and administrative regulations – Local sports clubs – Additional restrictions – Quiet periods – Women's soccer. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-51-B – Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Institution's sports camps and clinics – Location restriction – Basketball. Status: Adopted, 60-day period.
• 2009-52 – Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Conducted during June, July and August – Employment in noninstitutional, privately owned camps and clinics at any location – Championship Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-53 – Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Conducted during June, July and August – Football. Status: Withdrawn.
• 2009-54-A – Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Employment in noninstitutional, privately owned camps or clinics at any location – Bowl Subdivision Football. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-54-A – Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Employment in noninstitutional, privately owned camps or clinics at any location – Championship Subdivision Football. Status: Rendered moot.
• 2009-54-B Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Employment in noninstitutional, privately owned camps or clinics – Bowl Subdivision Football – Exception – countable coach – One camp or clinic per year outside the location restriction. Status: Rendered moot.
• 2009-55- Recruiting – Camps and clinics – Employment during quiet periods – Women's volleyball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-56 – Recruiting – Use of recruiting funds – Recruiting or scouting services – Criteria for subscription. Status: Adopted.
•  2009-57 – Administrative regulations – Recruiting calendars – Football – Quiet periods in January. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-58 – Administrative regulations – Recruiting calendars – Men's soccer. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-59 – Administrative regulations – Recruiting calendars – Women's volleyball – Evaluation period in conjunction with championship. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-60 – Eligibility – Academic waivers – Authority of initial-eligibility waivers committee and progress-toward-degree waivers committee. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-61 – Eligibility – Full time enrollment – Requirement for practice – Waiver – U.S. Olympic Committee/national governing body/ Former student-athlete at another institution – Individual sports and women's rowing. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-62 – Eligibility – Full-time enrollment – Requirement for practice – Waiver – U.S. Olympic Committee/national governing body – Former student-athlete – Duration of waiver – Individual sports and women's rowing. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-63 – Eligibility – Seasons of competition – Criteria for determining season of competition – Alumni game, fundraising activity or celebrity sports activity. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-64 – Eligibility – Freshman academic requirements – Core-curriculum requirements – Nontraditional courses. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-65 – Eligibility – Transfer regulations – Four-year college transfers – One-time transfer exception – Women's volleyball. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-66 – Eligibility – Transfer regulations – Four-year college transfers – Competition or receipt of athletically related financial aid in year of transfer – Tennis. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-67 – Financial Aid – Terms and conditions of awarding institutional financial aid – One-year period – De minimis violation. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-68 – Financial aid – Midyear replacement – Graduation during previous year – Women's volleyball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-69 – Financial aid – Maximum institutional grant-in-aid limitations by sport – Equivalency computations – Exceptions – Academic honor awards – Transfer students. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-70 – Financial aid – Maximum institutional grant-in-aid limitations by sport – Women's sand volleyball. Status: Final consideration.
• 2009-71 – Awards, benefits and expenses for enrolled student-athletes – Housing and meals – Permissible preseason practice expenses – De minimis violation. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-72 – Awards, benefits and expenses – Expenses for student-athlete's relatives – Reasonable refreshments. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-73 – Awards, benefits and expenses – Expenses provided by the institution for practice and competition – Nonpermissible – Lodging in conjunction with a regular-season home contest. Status: Withdrawn.
• 2009-74 – Awards, benefits and expenses – Benefits, gifts and services – Occasional meals – Location of meal provided by representative of athletics interests. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-75-A – Playing and practice seasons and recruiting – Mandatory medical examination – Sickle cell solubility test. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-75-B – Playing and practice seasons and recruiting – Mandatory medical examination – Sickle cell solubility test – Documented results of prior test. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-75-B-1 – Playing and practice seasons and recruiting – Mandatory medical examination – Sickle cell solubility test – Option to decline and sign written release – Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-76 – Playing and practice seasons – Time limits for athletically related activities – Additional restrictions – Countable athletically related activities between midnight and 5 a.m. Status: Adopted.
•  2009-77 – Playing and practice seasons – Women's basketball – Preseason practice – On-court practice – 30 days of countable activities within 40 days prior to first contest. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-78 – Playing and practice seasons – Women's basketball – Number of contests – maximum limitations. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-79-A – Playing and practice seasons – Nonchampionship segment – Travel restrictions – Cross country, field hockey, soccer, softball and women's volleyball. Status: Rendered moot.
• 2009-79-B - Playing and practice seasons – Nonchampionship segment – Travel restrictions – Cross country, field hockey, soccer, softball and women's volleyball – Exception – 400-mile radius. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-79-C – Playing and practice seasons – Nonchampionship segment – Travel restrictions – Cross country, field hockey, soccer, softball and women's volleyball – Hawaii exception. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-79-D – Playing and practice seasons – Nonchampionship segment – Travel restrictions – Cross country, field hockey, soccer, softball and women's volleyball and men's water polo. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-80 – Playing and practice seasons – Bowl subdivision football – First contest – 14 weeks prior to December 1. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-81- Playing and practice seasons – Football – Out-of-season athletically related activities – Summer conditioning period. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-82 – Playing and practice seasons – Limit on number of student-athletes on an outside team – Vacation period exception and outside team tours – Women's rowing. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-83 – Playing and practice seasons and division membership – Regulations for playing season and minimum contest requirements for sport sponsorship – Women's sand volleyball. Status: Final consideration.
• 2009-84 – Playing and practice seasons – Preseason practice – Women's soccer. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-85 – Playing and practice seasons – Softball – Preseason practice and first contest date – Nonchampionship segment. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-86 – Athletics certification – Mandatory self-study and external peer review – Academic integrity – Academic standards – Retention. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-87 – Administrative regulations – Foreign tours and competition – No institutional or conference foreign tours. Status: Withdrawn.
• 2009-88 – Administrative regulations – Foreign tours and competition – Eligibility of student-athletes – Incoming-student participation – Basketball. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-89 – Amateurism – Validity of amateur status – Eligibility for practice or competition – Temporary certification – Recruited student-athlete – 45-day period. Status: Adopted.
•  2009-90 – Committees – Common committees – Committees with only championships administration responsibilities – Women's ice hockey committee composition. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-91 – Committees – Common committees – Committees with governance administration responsibilities – International student records committee – Composition. Status: Adopted.
•  2009-92 – Committees – Division I cabinets and committees – Committees with championships administration and sports issues responsibilities – men's ice hockey committee composition. Status: Adopted.
•  2009-93 – Executive regulations – Administration of NCAA championships – Failure to adhere to policies and procedures – Maximum financial penalty. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-94 – Administrative regulations – Basketball event certification – Women's basketball – Geographic requirement. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-95 – Recruiting – Sports camps and clinics – Definition of recruited prospective student-athlete – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-96 – Eligibility – Two-year college transfers – Physical education activity courses – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-97 – Financial aid – Counters – Aid after departure of head coach – Noncounter – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-98 – Playing and practice seasons – Missed class-time policies – Departure/return restrictions – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-98 – Playing and practice seasons – Preseason practice model – Men's basketball. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-99 – Personnel and recruiting – Employment of high school, preparatory school or two-year college coaches or other individuals associated with prospective student-athletes – Noncoaching staff member – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted.
• 2009-100 – Recruiting – Tryouts – Nonscholastic practice, contest or event – Men's basketball. Status: Final consideration.
• 2009-101 – Recruiting – Sports camps and clinics – Recruiting during institution's camps and clinics – Exception – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-101-1 – Recruiting – Sports camps and clinics – Recruiting conversations during institution's camps and clinics – Exception – Men's basketball. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.
• 2009-102 – Recruiting – Sports camps and clinics – Employment at institution's camps and clinics – Enrolled students and institutional staff members only – Men's basketball. Status: Defeated.
• 2009-103 – Administrative regulations – Postseason bowl licensing – Contest status – Deserving team. Status: Adopted, 60-day override period.