Division II delegates to the 2002 NCAA Convention will consider a total of 40 proposals -- 39 amendments and one amendment-to-amendment. All proposals will be considered January 14 during the Division II general business session.

Proposal Nos. 1-5 make up the consent package, while Proposal Nos. 6-29 make up the Presidents Council grouping. Proposal Nos. 19-27 make up the Bylaw 17 deregulation package.

No. 1 Eligibility -- Joint College/High-School Program

Intent: To modify requirements related to joint high-school/college programs that would begin a student-athlete's eligibility under the 10-semester/15-quarter rule, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Administrative Review Subcommittee)].

No. 2 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Foreign Tour

Intent: To permit a student-athlete who qualified for a hardship waiver during the previous academic year to engage in competition on an institution's foreign tour during the summer vacation period at the conclusion of that academic year without using a season of competition.

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

Independent Institutions

Intent: To require that satisfactory-progress waivers submitted by independent institutions be administered by the NCAA Division II Academic Requirements Committee.

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

Requirement

Intent: To permit a student-athlete to transfer and immediately be eligible when the student-athlete's institution loses accreditation.

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

World University Games

Intent: To include the World University Games as an exception to the outside-competition legislation.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Olympic Sports Liaison Committee)].

Requirements

Intent: To specify sports-sponsorship requirements necessary for multi-sport voting conference membership.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

No. 6-1 Membership --

Voting Conference Requirements

Intent: To allow voting conferences to satisfy sports-sponsorship requirements by sponsoring five sports for men and five sports for women or four sports for men and six sports for women.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Eligibility

Intent: To establish a provisional membership category for prospective Division II voting conference members. [Note: Appropriate editorial revisions will be made in NCAA Constitution 3.3 to reflect the adoption of this legislation.]

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Exploratory Period

Intent: To require institutions that desire to join Division II to complete an "exploratory period" prior to submitting a provisional membership application.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Rules -- Compliance Progression

Intent: To require provisional member institutions to satisfy specified membership requirements in years one and two of the four-year provisional membership period.

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

on Provisional Members

Intent: To provide the Management Council with the authority to establish an annual limit on the number of institutions that will be permitted to begin the four-year provisional membership period.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Eligibility

Intent: To establish requirements that provisional member applicants must satisfy for an application to be considered.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Application Fee

Intent: To indicate that the provisional membership application fee will be determined by the Management Council as specified.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

From Divisions I or III

Intent: To specify that an institution declaring an intent to reclassify to Division II from Divisions I or III must satisfy Division II sports-sponsorship requirements at the time of declaration.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Philosophy Statement

Intent: To revise the Division II philosophy statement as specified.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Philosophy Statement

Intent: To revise the Division II philosophy statement as specified.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

*No. 16 Membership Requirements -- Minimum Financial Aid Requirement

Intent: To establish a minimum financial aid requirement, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Minimum Sports Sponsorship

Intent: To increase the minimum sports-sponsorship requirement from four men's and four women's sports to five sports for each gender, or four men's and six women's sports; to allow sports classified in Division I to count toward the minimum requirement and to allow institutions sponsoring both indoor and outdoor track to receive "credit" for both sports and to establish separate minimum participants requirements for indoor track and outdoor track.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

Scheduling Requirements

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that a Division II institution must schedule and play more than 50 percent of its contests in football and men's and women's basketball in an academic year against Divisions I and II institutions.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Membership Review Project Team)].

*No. 19 (Dereg. No. 1) Playing and Practice

Seasons -- Individual Skill Instruction

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that individual skill instruction be requested by the student-athlete.

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

Related Activities

Intent: To revise the definition of a countable athletically related activities as specified.

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

Time Limitations

Intent: To limit participation by multiple-sport student-athletes to 20 hours per week of countable athletically related activities.

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

Seasons -- Competition Day

Time Limitations

Intent: To specify that for purposes of counting time limits for athletically related activities, scrimmages shall count as the actual duration of the activity.

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

Intrasquad Scrimmage

Intent: To permit off-campus intrasquad scrimmages during the preseason practice period.

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

Seasons -- Missed Class Time

Intent: To prohibit student-athletes from missing class time for competition conducted in the nonchampionship segment in team sports.

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

Annual Exemptions

Intent: To eliminate the lists of annual exemptions and once-in-four-year exemptions in each section of Bylaw 17 (i.e., each sport) and create two all-inclusive lists that will apply to all sports.

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

Out-of-Season Activities

Intent: To redefine playing and practice season regulations for fall and spring sports except outdoor track and field and other selected sports. [Note: This proposal does not apply to emerging sorts for women and other specified sports.]

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

Seasons -- Football Spring Practice

Intent: To eliminate the prohibition against Sunday practice during spring football.

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

Courses

Intent: To allow use of correspondence, extension and distance learning courses to meet satisfactory-progress requirements, under specified conditions.

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

Partial Qualifiers

Intent: To permit two-year college transfer student-athletes who were partial qualifiers to practice when transfer requirements for competition are not satisfied.

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

Photograph Sales

Intent: To permit member institutions and conferences to contract with photographers to produce and sell photographs and videos to the general public.

Source: University of Alabama, Huntsville; Arkansas Tech University; University of Arkansas, Monticello; University of Central Arkansas; Christian Brothers University; Delta State University; Harding University; Henderson State University; Lincoln Memorial University; Mississippi University for Women; University of Montevallo; University of North Alabama; Ouachita Baptist University; Southern Arkansas University; Valdosta State University; University of West Alabama; University of West Florida; and State University of West Georgia.

Advertisements

Intent: To permit institutions to place general institutional, summer-camp and summer-school advertisements in recruiting publications and high-school and two-year college game programs.

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

No. 32 Recruiting --

Institutional Control

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that funds expended for recruiting purposes must be deposited with the institution.

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

Football Recruiting Calendar

Intent: To revise the football recruiting calendar by changing the spring evaluation period to April 15 through May 31 and to specify that four weeks of evaluation is selected at the discretion of the institution.

Source: All members of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and all members of the Gulf South Conference.

Seasons of Competition

Intent: To permit student-athletes, in the sports of women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, and women's field hockey, to compete against outside competition in the nonchampionship segment without using a season of competition.

Source: All members of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and all members of the North Central Conference.

No. 35 Eligibility/

Hardship Waiver

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete's eligibility for a medical hardship should be determined by the number of scheduled contests or dates of competition rather than the number of completed contests or dates of competition.

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

Limitations -- Football

Intent: In the sport of football, to permit student-athletes to view a maximum of two hours of game film per week as part of the permissible eight hours of required weight-training and conditioning activities that may occur during the academic year outside of the playing season.

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

Start Date -- Golf

Intent: To specify that an institution that is a member of a conference that conducts its only conference championship or plays the majority of its conference matches in golf during the fall may commence practice August 24 or the first day of classes, whichever is earlier.

Source: All members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Competition -- Golf

Intent: To specify that an institution that is a member of a conference that conducts its only conference championship, or plays the majority of its conference matches in golf during the fall may conduct its first contest or practice match with outside competition September 1 or the preceding Friday of September 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

Source: All members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Vacancies

Intent: To increase the number of nominations required to be submitted by Division II conferences from two to four for vacancies on the national Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Source: NCAA Division II Presidents Council [Management Council (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee)].