No. 40 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Basketball -- First Contest Date

Intent: In basketball, to establish the first permissible contest date as four weeks following October 15.

Source: State University of New York Athletic Conference.

No. 41 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Playing Seasons Regulations

Intent: To revise the playing and practice seasons regulations, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 41-1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Playing Seasons Regulations

Intent: To amend 2003 NCAA Convention Proposal 41, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004

No. 42 (No. 2-51) Executive Regulations -- Selection of Teams for Championships Participation -- Automatic Qualification

Intent: To revise automatic qualification policies in team sports, as specified.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Championships Committee)].

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 43 (No. 2-52) Executive Regulations -- Selection of Teams and Individuals for Championships

Intent: To require that in all sports at least 50 percent of the championship field originally designated for the respective sport shall be reserved for at-large berths, as specified.

Source: University Athletic Association.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 44 (No. 2-38) Amateurism -- Professional Team -- Definition

Intent: To specify that a professional team is an organized team that provides any of its players more than actual and necessary expenses, as specified, or declares itself to be a professional team.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Amateurism Task Force)].

No. 45 (No. 2-39) Recruiting -- Definition of Contact

Intent: To define a recruiting "contact" as specified.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Interpretations and Legislation Committee)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 46 (No. 2-40) Recruiting -- Eligibility Ramifications -- Restitution for Improper Benefits

Intent: To specify circumstances in which an institution does not have to declare ineligible and seek restoration on behalf of a prospective student-athlete who received an improper benefit while a prospect, provided the individual repays the value of the benefit.

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

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 47 (No. 2-41) Recruiting -- De Minimis Violations

Intent: To specify that violations of Bylaws 13.7.4 (accommodations on official visits), 13.7.5.5.2 (multiple hosts), 13.11.6 (photograph of prospect), and 13.14.1 (coach involvement) are de minimus in nature.

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

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 48 (No. 2-42) Eligibility -- Season of Competition -- Waiver

Intent: To establish a season-of-competition waiver that may be granted due to extenuating circumstances for student-athletes who competed while eligible in a limited amount of competition.

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

Effective date: August 1, 2003 (for competition occurring on or after August 1, 2003).

No. 49 (No. 2-44) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Noncollegiate, Amateur Competition -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to permit a student-athlete to compete in noncollegiate, amateur basketball competition outside the institution's intercollegiate basketball season.

Source: State University of New York Athletic Conference.

No. 50 (No. 2-45) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Number of Contests -- Ice Hockey

Intent: In women's ice hockey, to decrease the maximum number of contests from 34 to 25.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)].

No. 51 (No. 2-46) Playing and Practice Seasons -- Tennis -- Preseason Practice

Intent: In tennis, to provide institutions that conduct the traditional segment in the fall with 16 practice opportunities before the first contest or September 1, whichever is later.

Source: Pennsylvania Athletic Conference.

No. 52 (No. 2-47) Playing and
Practice Seasons -- Indoor and Outdoor
Track and Field --
Length of Playing Season

Intent: To specify that an institution that sponsors indoor or outdoor track and field (but not both) is limited to a playing and practice season of 21 weeks.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)].

No. 53 (No. 2-49) National Collegiate Championships --
Women's Bowling

Intent: To establish a National Collegiate Championship in women's bowling, effective 2003-04.

Source: NCAA Division III Management Council (Championships Committee).

No. 54 (No. 2-50) Membership --
|Emerging Sports --
Rugby

Intent: To add rugby as an emerging sport for women.

Source: NCAA Division III Presidents Council [Management Council (Committee on Women's Athletics)].

Effective date: Immediately.

All legislative proposals approved by the membership will be effective August 1, 2003, unless otherwise noted.