Academic Performance Programs

No. 03-112 Academic Performance Program

Intent: To establish a program, with appropriate measurements of academic performance, that rewards those institutions and teams that demonstrate commitment toward the academic progress, retention and graduation of student-athletes and penalizes those that fail to demonstrate such commitment.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval with amendment/comment period.

No. 03-112-1 Academic Performance Program

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 03-112 to specify that the Academic Performance Program shall apply to currently enrolled student-athletes receiving institutional financial aid based in any degree on athletics ability or for those teams or institutions that do not offer athletics financial aid, recruited student-athletes who, on or after the varsity team's first date of competition for the championship segment are listed on the varsity team's roster, or who have exhausted eligibility and returned to the institution as a fifth year student to complete a baccalaureate degree.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Adopted (see Proposal No. 03-112).

No. 03-113 Academic Performance
Program -- Penalties

Intent: To establish a set of penalties that may apply to an institution or team(s) that fails to satisfy the standards of the academic performance program.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Administrative Regulations

No. 02-72 Administrative Regulations -- Graduation Rate Disclosure -- NCAA Graduation Success Rate

Intent: To specify that an institution shall not be eligible to enter a team or an individual competitor in an NCAA championship unless the institution has completed the NCAA Graduation Success Rate report by the deadline established by the Board of Directors.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-27 Administrative Regulations -- Certification of Compliance

Intent: To require all athletics department staff members, including clerical personnel, to sign the certification of compliance form.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Amateurism

No. 03-72 Amateurism -- Expenses for
Student-Athlete's Friends and Relatives -- Postseason Bowl Games

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit a student-athlete to designate individuals other than his or her parents or legal guardians to receive permissible entertainment expenses related to the student-athlete's participation in the postseason bowl game.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-73 Amateurism -- Financial Donations from Outside Organizations -- Professional Sports Organizations

Intent: In sports other that football and men's basketball, to permit an institution's marketing department to enter into a reciprocal contractual relationship with a professional sports organization for the specific purpose of marketing and promoting an institutionally sponsored sport.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-103 Amateurism -- Definitions and Applications -- First Opportunity to Enroll

Intent: To establish a definition of first opportunity to enroll for use in student-athlete reinstatement cases involving participation on professional teams.

Council/Board action: Withdrawn by sponsor.

Athletics Certification

No. 03-69 Athletics Certification

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that each Division I member institution, at least once every 10 years, complete an institutional self-study, verified and evaluated through external peer review.

Council/Board action: Withdrawn by sponsor.

Championships

No. 01-05 NCAA Championships --
Site Selection

Intent: To establish criteria for site selection for an NCAA championship that indicates the sports committees may not award a site solely on the basis of the size of the host institution's financial bid guarantee; further, to specify that higher-seeded teams must be accorded priority in the site-selection process.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-13 Championships --
Automatic Qualification

Intent: To eliminate the automatic-qualification period for an institution reclassifying to NCAA Division I status provided the institution joins an established conference that satisfies the continuity-of-membership requirements.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-80 Automatic Qualification -- Men's Basketball Grace Period

Intent: In men's basketball, to increase from one to two years the grace period during which a conference may continue to qualify for automatic qualification to the Division I Men's Basketball Championship when it fails to satisfy either the seven-member or continuity-of-membership requirement.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Coaching Limitations/Personnel

No. 01-105 Personnel -- Restricted Coach

Intent: To remove all references to restricted coach and to eliminate the distinction between restricted coaches and other full-time coaches.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

No. 03-64 Personnel -- Volunteer Coach -- Track and Field -- Pole Vault

Intent: In track and field, to permit an institution to employ one additional volunteer coach for the discipline of pole vault.

Council/Board action: Adopted as emergency legislation and is effective August 1, 2004.

No. 03-82 Personnel --
Undergraduate Student Coach

Intent: To permit an individual to serve as a student-coach, provided he or she is within his or her five-year eligibility period, has exhausted his or her eligibility in the sport or has become injured to the point that he or she is unable to practice or compete ever again and is enrolled in either an undergraduate or graduate program.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

No. 03-84 Personnel -- Volunteer Coach -- Meals During Official Visit

Intent: In sports other than football and basketball, to permit an institution to provide a volunteer coach meals during a prospective student-athlete's official visit.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-100 Personnel -- Skiing --
Recruiting Off Campus

Intent: In skiing, to increase from one to two the number of coaches who may recruit off campus at any one time.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Committees

No. 03-18 Committees -- Association-Wide Committees -- Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct -- Reporting to Management Council

Intent: To permit the Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct to be appointed by and report directly to the NCAA Division I Management Council.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-50 Committees -- Committee on Women's Athletics -- Composition

Intent: To require that one of the Committee on Women's Athletics' six Division I members also be a member of the Division I Management Council.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-70 Committees -- Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports -- Composition

Intent: To add one member to the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports; further, to specify that the additional member be a strength and conditioning professional.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-75 Committees -- Football Issues Committee -- Composition

Intent: To specify that the Division I Football Issues Committee shall be composed of 24 members; further, to specify that each Division I-A and Division I-AA conference shall have one representative on the committee, two student-athletes shall serve on the committee, and ex-officio members shall be eliminated.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Eligibility

No. 02-5 Eligibility --
Two-Year College Transfer

Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student-athlete who transfers to the certifying institution during an academic year to compete during the nonchampionship segment of the playing season, even if the student-athlete has competed at the two-year college during the same academic year.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-3 Eligibility -- Hardship Waiver

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may qualify for a hardship waiver even if the injury or illness occurs after the completion of the first half of the playing season that ends with the NCAA championship.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 03-4 Eligibility -- Satisfactory
Progress -- Fulfillment of Degree Requirements and Minimum Grade-Point Average

Intent: To specify that a student who has used seasons of competition before initial full-time collegiate enrollment and attendance shall be required to meet the minimum percentage-of-degree and grade-point average requirements set forth in Bylaw 14, as specified.

Council/Board action: Withdrawn by sponsor.

No. 03-5 Eligibility -- Satisfactory
Progress -- Minimum Grade-Point Average -- Exception -- National Service Academies

Intent: To specify that the national service academies are exempt from the minimum grade-point average requirements.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Gave initial approval at April 2003 meeting and requested that the proposal be circulated after the January 2004 meeting.

Swimming and Diving

Intent: In tennis and swimming and diving, to specify that a student-athlete who does not enroll in college within one year after the graduation date of the student-athlete's class (as determined by the first year of high-school enrollment or the international equivalent) shall fulfill an academic year in residence upon initial collegiate enrollment. Further, to specify that the student-athlete also loses a season of competition for each year in which the student-athlete has participated in organized tennis or swimming and diving competition during each year after the expected date of high-school graduation (or the international equivalent) and before collegiate enrollment.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval as amended/comment period.

Swimming and Diving

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 03-14 to specify that a student-athlete who is not subject to the provisions of Bylaw 14.2.3.2 and enrolls in college (that is, within a year of the graduation date of the student's high-school class), but matriculates at the certifying institution after participating in organized tennis competition after his or her 20th birthday, is subject to a residence requirement and uses a season of eligibility for each year of organized competition after his or her 20th birthday.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Adopted (see Proposal No. 03-14).

No. 03-38 Eligibility -- Final Semester/
Quarter -- Quarter Exception

Intent: To permit a student-athlete from a quarter institution who graduates after the winter quarter the opportunity to compete in an NCAA championship or a National Invitational Tournament that occurs during the same academic year after the completion of the winter quarter.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-39 Eligibility -- Two-Year College Transfers -- Competition in Year of Transfer

Intent: To permit a two-year college transfer student-athlete who has met the two-year transfer eligibility requirements to participate in the championship segment at the certifying institution, provided the student-athlete has not participated in the same championship segment while enrolled at the two-year college during the same academic year.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-40 Eligibility -- Penalty for Ineligible Participation -- NCAA Championships

Intent: To eliminate Bylaw 14.11.4.2 related to penalties for ineligible participation in NCAA championships.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

No. 03-59 Eligibility -- Core-Curriculum
Time Limitation

Intent: To permit a student to earn a maximum of one core-course unit in the summer immediately after high-school graduation and before initial, full-time collegiate enrollment.

Effective date: August 1, 2008, for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2008.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-96 Eligibility -- Progress Toward Degree -- Six Credit Hours -- Three Calendar-Day Period

Intent: To establish a three calendar-day period during which institutions must certify that student-athletes have satisfactorily completed six semester or quarter hours of academic credit the preceding academic term of full-time enrollment at any collegiate institution.

Council/Board action: Referred to the Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet.

Toward Degree -- Missed-Term Exception

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may use the missed-term exception even if the student-athlete is not eligible to enroll at the certifying institution during that term(s).

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Ethical Conduct

No. 03-85 Ethical Conduct -- Unethical Conduct

Intent: To permit an institution to appeal immediately the minimum reinstatement conditions applied to a student-athlete who engages in gambling activities for the first time and is subject to the sanctions set forth in Bylaw 10.3.1-(b).

Council/Board action: Defeated.

Executive Regulations

Men's Basketball

Intent: In sports other than basketball, to permit a single-sport member conference to retain or qualify for automatic qualification to the applicable NCAA championship, provided the conference is composed of at least six members that have conducted conference competition together the preceding two years in the sport in question and compete in the sport in question at the Division I level.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Expenses/Awards/Benefits

Medical Expenses

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a student-athlete enrolled in the institution's summer term with necessary surgical expenses resulting from an injury sustained during voluntary summer physical activities on the institution's campus; further, to permit an institution to provide medication and physical therapy to a student-athlete enrolled in the institution's summer term.

Effective date: May 1, 2004 (summer 2004).

Council/Board action: Agreed to consolidate the proposal with Proposal No. 03-49 to comprise Proposal No. 03-139; gave initial approval and circulated the proposal for comment.

Meals Incidental to Participation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide meals incidental to participation in conjunction with a home athletics contest.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Gave initial approval at April 2003 meeting and requested that the proposal be circulated after the January 2004 meeting.

Miscellaneous Benefits

Intent: To permit an institution to provide an additional meal to a student-athlete during each day of any vacation period that occurs within the academic year, provided the student-athlete is required to remain on campus for practice or competition.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-49 Permissible Benefits --
Medical Expenses

Intent: To permit an institution to pay for a student-athlete's medical expenses resulting from any injury or illness, provided such expenses are necessary for the student-athlete to return to competition.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Agreed to consolidate the proposal with Proposal No. 03-49 to comprise Proposal No. 03-139; gave initial approval and circulated the proposal for comment.

No. 03-81 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition -- Other Competition

Intent: To permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses related to participation in Olympic, Pan American, World Championships, World Cup and World University Games competition during an academic year in which a student-athlete is eligible to represent the institution in athletics competition (or in the following summer).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-106 Awards and Benefits --
Maximum Value of Awards

Intent: To increase the awards limitations as specified.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective August 1, 2004.

Financial Aid

No. 02-81 Financial Aid --
Countable Aid -- Team Limits

Intent: To specify that financial aid countable toward an institution's team limits includes only institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion (for a recruited student-athlete) and educational expenses awarded by the USOC or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country).

Council/Board action: Tabled.

No. 02-82 Financial Aid -- Counters

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete becomes a counter only when he or she receives institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion (for a recruited student-athlete only) or educational expenses awarded by the USOC or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country).

Council/Board action: Tabled.

No. 02-83-A Financial Aid -- Maximum Limit on Financial Aid -- Individual Limit

Intent: To establish a student-athlete's individual maximum financial aid limit as the cost of attendance; further, to specify that a student-athlete may receive institutional financial aid based on athletics ability, outside financial aid for which athletics participation is a major criterion and educational expenses awarded by the USOC or a U.S. national governing body (or, for international student-athletes, expenses awarded by the equivalent organization of a foreign country) up to the value of a full grant-in-aid. Finally, to specify that a student-athlete may receive any other financial aid unrelated to athletics ability up to cost of attendance; or the value of a full grant-in-aid plus a federal Pell Grant, whichever is greater.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 02-83-B Financial Aid -- Maximum Limit on Financial Aid -- Individual Limit

Intent: To establish a student-athlete's individual maximum financial aid limit as the cost of attendance.

Council/Board action: Tabled.

No. 03-7 Financial Aid -- Initial Counters -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that beginning with the 2003-04 academic year, an institution shall qualify for an additional initial counter to be used not more than once within a two-year period, if a student-athlete's institutional aid is not renewed for legitimate reasons.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 03-8 Financial Aid -- Tuition and Course-Related Fees to Attend Another Institution

Intent: To permit an institution to provide tuition and course-related fees to a student-athlete to attend another institution and enroll in courses required by the student-athlete's specific degree program, but not offered by the certifying institution.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

Aid -- Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment

Intent: To permit an institution to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete in any sport to attend the institution's summer term before the student's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution, as specified.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

Aid -- Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 03-15, to permit an institution, in sports other than basketball, to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete to attend the institution's summer term before the student's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution, provided the incoming student-athlete is determined an academically at-risk student.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 03-23 Financial Aid -- Countable
Financial Aid -- Team Limits

Intent: To permit a student-athlete who participates in an equivalency sport to receive institutional academic scholarships and need-based institutional aid under specified conditions without including such aid in an institution's equivalency computation in the applicable sport; further, to specify that all institutional financial aid (including aid that is exempted from an equivalency computation) awarded to a counter may be used to meet the minimum financial aid requirements for Division I membership.

Council/Board action: Tabled.

No. 03-24 Financial Aid -- Terms and
Conditions -- Period of Award

Intent: To prohibit an institution from providing financial aid awards to student-athletes on a term-by-term basis, except for awards provided to a midyear enrollee.

Council/Board action: Referred to the Division I Academics/ Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet.

No. 03-65 Financial Aid -- Summer Term
Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment -- Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete to attend the institution's summer term before the prospective student-athlete's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 03-76 Financial Aid -- Men's Basketball Limitations -- Initial Counters

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate the limit on the number of initial counters.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-114 Financial Aid -- Contemporaneous Penalty for Poor Academic Performance

Intent: To prohibit an institution or team that is academically subject to the penalties based on the academic performance rate from re-awarding the athletics aid of a student-athlete who fails to meet NCAA, conference and/or institutional academic eligibility requirements and withdraws from the institution, to an incoming prospective (that is, high-school, two-year or four-year) student-athlete during a subsequent academic year, as specified.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Membership Legislative Process

Certification of Insurance Coverage

Intent: To require as a condition and obligation of NCAA membership that an institution certify on an annual basis insurance coverage for athletically related injuries sustained by specified participants in covered events.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Division I-A Conference -- Exception

Intent: To specify that a Division I-A conference may include in its required eight members an institution that counts as one of its six men's sports and one of its eight women's sports a sport in which it participates through a Division I multi- or single-sport conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-79 Legislative Process -- Emergency/Noncontroversial Legislation

Intent: To define the terms emergency and noncontroversial as they apply to proposed NCAA legislation.

Council/Board action: Withdrawn by sponsor.

No. 03-91 Membership -- Division I-A Membership Requirements -- Restricted Membership -- Three-Year Consecutive Period

Intent: To specify that an institution that fails to satisfy any Division I-A membership requirement for three consecutive years will be placed in restricted membership status in football for one year and that failure to meet Division I-A membership requirements during the restricted year will result in the institution losing its Division I-A classification.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

Playing and Practice Seasons

Activities -- Multisport Participant

Intent: To specify that a multisport student-athlete's participation in countable athletically related activities shall not exceed a total of 20 hours per week and four hours per day.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Activities -- Outside the Playing Season

Intent: To specify that outside of the playing season during the academic year, a student-athlete's participation in countable athletically related activities is prohibited two days per week; further, to permit an institution to require a student-athlete participate in individual skill instruction while limiting such instruction to two hours within the limit of eight hours of athletically related activities per week.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Foreign Tours and Competition

Intent: To eliminate institutional foreign tours in all sports.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Approved an amendment to permit an institution's women's rowing team to participate in the Henley Women's Regatta. Also approved an amendment to permit institutions to participate in a foreign tour once every four years only when two or more institutions compete as a combined team. Gave initial approval to the proposal as amended and circulated the proposal for comment.

No. 03-67-1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Foreign Tours and Competition

Intent: To amend Proposal No. 2003-67 to permit institutional foreign tours in all sports, provided the tour does not occur during the period beginning 30 days before the first permissible practice date in the applicable sport until the first scheduled contest in the applicable sport.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: After defeating a proposal to approve Proposal No. 03-67 as amended by Proposal No. 03-67-1, the Council gave initial approval to No. 03-67-1 as a separate proposal and circulated the proposal for comment.

No. 03-74 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Required Day Off -- Travel Day

Intent: To specify that an institution may not consider a travel day (defined as 6 a.m. to midnight in the time zone of the certifying institution) related to athletics participation as a day off; further, to specify that if an unexpected transportation delay beyond the control of the institution causes a student-athlete or team to return to campus after 6 a.m., that day may be designated as the required day off provided the student-athlete does not participate in any other countable athletically related activities during that day; finally, to permit a member conference or, in the case of an independent institution, the Division I Administrative Review Subcommittee, to waive the application of the travel day legislation.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Approved an amendment to exclude travel to and from Alaska and Hawaii from the application of the legislation; gave initial approval to the proposal as amended and circulated the proposal for comment.

Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to specify that a conference championship game between division champions of a member conference of 10 or more institutions that is divided into two divisions (of five or more institutions each) may be exempted from the maximum number of contests.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

Men's Basketball -- Annual Exemptions

Intent: In men's basketball, to prohibit an institution from playing exhibition contests against noncollegiate teams (for example, foreign team, USA Basketball Club team).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-101 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Maximum Dates of Competition -- Skiing

Intent: In skiing, to count institutional dates of competition separately for Nordic and Alpine events, while maintaining the limit on the total dates of competition in which each individual student-athlete may enter.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that first-time participants (including transfers) at national service academies who have completed basic military training are not required to complete the five-day acclimatization period at the beginning of preseason practice.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-108 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Conditioning Activities -- National Service Academies -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that national service academies shall designate nine weeks of student-athlete discretionary time between January 1 and the start of the preseason practice period.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that the restriction on the number of student-athletes who may engage in practice activities before the institution's first day of classes or first contest, whichever occurs first, shall not apply to national service academies.

Effective date: Immediately

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Divisions I-A and I-AA Football

Intent: In football, to permit an institution, during the five-day acclimatization period, the option of conducting one three-hour on-field practice session per day or, in the alternative, one one-hour testing session (for example, speed, conditioning or agility tests) and one two-hour on-field practice session per day; further, to specify that an institution must provide student-athletes with at least three hours of recovery time between the testing and on-field practice session and protective equipment (for example, helmets, shoulder pads) shall not be worn during such sessions.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Participation -- Gymnastics

Intent: In gymnastics, to exempt the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships from the gymnastics playing and practice season regulations.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

and Conditioning Coach

Intent: To permit a countable coach that is a certified strength and conditioning coach to conduct conditioning workouts during an institution's vacation period.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Division I-A members defeated the proposal; Division I-AA members gave initial approval and circulated the proposal for comment for Division I-AA football only.

Recruiting

No. 02-44 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls -- Women's Basketball

Intent: To reduce from four to three the number of permissible telephone calls an institution may make to a women's basketball prospect during the period of June 21 through July 31.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 02-44-1 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls -- Women's Basketball -- Effective Date

Intent: To amend the effective date of Proposal No. 02-44 from August 1, 2003, to immediately.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 03-22 Recruiting -- Banned-Drug List and Nutritional Supplements

Intent: To require an institution to provide the list of NCAA banned drugs and information about the risks of nutritional supplements to all incoming prospective student-athletes at the earliest practical time but in no case later than July 1 before the prospect's initial full-time enrollment; further, for a prospect whose recruitment is initiated after July 1, the institution must send the banned-drug list at the earliest opportunity.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

To Division III Institutions

Intent: To exclude official visits to Division III institutions from a prospective student-athlete's five-expense paid visit limitation.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective August 1, 2004.

No. 03-29 Recruiting -- Official Visits --
Waiver of Institutional Limitation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide additional official visits (up to 25 percent of the limitation) when a new coach is hired and the previous coaching staff used 75 percent or more of the official visits allotted for that academic year in the applicable sport.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-31 Recruiting -- Publicity -- Announcement of Signing

Intent: To permit an institution, after a prospect signing a National Letter of Intent or after the prospect's signed acceptance of the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, to release information related to a prospect's signing to any media outlet with no limitations on the number of occasions that such information may be released; further, to prohibit an institution from purchasing or receiving commercial advertising (for example, print, media, billboard) that identifies the prospective student-athlete by name or picture.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to send to prospects, prospects' coaches and any other individual responsible for teaching or directing an activity in which a prospect is involved only general correspondence, questionnaires, camp brochures, institutionally prepared (nonathletics) publications available to all students, NCAA educational materials and business cards; further, to permit all other recruiting materials to be posted on the institution's Web site; however such items may not be printed from the Web and provided to prospects via mail or during visits.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Contacts and Evaluations

Intent: To permit an institution, in all sports, to engage in the following recruiting activities: (1) one in-person, off-campus contact with a prospective student-athlete during April of the prospect's junior year that must occur on the high-school campus (subject to recruiting-calendar restrictions); and (2) one telephone call during March of the prospect's junior year in high school with subsequent telephone calls subject to current sports-specific limitations; further, in Divisions I-A and I-AA football, to permit all institutional staff members to make telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete [or the prospect's parent(s) or legal guardian(s)] subject to current weekly limitations.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Approved separate amendments in Division I-A and I-AA to exclude football from the application of the legislation; gave initial approval to the proposal as amended and circulated the proposal for comment.

Recruiting Communication

Intent: To specify that all electronically transmitted direct human interaction voice exchange shall be considered telephone calls and that all electronically transmitted correspondence shall be considered general correspondence.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-35 Recruiting -- Official Visits --
Written Notice

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that an institution must provide a prospective student-athlete written notice of the five-visit limitation.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective August 1, 2004.

Materials -- Video/Audio Materials

Intent: To permit an institution to produce nonpersonalized recruiting video/audio presentations and also to make such presentations available via the institution's Web site and send them electronically to prospects; further, to permit an institution to produce recruiting presentations that include personalized computer-generated presentations but precludes the appearance of any video/audio clips or images of a prospect within the presentation.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Life-Threatening Injury or Illness

Intent: To permit an institution to provide a prospective student-athlete with a donation to a charity on behalf of a prospective student-athlete or other reasonable tokens of support for a prospective student-athlete when a prospect's immediate family member dies or suffers a life-threatening injury or illness, provided the prospect has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) with the institution, or for those institutions that do not subscribe to the NLI program, a written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective August 1, 2004.

Other Written Commitment

Intent: To permit an institution to make unlimited calls to a prospect who is not eligible to sign a National Letter of Intent (for example, four-year college transfer) provided the prospect has signed an institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-61 Recruiting -- Evaluations and Telephone Calls -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to amend the recruiting regulations as follows: (1) in men's basketball, to establish restrictions during the April contact period that would preclude evaluations at sites other than the prospect's educational institution; (2) in men's and women's basketball, to modify the current July evaluation period to establish a six-day dead period between two 10-day evaluation periods from July 6-15 and July 22-31; and (3) in men's and women's basketball, to permit coaches to make telephone calls to a prospect's high-school coach (or high-school administrator) during the July evaluation period when the high-school coach or administrator is not in attendance at the prospect's certified event.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-62 Recruiting -- Evaluations and Telephone Calls -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to amend the recruiting regulations as follows: (1) in men's basketball, to establish restrictions during the April contact period that would preclude evaluations at sites other than the prospect's educational institution; (2) in men's and women's basketball, to modify the current July evaluation period to establish a six-day dead period between two 10-day evaluation periods from July 8-17 and July 24 through August 2; and (3) in men's and women's basketball, to permit coaches to make telephone calls to a prospect's high-school coach (or high-school administrator) during the July evaluation period when the high-school coach or administrator is not in attendance at the prospect's certified event.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

at Noninstitutional Camps/Clinics

Intent: To permit noncoaching staff members (for example, compliance coordinators) to present educational sessions at noninstitutional camps/clinics not operated in accordance with restrictions applicable to institutional camps, provided the staff member does not make a recruiting presentation in conjunction with the appearance.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Academic Transcript

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that a prospective student-athlete must present an official academic transcript or a copy of the official transcript before the prospective student-athlete making an official visit to a member institution.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective August 1, 2004.

No. 03-77 Recruiting -- Printed Recruiting Materials -- General Correspondence --
Express Mail

Intent: To prohibit an institution from using any express mail services to send recruiting correspondence, other than the National Letter of Intent agreement or other written admissions/financial aid commitment to attend the institution, to domestic prospective student-athletes, their parents or guardians or their coaches.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Prospective Student-Athlete

Intent: To revise the definition of a prospective student-athlete to specify that an individual enrolled and receiving institutional athletics aid during the summer before initial full-time enrollment is not a prospective student-athlete.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Tryout Exception -- Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution's strength and conditioning coach with department-wide duties to design and conduct specific voluntary workout programs for basketball prospective student-athletes who have either signed a National Letter of Intent or been accepted for enrollment in a regular full-time program of studies at that institution and who are receiving financial aid to attend the institution's summer school before initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3; further, to permit an institution to finance medical expenses for such basketball prospects who sustain an injury while participating in the voluntary summer workouts.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Medical Exams -- Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution to administer medical examinations to a basketball prospect who is receiving financial aid to attend summer school before initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3.

Council/Board action: Withdrawn by sponsor.

Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To specify that an institution may produce either a recruiting brochure or media guide (but not both) in each sport it sponsors and provide it to a prospect only through electronic mail or the institution's Web site.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Student-Athlete

Intent: To specify that telephone contact on more than one occasion with a prospective student-athlete does not cause the prospective student-athlete to be considered recruited; further, to specify that the prospective student-athlete shall be recruited if the institution issues the National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the prospect.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Student-Athlete

Intent: To include the issuance of a National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the current list of actions that cause a prospective student-athlete to be considered recruited.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Materials -- Highlight Film/

Videotape/Audio Tape

Intent: To permit a narrator to appear on an institution's highlight film, provided the narrator appears in a setting that includes any area related to the site of competition or the institution's campus.

Council/Board action: Defeated.

No. 03-98 Recruiting -- Offers and
Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To permit an institution's athletics department to employ prospective student-athletes who are not athletics award winners, as specified.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-99 Recruiting -- Offers and
Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To specify that institutional departments outside of the athletics department may employ prospective student-athlete who are athletics award winners provided the athletics department is not involved in the arranging of employment; further, to permit an institution's recreation department to employ prospective student-athletes who are athletics award winners, regardless of whether the recreation department reports to the institution's athletics director.

Effective date: Immediately.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-104 Recruiting -- Contacts and Evaluations -- Men's and Women's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate contacts and official visits with prospective student-athletes in their junior year of high school and to reformat the rules surrounding permissible evaluation activities during contact periods for both men's and women's basketball.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

No. 03-111 Recruiting -- Four-Year College Prospects -- Financial Aid

Intent: To permit an institution to provide nonathletically related financial aid during the first academic year to a transfer student-athlete whom the institution did not receive written permission to contact from the previous four-year institution's athletics director (or designee).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Council/Board action: Initial approval/comment period.

Proposals not in the Official Notice

Intent: To eliminate the athletics certification interim-report requirement for Division I institutions.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

Intent: To eliminate the institutional mission operating principle of the athletics certification program.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

Intent: To eliminate the fiscal integrity operating principles of the athletics certification program.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

Intent: To eliminate the sportsmanship and ethical conduct operating principle of the athletics certification program.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

Intent: To change the date by which institutions must submit a written report of the postseason bowl game from February 1 to March 1.

Council/Board action: Adopted as noncontroversial legislation and is effective immediately.

No. 03-137 Administrative Regulations -- Graduation-Rate Disclosure -- Filing Procedure

Intent: To specify that a member institution must submit a copy of its federal graduation rate survey (that is, Integrated Postsecondary-Education Data System Graduation-Rate Survey (IPEDS GRS-1)) directly to the NCAA national office on or before the applicable deadline established by the federal government for the submission of the federal government's copy of the survey.

Council/Board action: Adopted as emergency legislation and is effective immediately.

Division I-A Football Scheduling Requirements

Intent: To reduce from five to four the number of home games a Division I-A institution must schedule against Division I-A opponents during the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

Council/Board action: Adopted as emergency legislation and is effective immediately.