This summary of actions taken at the 2001 Convention is
provided by the NCAA membership services staff. Any questions regarding this summary should be directed to that
office. [Note: The intent statement is for the entire
proposal. Therefore, some facts may not
be specifically applicable to the subsection(s) of a proposal.]
|
Proposal No. |
Title |
Intent |
Effective Date |
Voting Result |
COUNT (actual
count or paddle) |
|
No. 1 |
Immediately* |
Adopted |
Paddle |
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|
No. 2 |
Recruiting ?
Entertainment on Official Visits ? Restitution for Receipt of Improper
Benefits |
To specify that an
institution does not have to declare a student-athlete ineligible and seek
reinstatement for violations of Bylaw 13.7.6 when a student-athlete received
an improper benefit, provided the student-athlete repays the value of the
improper benefit. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 3 |
Recruiting ? Camps/Conferences ? Athletes in
Action |
To specify that camps, clinics and conferences
conducted by Athletes in Action shall be exempt from NCAA restrictions on
camps and clinics. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 4 |
Recruiting ? High-School All-Star Games |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
|
No. 5 |
De Minimis Violations |
To specify instances in which a de minimus
violation will not render a prospective student-athlete ineligible while
retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an institutional
violation. |
Immediately* |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 6 |
10-Semester/15-Quarter Extension Request ?
Eligibility For Practice |
To permit a student-athlete who has exhausted
his or her 10-semesters/15-quarters of eligibility to practice, but not
compete, for 30 consecutive-calendar days provided the institution has filed
a 10-semester/15-quarter extension request per NCAA Bylaw 30.6.1 with the
NCAA national office. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 7 |
Eligibility ? Collegiate All-Star Contests |
To preclude student-athletes with eligibility
remaining from participating in collegiate
all-star contests in all sports. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 8 |
Eligibility ? Restitution For Receipt Of
Improper Benefits |
To specify instances in which a de minimis
violation of Bylaw 16 will not render an enrolled student-athlete ineligible
while retaining the fact that such a violation shall be considered an
institutional violation. |
Immediately* |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 9 |
Permissible Benefits ? Postseason Events |
To permit institutions to secure or reserve
lodging at postseason events at a reduced or special rate for the parents (or
legal guardians) and relatives of student-athletes participating in the
event. |
Immediately* |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 10 |
Legislative Process - Amendment-To-Amendment
Requirements |
To specify that amendment-to-amendments may be
sponsored by one conference or eight active member institutions. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 11 |
Legislative
Process ? Proposals Sponsored By
Presidents Council |
To give the Presidents Council authority to
waive the September 1 Presidents Council sponsorship deadline as specified. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 12 |
Amateurism ? Activities Prior To Initial
Enrollment |
To permit individuals to participate in
certain activities prior to initial collegiate enrollment without
jeopardizing eligibility and to specify that an individual may be charged
with a season(s) of competition during each calendar year of participation in
outside competition subsequent to high school graduation and prior to initial
collegiate enrollment. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
217-29-2 |
|
No. 13 |
Recruiting ?
Telephone Calls |
To permit an institution to make unlimited
telephone calls to prospective student-athletes subsequent to the calendar
day on which the prospect signed the institution's written offer of admission
or financial aid, provided that date is not prior to the initial regular
signing date for the National Letter of Intent program. |
August 1, 2001 |
Defeated |
116-133-2 |
|
No. 14 |
Initial Eligibility ? Core Curriculum
Requirements ? Computer Science |
To specify that computer science courses are
not acceptable core courses in meeting initial-eligibility core-curriculum
requirements. |
August 1, 2005; for students first entering a
collegiate institution on or after August 1, 2005. |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 15 |
Financial Aid ? Eligibility For Financial Aid |
To permit an institution to grant
athletically-related financial aid for a maximum of 10 semesters/15 quarters
and to provide institutional financial aid after this time period at the
discretion of the institution consistent with institutional policies for
awarding financial aid in general. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
229-14-1 |
|
No. 16 |
Financial Aid ? Tuition Waivers |
To specify that institutional tuition waivers
not awarded based in any degree on athletics ability are exempt from
individual and institutional financial aid limits. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
201-41-2 |
|
No. 17 |
Financial Aid ? Academic Honors Awards And
Honorary Academic Awards |
To clarify the application of Academic Honor
Awards and Honorary Academic Awards and to exempt Academic Honor Awards from
counting in individual financial aid limits. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
243-3-0 |
|
No. 18 |
Financial Aid ? Employee Dependent Tuition
Benefits |
To eliminate the requirement that an
institution must count "employee dependent tuition benefits"
against individual and institutional limits. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
232-14-1 |
|
No. 19 |
Financial Aid ? On-Campus Employment |
To exempt all on-campus employment earnings
from both individual and institutional financial aid limits. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
215-28-0 |
|
No. 20 |
Exempted Government Grants ? Federal
Supplemental Education Opportunities Grant (SEOG) |
To add the Federal Supplemental Education
Opportunities Grant to the list of government grants that may be exempted
from institutional and individual limits. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
200-42-5 |
|
No. 21 |
Financial Aid ? Off-Campus Employment During
Vacation Period |
To exempt, from institutional and individual
financial aid limits, earnings from off-campus employment that occurs during
any institutional vacation period. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
238-8-1 |
|
No. 22 |
Summer Financial
Aid |
To permit Division II institutions to provide
summer financial aid to student-athletes in accordance with institutional
policy applicable to the general student body. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
218-29-0 |
|
No. 23 |
Financial Aid ? Awarding Institutional
Financial Aid To Professional Athlete |
To permit a student-athlete who is eligible
for competition in a sport to receive athletically-related financial aid,
even if the student-athlete is a professional in a second sport and is under
contract or receiving compensation from a professional organization in the second
sport. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
227-18-1 |
No. 24 |
Financial Aid ?
Counters |
To specify that a student-athlete is not
considered a counter solely due to the receipt of earnings from employment in
the athletics department or athletics facilities. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
227-20-1 |
|
No. 25 |
Maximum Institutional Grant-In-Aid Limitations
? Injury Or Illness After Initial Practice |
To specify that student-athletes sustaining an
incapacity injury or illness during or subsequent to the first practice will
count during the current academic term but may be exempted in subsequent
academic terms. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
238-6-1 |
|
No. 26 |
Financial Aid ? Counters |
To revise the definition of a
"counter" as specified. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
243-4-2 |
|
No. 27 |
Financial Aid ? Multiple-Sport Participants |
To permit an institution, at its discretion,
to count financial aid awarded to a multiple sport student-athlete in either
sport in which the individual participates, provided the student-athlete,
legitimately satisfies the requirements set forth in Bylaw 15.5.3.6.1. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
198-51-0 |
|
No. 27-1 |
Financial Aid ? Multiple-Sport Participants |
To exempt from individual and institutional
limits all on-campus employment earnings outside of the athletics department
or athletics facility up to $2,000 above full grant in aid. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
199-42-6 |
|
No. 28 |
Financial Aid ? On-Campus Employment |
To exempt from individual and institutional
limits all on-campus employment earnings outside of the athletics department
or athletics facility up to $2,000 above full grant in aid. |
August 1, 2001 |
Moot with adoption
of Proposal No. 19 |
|
|
No. 29 |
Playing And Practice Seasons ? Individual
Skill Instruction |
In sports other than football, to permit four
student-athletes from the same sport to participate in individual
skill-related instruction outside of the playing season during the academic
year. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 30 |
Men's Championships ? Sponsorship Criteria ?
Minimum Period |
To specify that a new championship may be
established in a men's sport if the minimum number of sponsoring institutions
exists for one academic year (rather than for two consecutive academic
years). |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 31 |
Amateurism ? Educational Expenses |
To permit individuals to accept educational
expenses (i.e., tuition and fees, room and board and books) prior to
collegiate enrollment from any individual or entity other than an agent,
professional sports team/organization or representative of an institution's
athletics interests, provided such expenses are disbursed directly through
the recipient's educational institution (e.g., preparatory school, high
school). |
Immediately* |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 32 |
Recruiting ? Publicity |
To permit athletics department staff members
and, under special conditions, coaches to serve as announcers for
high-school, college preparatory school or two-year college contests. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 33 |
Recruiting ? Publicity
|
To permit noncoaching members of an
institution's athletics staff to serve as an announcer or commentator on high
school, college preparatory or two-year college radio or television
broadcasts. |
August 1, 2001 |
Moot with adoption of Proposal No. 32 |
Paddle |
|
No. 34 |
Eligibility ? 10-Semester Rule ? Joint College
/High School Programs |
To indicate that an individual would not
utilize a semester by enrolling in a joint college/high school program unless
the individual practices or competes for the college's athletics programs. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No.35 |
Satisfactory Progress ? Missed Term Exception |
To prohibit the use of the missed-term
exception during a student-athlete's initial academic year of residence at
the certifying institution. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 36 |
Two-Year College Transfer Eligibility ?
Two-Year Nonparticipation Exception |
To modify the two-year college transfer
legislation to permit a student-athlete to be immediately eligible at a
Division II institution upon transfer, provided the student satisfies to
provisions of the two-year nonparticipation exception applicable to
"4-4" and "4-2-4" transfers. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 37 |
"4-2-4" Transfer Eligibility ?
Nonrecruited Student Exception |
To modify the "4-2-4" transfer
legislation to permit a student-athlete to be immediately eligible at a
second four-year institution upon transfer from a two-year college, provided
the student satisfies the provisions of the nonrecruited student exception
applicable to two-year transfers. |
August 1, 2001 |
Adopted |
Paddle |
|
No. 38 |
Eligibility ? Penalty For Ineligibile
Participation Or Receipt Of Improper Aid |
To eliminate the legislation specifying that
the loss of a student-athlete's eligibility due to ineligible participation
or receipt of improper aid applies only to the institution involved in the
violation. |
August 1, 2001 |