Legislation

Everything you ever wanted to know about NCAA legislation and the legislative process.

Key Dates

The 2007-08 legislative calendar and meeting dates. "You are here" is indicated in red; votes on legislation are marked with a ∆

June 11-13, 2007
Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda  (PDF)  •  Report

June 26-27, 2007
Championships/Competition Cabinet meeting at Savannah, GA
 Agenda  •  Report

July 15, 2007
Conference, cabinet legislation submission deadline.

August 9, 2007
Board of Directors meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda   •   Report

August 15, 2007
 Management Council Administrative Committee referral of legislation to cabinets.
Initial web-based publication of legislation.

September 10-12, 2007
 Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet meeting at Indianapolis, IN
 Review of legislation.
 Agenda  (PDF)  •  Report

September 19-20, 2007
 Championships/Competition Cabinet meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Review of legislation.
Agenda  •  Report

October 22-23, 2007
 Management Council meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda  •  Anticipated Action Items  •  Report

October 23, 2007
 Initial amendment period ends.

November 1, 2007
 Board of Directors meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Deadline for submission of proposals submitted by Board of Directors.
Agenda  •  Report

November 15, 2007
 Publication of Official Notice.

January 12, 2008
 NCAA Convention, Nashville, TN
∆  Membership vote on Proposal 2007-012 at Opening Business Session.

∆ Membership votes on Proposals 2006-040, 2006-087, 2007-009 at Legislative Forum.

January 13, 2008
 Management Council meeting at NCAA Convention, Nashville, TH
∆  Initial consideration of legislation in Official Notice; reconciliation of conflicting proposals.

Agenda  •   Report

January 14, 2008
Board of Directors meeting at NCAA Convention, Nashville, TN
∆  Consideration of Proposals recommended by Management Council for immediate adoption.
Agenda  •  Report

February 5-6, 2008
 Championships/Competition Cabinet meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda  •  Report

February 11-13, 2008
 Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet meeting at Savannah, GA
Agenda  (PDF)  •  Report

March 14, 2008
 60-day override/comment/amendment period ends. 

April 14-15, 2008
 Management Council meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda  •  Anticipated Action Items  •  Report

On the Table: Proposals 2005-101, 2005-102, 2007-025, 2007-026, and 2007-028

April 24, 2008
 Board of Directors meeting at Indianapolis, IN

Agenda  •  Report

∆  Consideration of Proposals given final consideration at April Management Council meeting.

June 9-11, 2008
 Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda  (PDF)  •  Report

June 23, 2008
 60-day override period ends for the following proposals:

Approved Proposals 2007-016-B, 2007-030-C, 2007-035*, 2007-040 (FCS), 2007-050-B, 2007-052 (FBS)*, 2007-061 + 2007-061-1*, 2007-066 + 2007-066-1, 2007-073 + 2007-073-1, 2007-078, 2007-079, 2007-081, 2007-083, 2008-004*, 2008-006*.

Asterisked proposals are effective immediately.

The adopted legislation; a table-based summary.

Defeated Proposals 2007-058, 2007-068.

June 24-25, 2008
 Championships/Competition Cabinet meeting at Site TBD
Agenda  •  Report

August 7, 2008
Board of Directors meeting at Indianapolis, IN
Agenda   •   Report

Apr 25, 2008 11:27 AM

Legislative Resources

Places to find help.

Board of Directors
Management Council
Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet
Championships/Competition Cabinet

There's also a page for older (through January 2001) reports.

Apr 25, 2008 10:33 AM

NCAA Manual Updates

The legislation below is currently in effect (unless otherwise indicated) and was adopted since the publication of the 2007-08 NCAA Manual.
To see other legislation that has been adopted and which has a future effective date (usually 8/1/08), use LSDBi.
2007-010: Specifies that for a four year period beginning August 9, 2007, no institution may begin the Division I provisional or reclassification membership process (including the exploratory process), no institution may begin the multidivisional membership reclassification process and no new single sport or multisport conference shall be elected to Division I conference membership.

2007-011: Specifies that all NCAA championships shall be conducted in accordance with the general policies established by the Championships/Competition Cabinet, Management Council, Board of Directors and/or the Executive Committee.

2007-019: Specifies that an institution may replace, on a temporary or limited basis, a coach who takes a leave of absence to participate on or coach the national team or Olympic team of another nation.

2007-021: Specifies that a prospective student-athlete may receive educational expenses or services related to tutoring and standardized test preparatory classes from any individual or entity other than an agent, professional sports teams/organization or a representative of an institution's athletics interests, provided such expenses are disbursed directly to the individual, organization, or educational institution providing the educational service.

2007-022: Specifies that for violations of the preferential treatment legislation in which the value of the benefit is $100 or less, the eligibility of the individual shall not be affected, conditioned on the individual repaying the value of the benefit to a charity of his or her choice; further, to specify that the individual shall remain ineligible from the time the institution has knowledge of receipt of the impermissible benefit until the individual repays the benefit.

2007-027: Specifies that a violation involving schedule cards shall be considered an institutional violation; however, such a violation shall not affect the student-athlete's eligibility.

2007-032: In bowl subdivision football, specifies that the head coach shall not engage in off-campus recruiting activities during the April 15 through May 31 evaluation period.

2007-033-A: In women's basketball, permits an institution to communicate with a prospective student-athlete (or the prospective student-athlete's relatives, legal guardians or coach) during the July evaluation periods, provided the prospective student-athlete has graduated from high school and has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) with the institution or for those institutions not using the National Letter of Intent in women's basketball or for those prospective student-athletes who are not eligible to sign the National Letter of Intent, the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

2007-035: Permits an institution's faculty athletics representative and senior woman administrator to return telephone calls to prospective student-athletes or his or her parents or legal guardians subject to any applicable limitations on the number of telephone calls that an institution may place to prospective student-athletes.

2007-037: In women's basketball, permits institutional coaching staff members to accept collect and toll-free telephone calls placed by a prospective student-athlete and the prospective student-athlete's parents and legal guardians, provided the calls are not placed earlier than the date on which an institution may begin placing telephone calls to the prospective student-athlete.

2007-042: In football, specifies that all evaluations shall be limited to regularly scheduled high school, preparatory school and two-year college contests, practices and regular scholastic activities involving prospective student-athletes enrolled at the institution at which the regular scholastic activities occur.

2007-044: Eliminates the requirement that a prospective student-athlete must have signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) (or, for an institution that does not use the NLI, a written offer of admission and/or financial aid) in order to receive academic support services and use the institution's training room facilities; further specifies that a student who is enrolled in the institution's summer term prior to the student's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution may be provided such services and, in football and basketball, participate in voluntary conditioning activities during the summer with an athletic department's strength and conditioning coach.

2007-045: Permits an institution to use express mail delivery services to provide necessary pre-enrollment information to a prospective student-athlete, provided he or she has signed a National Letter of Intent or institutional financial aid agreement, or has been officially accepted for enrollment.

2007-047: Specifies that after the calendar day on which a prospective student-athlete signs a National Letter of Intent (NLI), there shall be no limit on the forms of electronically transmitted correspondence sent by the institution with which the prospective student-athlete has signed; further, specifies that for an institution not using the NLI, or for a prospective student-athlete who is not eligible to sign the NLI, there shall be no limit after the calendar day on which the prospective student-athlete signs the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

2007-048: Permits an institution to show a computer recruiting presentation to a prospective student-athlete during any permissible on- or off-campus contact; further, permits the recruiting presentation to be posted on the institution's Web site.

2007-051: Permits an institution to conduct one formal press conference to announce the signed commitments of prospective student-athletes and permits coaching staff members to attend functions designed to celebrate the institution's signees in the applicable sport and discuss prospective student-athletes who have signed commitments to attend the institution, including discussions with working media, provided the institution previously has released communications of the prospective student-athletes' commitments to attend the institution to media outlets.

2007-052 (FBS): In bowl subdivision football, permits U.S. Service Academies to make in-person, off-campus contact with a prospective student-athlete during the spring evaluation period of the prospective student-athlete's junior year of high school, including contact at the prospective student-athlete's educational institution.

2007-053-B: In men's basketball, establishes a dead period beginning the day after the conclusion of the spring National Letter of Intent signing period to the day before the first permissible day to conduct institutional basketball camps.

2007-056: In men's lacrosse, specifies that lacrosse evaluations are not permissible from the day after the first Sunday in January through Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and from September 1 through October 31; further, revises the men's lacrosse recruiting calendar, as specified.

2007-059: Specifies that a violation in which the institution fails to certify a student-athlete's eligibility prior to allowing him or her to represent the institution in intercollegiate competition shall be considered an institutional violation per NCAA Constitution 2.8.1; however, such a violation shall not affect the student-athlete's eligibility, provided all the necessary information to certify the student-athlete's eligibility was available to the institution and the student-athlete otherwise would have been eligible for competition.

2007-061 + 2007-061-1: Amends manner in which hardship waiver calculations are performed for individual sports.

2007-062: Increases the maximum number of contests or dates of competition in which a student-athlete may participate in a season and remain eligible for a season-of-competition waiver to three events or 30 percent of the institution's scheduled or completed events in his or her sport.

2007-076: Increases the maximum permissible amount of the postgraduate scholarship that may be awarded as part of a senior scholar-athlete award from $5,000 to $10,000.

2007-077: Specifies that a violation in which a student-athlete's complimentary admissions are provided as hard tickets shall be considered an institutional violation per Constitution 2.8.1; however, such a violation shall not affect the student-athlete's eligibility.

2007-090: In field hockey, specifies that the first permissible contest date shall be the Friday prior to the 11th weekend prior to the start of the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship, except that an alumni contest may be played the weekend prior to the first scheduled contest.

2007-091: In bowl subdivision football, specifies that an institution may take individual photographs of participating student-athletes after the evening meal on the academic orientation day.

2007-094: In men's ice hockey, specifies that the Hockey Commissioners Association (HCA)/Ice Breaker Tournament shall be an annual exemption from the maximum contest limitation.

2007-097*: Specifies that a student-athlete who tests positive for a substance in a banned-drug class shall remain ineligible for all regular-season and postseason competition during the time period ending one calendar year after the collection of the student-athlete's positive drug-test specimen; further, specifies that if the student-athlete participates in any contests from the time of collection until the confirmation of the positive result, he or she must be withheld from an equal number of contests after the 365-day period of ineligibility.

2007-098: Requires that an institution annually submit its race and demographic information to the NCAA in order to be eligible to enter a team or individual in NCAA championship competition.

2007-102: Specifies that the wrestling committee shall be exempt from the requirement that no subdivision shall have more than 50 percent representation on any committee.

2007-105: Specifies that practice prior to departure on a foreign tour is prohibited outside the playing season one week prior to the beginning of the institution's final examination period for the applicable regular academic term through the conclusion of the final examination period.

2007-106: In men's basketball, eliminates the evaluation period and the basketball event certification process for an event held in conjunction with the NCAA Men's Final Four.

2007-110: Specifies that institutional financial aid based in any degree on athletics ability may not be reduced or cancelled during the period of its award because of an injury, illness or physical or mental medical condition.

2007-111: In men's basketball, prohibits evaluations at noninstitutional nonorganized events (e.g., pick-up games) during the summer evaluation period.

2007-112: Specifies that the following additional criteria must be satisfied in order for a summer basketball league or a basketball event to be certified: (1) No individual or agency involved in the marketing of any individual's athletics reputation or ability (including an employee of an agent or anyone associated with an agent in his or her capacity of marketing any individual's athletics reputation or ability) shall be associated in any capacity with the league or event (or any team participating in the league or event); and (2) The league or event operator is required to provide proof of medical insurance coverage for participants.

2007-113: Increases the number of members of the NCAA Wrestling Committee from 13 to 15 and the number of Division I representatives on the committee from six to eight.

2007-114: Increases the number of members of the honors committee from eight to nine and to specify that one member shall be a current or former chancellor or president from a member institution.

2007-116: Specifies that for a four-year period beginning August 9, 2007, no institution shall be permitted to seek classification or reclassification in the football championship subdivision.

2008-001: Specifies that the term of office for a member of the NCAA Honors Committee shall begin on the day following adjournment of the NCAA Convention following the member's appointment.

2008-002: Eliminates the term of office for members of the NCAA Division I Presidential Advisory Group.

2008-004: Specifies that a staff interpretation that has been reviewed and approved by the Legislative Review/Interpretations Committee shall be binding on all other institutions (other than the requesting institution) on publication to the membership.

2008-006: Eliminates the requirement that one of the six Division I members of the Committee on Women's Athletics must also be a member of the Division I Management Council.

M-2007-3: In baseball, clarifies that an institution shall declare a varsity squad of a maximum of 35 student-athletes; that only those student-athletes on the declared varsity squad may participate in varsity countable athletically related activities; that the declared varsity squad members shall not participate in countable athletically related activities with an institution's subvarsity team; and that a student-athlete who is a counter must be included in the varsity squad limit. (Effective 8/1/08)

2008-PP-1: Clarifies that the duty to treat NCAA infractions cases as confidential until the case has been concluded extends to institutions, involved individuals and any person subject to NCAA rules.

2008-PP-2: Specifies that if an involved institution or any person involved in a case (e.g., involved individual, representative of the institution's athletics interests, interviewee) makes information concerning a case public, the involved institution, NCAA staff and the involved person may confirm, correct or deny the information made public.

2008-PP-3: Establishes a Web-based custodial file system and to clarify the procedures for additions to custodial files.

2008-PP-4: Specifies that the chair of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has the authority to resolve procedural issues that arise prior to the infractions hearing.

2008-PP-5: Clarifies that the enforcement staff may establish a deadline for the submission of responses to any reasonable time within 90 days of the date of the notice, provided the institution and all involved individuals consent to the expedited deadline.

2008-PP-6: Incorporates duties imposed on the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions into NCAA Bylaw 32.9 in lieu of Bylaw 32.10.

2008-PP-7: Provides the enforcement staff the opportunity to provide information regarding perceived new information, errors, misstatements and omissions during the appeal process; refines the standard for alterations of penalties on appeal; and clarifies the procedures relating to "new evidence" introduced on appeal.

2008-PP-8: Permits the enforcement staff the opportunity to provide information regarding perceived new information, errors, misstatements and omissions during the appeal process, and permits a nonappealing party the opportunity to be present as a silent observer during an appeals hearing.

ER-2007-20: Clarifies that a prospect's relatives may receive transportation between an institution's campus and any bus or train station or airport on the occasion of his or her official visit. This revision makes Bylaws 13.5.2.4 and 13.5.2.6 consistent.

ER-2007-21: Based on the adoption of Proposal 2007-011, which clarified the authority of the Managment Council, Board of Directors and Executive Committee to establish policies related to the conduct of championships.

ER-2007-22: With the change to the definition of a professional team (Proposal 2001-096), Bylaw 12.2.3.2.2 was later revised, but was duplicative of Bylaw 12.2.3.1.

ER-2007-23: Bylaw 20.02.5.3 is unnecessary since student-athletes who may be affected have already exhausted their athletics eligibility.

ER-2007-24: This revision updates the title of the event as NACWAA is no longer a title sponsor.

ER-2007-25: This revision is appropriate to clarify that the provision is only applicable in instances in which institutional staff members do not initiate or influence a student-athlete's decision to withdraw from a sport.

ER-2007-26: The intent of the original NCAA Division I Working Group on Incentives/Disincentives was to include ineligibility for all postseason competition (including bowl games and NCAA championships) in instances in which an institution fails to submit its APP data by the prescribed deadline.

ER-2007-27: The National Letter of Intent program has eliminated the fall signing period for cross country and track and field. Thus, the recruiting calendar has been updated to reflect this change.

ER-2007-28: The minimum sport sponsorship requirements are detailed in Bylaw 20.9.4.

ER-2007-29: This revision is intended to clarify the types of basketball evaluations that may occur at different locations.

ER-2007-30: This revision clarifies that complete and accurate academic information must be provided to the NCAA Eligibility Center, just as complete and accurate information related to an individual's amateur status must be provided.

ER-2007-31: When a September 24, 1992, official interpretation (Item No. 1) was incorporated into Bylaw 15.3.4, the reference to increasing aid should have been deleted from Bylaw 15.3.4.3. (See 1994 NCAA Convention Proposal No. I-29.)

ER-2007-32: This revision clarifies that field hockey and soccer contests that would otherwise be exempted from the maximum number of contests per Bylaw 17.20.5.3 shall count against the maximum if they are played during the preseason practice period prior to date specified for the first permissible contest.

ER-2008-1: This revision clarifies that the days used as football evaluation days need not be consecutive. Because an evaluation day is used for each day a coach engages in evaluation activities, it would not be possible for an institution to exceed 42 calendar days in using 42 evaluation days. Therefore, it is not necessary to include language that limits the use of the evaluation days to a 42-day period.

ER-2008-2: The provision related to staff member presence should have been deleted with the adoption of 1995 NCAA Convention Proposal No. 120. The provision related to press-release content should have been deleted with the adoption of Proposal 2003-31. Bylaw 13.10.9 indicates that there is no limit on the content of a media release.

M-2008-1: In bowl subdivision football, clarifies that the U.S. service academies shall be limited to 54 evaluation days during the fall evaluation period.

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