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Key Dates

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The 2011-12 legislative calendar and meeting dates. "You are here" is indicated in red; votes on legislation are marked with a ∆.

June 21, 2011
Awards/Benefits Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 22-23, 2011
Recruiting Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 24, 2011
Championships Cabinet teleconference
Agenda • Report

June 27-28, 2011
Academic Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 28-29, 2011
Amateurism Cabinet meeting
Agenda and Supplements 1-11, 12-17 • Report

June 29, 2011
Administration Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

July 14, 2011
Legislative Council conference call
∆ Review of Proposals 2009-100-A and 2010-30 as part of override process.
Report

July 15, 2011
Conference, cabinet legislation submission deadline.

August 2, 2011
Leadership Council meeting
Agenda • Report

August 11, 2011
Board of Directors meeting
Agenda • Report

August 15, 2011
Publication of Proposed Legislation available online. Legislative Council Administrative Committee forwards legislation to cabinets.

September 12-13, 2011
Academic Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

September 13, 2011
Championships Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

September 13-14, 2011
Recruiting Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

September 19-20, 2011
Awards/Benefits Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

September 28-29, 2011
Amateurism Cabinet meeting
Agenda and Supplements 1-6, 8, 9, 12-14 • Report

September 29, 2011
Administration Cabinet teleconference
Agenda • Report

October 10, 2011
Override requests due for Proposals 2011-9 and 2011-10
Override details

October 13, 2011
Leadership Council meeting
Agenda • Report

October 17-18, 2011
Legislative Council meeting
Agenda • Report

October 25, 2011
 Initial amendment period ends.

October 27, 2011
Board of Directors meeting
Deadline for submission of proposals sponsored by the Board.
Agenda • Report

November 15, 2011
Online publication of Official Notice, FAQ, and a list of modifications, alternatives, and new legislation since the publication of the POPL.

December 12-16, 2011
∆ Override voting period for Proposal 2009-100-A via LSDBi.

December 26, 2011
Override period ends for proposals adopted in October: Proposals 2011-69, 2011-70, 2011-92*, 2011-93*, 2011-94, 2011-95*, 2011-96, 2011-97*, 2011-98, 2011-99*, 2011-100*

Asterisked items are effective immediately, either in whole or in part.

Override details

January 11-12, 2012
Legislative Council meeting at NCAA Convention
∆ Initial consideration of legislation in Official Notice; reconciliation of conflicting proposals.
Agenda • Report

January 12, 2012
Leadership Council meeting at NCAA Convention
Agenda • Report

January 14, 2012
Board of Directors meeting at NCAA Convention
∆ Review of proposals considered at January Legislative Council meeting, review of Proposals 2011-96, 2011-97.
Agenda • Report

February 2, 2012
Awards/Benefits Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

February 6-7, 2012
Academics Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

February 6-12, 2012
Discussion period for override of Proposal 2011-97

February 7-8, 2012
Recruiting Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

February 8-9, 2012
Administration Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

February 13-17, 2012
∆ Voting period for override of Proposal 2011-97
Override fails, 205-125 (62.5% needed to override)

February 15, 2012
Championships Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

February 15-16, 2012
Amateurism Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

March 14, 2012
Amendment-to-Amendment period closes. Amendment details.

Override period ends for proposals considered in January:

Override details

Comment details

April 12, 2012
Leadership Council meeting
Agenda • Report

April 16-17, 2012
Legislative Council meeting
∆ Final consideration of remaining legislative proposals.
Agenda • Report

April 26, 2012
Board of Directors meeting
∆ Potential review of proposals considered at April Legislative Council meeting.
Agenda • Report

On the table: Proposals 2010-109-B and 2011-65.

June 11-12, 2012
Academics Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 13-14, 2012
Recruiting Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 19, 2012
Awards/Benefits Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 20, 2012
Championships Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 20-21, 2012
Amateurism Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

June 25, 2012
Override period ends for proposals considered in April.

Adopted: 2011-18*, 2011-24*, 2011-25*, 2011-28-B*, 2011-29-B*, 2011-32*, 2011-40, 2011-48*, 2011-53, 2011-54, 2011-74*, 2011-77, 2011-79*, 2011-80-B*, 2011-81*, 2011-82*, 2012-4, 2012-5*, 2012-6, 2012-7, 2012-8*, 2012-9.

Defeated: 2011-44 (six-semester high school transcript required before NLI can be signed).

July 10, 2012
Administration Cabinet meeting
Agenda • Report

October 15-16, 2012
Legislative Council meeting

On the table: 2010-16-C, 2010-16-C-1, 2010-16-C-2, 2010-18-C, 2010-18-C-1, 2010-18-C-2, 2010-20-C, 2010-20-C-1, 2010-26 + 2010-26-3, 2010-37, 2010-48, 2010-58-C, 2011-12, 2011-13, 2011-14, 2011-15, 2011-16, 2011-17, 2011-19, 2011-20, 2011-21, 2011-22, 2011-30, 2011-31, 2011-33, 2011-37, 2011-38, 2011-39, 2011-41, 2011-47, 2011-49, 2011-55, 2011-56, 2011-57, 2011-58, 2011-60, 2011-61, 2011-66, 2011-71, 2011-73, 2011-76, 2011-78, 2011-83, 2011-84-A, and 2011-85.

August 2, 2012
Board of Directors meeting
Agenda • Report

On the table: Proposals 2010-109-B and 2011-65.

Legislative Resources

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Places to find help.

NCAA Division I governance agendas and reports are available via home pages of various governance committees. Here are several of interest:

• Board of Directors
• Leadership Council
• Legislative Council
• Academic Cabinet
• Administration Cabinet
• Amateurism Cabinet
• Championships/Sports Management Cabinet
• Student-Athlete Awards, Benefits, and Financial Aid Cabinet
• Recruiting Cabinet

2011-12 Division I Publication of Proposed Legislation (POPL).
2011-12 Official Notice.
Legislative proposals FAQ.
Use LSDBi to track specific proposals and create legislative summaries.
The NCAA's Legislative Action and Issues page

NCAA Manual Updates

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As we move through the 2011-12 legislative calendar we will list here newly adopted proposals in effect (unless otherwise indicated) and adopted since the publication of the 2011-12 NCAA Manual.

To see other legislation that has been adopted and which has a future effective date (usually 8/1/2012), use LSDBi.

2011-9: Increases, from 15 to 18, the number of members of the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee and the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics and specifies that the composition of the committees shall be equally distributed among the three divisions; further, specifies that each committee shall include a current chancellor or president from each division. (Adopted 8/2011)

2011-10: Increases, from 30 to 75 [from 15 to 25 for NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) specific legislation], the requisite number of requests to initiate an override of the adoption or defeat of a legislative proposal and, from 100 to 125 (from 40 to 50 for FCS specific legislation), the requisite number of requests to suspend a legislative change; further, establishes the minimum numbers to initiate an override and to suspend legislation specific to the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as 25 and 50, respectively. (Adopted 8/2011)

2011-18: Eliminates the restriction on the receipt of telephone calls from prospective student-athletes (or prospective student-athletes' parents, legal guardians or coaches) that requires such calls to be received by the head coach or one or more of the assistant coaches who count toward the numerical limitations. (Adopted 4/2012)

2011-23: Specifies that an agent is any individual who, directly or indirectly, represents or attempts to represent an individual for the purpose of marketing his or her athletics ability or reputation for financial gain, or seeks to obtain any type of financial gain or benefit from securing a prospective student-athlete's enrollment at an educational institution or from a student-athlete's potential earnings as a professional athlete. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-24: In individual sports, specifies that, prior to full-time collegiate enrollment, an individual may accept up to actual and necessary expenses associated with an athletics event and practice immediately preceding the event, from a sponsor (e.g., neighbor, business) other than an agent, a member institution or a representative of an institution's athletics interests. (Adopted 4/2012)

2011-25: In tennis, specifies that, prior to full-time collegiate enrollment, an individual may accept prize money based on his or her place finish or performance in open athletics events, not to exceed $10,000 per calendar year; further, to specify that once the individual has reached the $10,000 limit, he or she may receive additional prize money on a per-event basis, provided such prize money does not exceed his or her actual and necessary expenses for participation in the event. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-26: Includes the World University Championships in all bylaws that apply to the World University Games. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-27: Specifies that a professional sports organization may serve as a financial sponsor of an intercollegiate competition event, including regular season and postseason events, provided the organization is not publicly identified as such; and that a professional sports organization may serve as a financial sponsor of an activity or promotion that is ancillary to the competition event and may be publicly identified as such; further, eliminates the prohibition on professional sports organizations or personnel as acceptable advertisers in conjunction with NCAA championships. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-28-B: Specifies that on-campus contacts between a prospective student-athlete or his or her relatives (traditional or nontraditional) or legal guardians accompanying the prospective student-athlete and the relatives (traditional or nontraditional) or legal guardians of an enrolled student-athlete shall be permissible. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-29-B: Specifies that off-campus, in-person contact between an enrolled student-athlete and a prospective student-athlete is permissible, provided such contact does not occur at the direction of an institutional staff member. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-32: Permits compliance administrators to make telephone calls to or receive telephone calls from a prospective student-athlete (or the prospective student-athlete's parents or legal guardians) with no limit on the timing or number of such calls, provided the calls relate only to compliance issues. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-34: In women's basketball, specifies that evaluations of live athletics activities during the academic year evaluation periods (other than permissible nonscholastic events) shall be limited to regularly scheduled high school, preparatory school and two-year college contests/tournaments and practices; and regular scholastic activities involving prospective student-athletes enrolled only at the institution at which the regular scholastic activities occur. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-45: In women's basketball, specifies that an institution [including any institutional department (e.g., athletics, recreational/intramural)] shall not host, sponsor or conduct a nonscholastic basketball practice or competition in which women's basketball prospective student-athletes participate on its campus or at an off-campus facility regularly used by the institution for practice and/or competition by any of the institution's sport programs, and to establish limited exceptions, as specified; further, specifies that the use of an institution's facilities for noninstitutional camps is limited to the months of June, July and August; finally, prohibits evaluations at noninstitutional events, camps or clinics that occur on a Division I campus during evaluation periods. (Contracts signed before June 28, 2011, may be honored.) (Adopted 1/12)

2011-46: In FBS football, specifies that an institution [including any institutional department (e.g., athletics, recreational/intramural)] shall not host, sponsor or conduct a nonscholastic football practice or competition (e.g., seven-on-seven events) in which football prospective student-athletes participate on its campus or at an off-campus facility regularly used by the institution for practice and/or competition by any of the institution's sport programs; further, limits the use of institutional facilities for noninstitutional camps or clinics that include prospect-aged participants to June and July in bowl subdivision football and to June, July and August in championship subdivision football. (Contracts signed before August 15, 2011, may be honored.) (Adopted 1/12)

2011-48: In sports other than men's basketball, specifies that it is permissible for an institution's coach to engage in recruiting conversations with a prospective student-athlete during the institution's camps or clinics. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-50: In sports other than basketball and football, specifies that an institution may subscribe to a recruiting or scouting service involving prospective student-athletes, provided the service is made available to all institutions desiring to subscribe and at the same fee rate for all subscribers; further, specifies that an institution is permitted to subscribe to a service that provides scholastic and/or nonscholastic video. In basketball and football, to eliminate the restriction on subscribing to a service that includes access to nonscholastic video. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-52: In basketball and football, specifies that an institution shall not subscribe to a recruiting or scouting service unless the service has been approved by the NCAA pursuant to an annual approval process. (Immediate effective date for approval process; June 1, 2012 for application of legislation.) (Adopted 1/12)

2011-63: Specifies that a student-athlete who is eligible during the term in which degree work is completed (or is eligible as a graduate) remains eligible for any postseason event that begins within 60 days after the end of the term in which the student completes the requirements for the degree (or graduate eligibility). (Adopted 1/12)

2011-72: In fencing, specifies that a student-athlete may compete during the academic year as a member of a USA Fencing member club team at the USA Fencing National Championships. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-74: Specifies that the summer aid proportionality restriction shall not apply to a student-athlete who has exhausted his or her eligibility and is enrolled in course work acceptable toward his or her degree requirements. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-75: In football, specifies that a prospective student-athlete who receives athletically related financial aid during a summer term prior to initial full-time enrollment at the certifying institution shall be an initial and overall counter for the ensuing academic year. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-79: Specifies that the institution may pay transportation, housing and meal expenses for any student-athlete to be present in situations in which a student-athlete or a family member or legal guardian of a student-athlete suffers a life-threatening injury or illness, or in the event of a student-athlete's or student-athlete's family member or legal guardian's death. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-80-B: Permits an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete to participate in not more than two national team tryout competition events, including events from which participants are selected for another tier of tryout competition or events from which final selections are made for the national team that will participate in the Olympic Games, Pan American Games, World Championships, World Cup or World University Games. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-81: Permits an institution or conference to pay actual and necessary expenses for a student-athlete to attend a conference-sponsored life skills program (e.g., leadership, personal development, conflict resolution). (Adopted 4/12)

2011-82: Specifies that proceeds from fundraisers for student-athletes (or their immediate families) due to extreme circumstances beyond the student-athlete's control (e.g., life-threatening illness, natural disaster) may be given directly to the beneficiaries, with receipt kept on file by the institution, which must include the amount of expenses incurred and the total amount received. (Adopted 4/12)

2011-91: In men's golf, specifies that in instances in which the final day of the men's golf championships occurs on a Sunday, competition may begin prior to noon. (Adopted 1/12)

2011-93: Specifies that a multidivisional institution that fails to complete a compliance review and submit a copy of the report to the Administration Cabinet by the end each four-year period shall be subject to specified penalties; further; specifies that the Administration Cabinet may grant a waiver of the penalties based on extenuating circumstances that prevent the completion of the compliance review and submission of the report. (Adopted 10/2011)

2011-95: Revises the NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program, as specified; further, specifies that each conference shall maintain a written policy regarding teams that are subject to a postseason competition restriction with respect to the conference's automatic qualification for postseason competition/championships and revenue distribution. (Adopted 10/2011)

2011-97: Specifies that institutional financial aid may be awarded to a former student-athlete for any term during which he or she is enrolled (full time or part time). (Adopted 10/2011; other parts of the proposal have a later effective date.)

2011-98: Eliminates the bowl licensing system and specifies that the conditions and requirements that must be met in order for an institution to participate in a postseason bowl game to be licensed shall be set forth in the NCAA postseason football handbook. (Adopted 10/2011; effective 4/1/2012)

2011-99: Establishes a new men's basketball recruiting model. (Adopted 10/2011; parts effective immediately, on 4/1/2012, and on 6/15/2012)

2011-100: Permits a member of Division II or Division III that had one sport classified in Division I during the 2010-11 academic year may petition to have one sport of the opposite gender, other than football or basketball, classified in Division I, provided the original sport remains classified in Division I. (Adopted 10/11)

2012-1: In basketball, establishes exceptions to the requirement that participants on a nonscholastic team that participates in a certified event must be legal residents of the state in which the team is located or a geographically adjoining state and not more than a total of three prospective student-athletes from adjoining states may participate on any one nonscholastic team. (Adopted 1/12)

2012-2: In men's basketball, permits an institution to conduct an evaluation of a high school or preparatory school senior or a two-year college prospective student-athlete who has exhausted eligibility or a four-year college prospective student-athlete on its campus or at a site at which it normally conducts practice or competition, as specified. (Adopted 1/12)

2012-3: In men's basketball permits a student-athlete to participate in eight hours per week of required weight-training, conditioning and skill-related instruction not to exceed two hours per week) during an eight-week period during the summer as specified. (Adopted 1/12)

2012-5: Changes the voting line for specific bylaws related to initial eligibility from federated to common for Division I and Division II, as specified. (Adopted 4/12)

2012-9: Delays the implementation of the institutional performance program by one year. [See Proposal 2011-95.] (Adopted 4/12)

ER-2011-15: Clarifies that educational expenses (financial aid) from an outside sports team or organization remains permissible if it is received from a team or organization that conducts a competitive sports program by an individual who is not a member of that team or organization. Proposal No. 2010-69-B deregulated the restrictions on the receipt of outside financial aid and did not intend to preclude the receipt of aid described in this revision. (Adopted 8/11)

ER-2011-16: Clarifies that the initial eight weeks of student-athlete discretionary time must be designated between January 1 and the end of the academic year. Although Proposal No. 2009-81 combined the sections of the legislation related to conditioning activities between January 1 and the start of preseason practice, there was no intent to change the application of discretionary time during the academic year and during the summer before the start of summer conditioning. [But see ER-2011-17, which follows.] (Adopted 7/11)

ER-2011-17: ER-2011-16 was intended to clarify that the required conditioning, weight-training activities and review of game film mentioned in Bylaw 17.9.6.1.1-(b) may not occur outside the academic year. In making that clarification, Bylaw 17.9.6.1.1-(a) was mistakenly revised to state that the eight weeks of discretionary time had to be designated in the academic year, as well. This revision corrects that mistake. (Adopted 12/11)

ER-2012-1: Clarifies that a football student-athlete may use credit hours earned at the certifying institution during the summer prior to initial full-time enrollment and credit hours earned during the summer following the regular academic year to satisfy the 27-semester/40-quarter credit-hour requirement and regain eligibility during the following playing season only in his initial year of full-time collegiate enrollment. (Adopted 2/12)

M-2011-7: Clarifies that if a student-athlete enrolls midyear (e.g., second semester, second or third quarter) and receives any portion of a book allowance, the institution must use the amount in the numerator that is proportionate to the number of terms of enrollment ($400 for semester systems, $534 or $267 for quarter systems). (Adopted 10/11)

M-2012-1: Clarifies that, in sports other than football and men's basketball, an institution's marketing department may enter into a reciprocal contractual relationship with a professional sports organization for the specific purpose of marketing and promoting an institutionally sponsored sport. (Adopted 4/12)

M-2012-2: Clarifies that if a student-athlete is enrolled for less than a full academic year (e.g., one semester, one or two quarters) and receives any portion of a book allowance, the institution must use the amount in the numerator that is proportionate to the number of terms of enrollment ($400 for semester systems, $534 or $267 for quarter systems). (Adopted 4/12)