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 8/12/2011)
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 8/12/2011)
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.
2011-26: Includes the World University Championships in all bylaws that apply to the World University Games.
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.
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.
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.)
2011-46: In 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.)
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.
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.)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 10/27/2011)
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 10/27/2011)
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 10/27/2011; other parts of the proposal havea 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 10/27/2011; effective 4/1/2012)
2011-99: Establishes a new men's basketball recruiting model. (Adopted 10/27/2011; 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.]
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.
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).