| Proposal |
Sponsor |
Division III committee positions * |
What would it change? |
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2017-1: Independent medical care
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Presidents Council (Management Council; Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports)
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Student-Athlete Advisory Committee: Support
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- Institutions must establish an administrative structure that affirms unchallengeable autonomous authority for athletics health care providers for return-to-play decisions.
- Institutions must designate an athletics health care administrator.
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2017-2: Graduate and post-baccalaureate eligibility
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Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Little East Conference
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Presidents Council: Oppose
SAAC: Support
Interpretations and Legislation Committee: Support
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- Permit students with an undergraduate degree and remaining eligibility to compete at the institution of their choice.
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2017-3: Financial aid from outside sources that consider athletics
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Presidents Council (Management Council; Financial Aid Committee)
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SAAC: Support
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- Allow students to receive outside aid that considers athletics, provided the award isn't tied to a student-athlete attending a certain institution and all other existing conditions are satisfied.
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2017-4: Standardization of annual contest and date of competition exemptions
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Management Council (Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee)
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Presidents Council: No action
SAAC: Support
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- Rather than sport-by-sport exemptions, allow each sport to exempt two scrimmages, exhibitions (including alumni contests) and joint practices in addition to conference and season-ending championship exemptions.
- Wrestling remains precluded from competing before the first permissible contest date, while other sports are permitted to do so.
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2017-5: Field hockey and lacrosse exemption from preseason contest and date of competition limitations
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Middle Atlantic Conferences; Empire 8; Great Northeast Athletic Conference
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Presidents Council: No action
Management Council: Support
SAAC: Support
Championships Committee: Support
Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee: Support
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- Allow field hockey and lacrosse to conduct an exempted scrimmage, exhibition or joint practice with outside competition before the first permissible contest or date of competition, which mirrors legislation adopted for soccer and women's volleyball last year.
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2017-6: Required day off for track and field, swimming and diving
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Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
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Presidents Council: No action
Management Council: Support
SAAC: Support
Championships Committee: Support
Playing and Practice Seasons Subcommittee: Support
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- Eliminate requirement that mandatory day off for track and field and swimming and diving programs be held on the same day for every student-athlete.
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2017-7: Deregulating camps and clinics
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North Coast Athletic Conference; Landmark Conference; Middle Atlantic Conferences
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Presidents Council: No action
Management Council: Support
SAAC: Support
Interpretations and Legislation Committee: Support
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- Deregulate tryout and camps and clinics legislation to allow institutions to conduct or host events involving prospective student-athletes.
- Events must be open to the public and cannot offer free or reduced admission to recruits.
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2017-8: Limit size of provisional membership program
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Management Council (Membership Committee)
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Presidents Council: No action
SAAC: Support
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- Limit the number of institutions in provisional or reclassifying membership process to 12.
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2017-9: Eliminate window of reconsideration
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Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Presidents Council: No action
Management Council: Support
SAAC: Support
Interpretations and Legislation Committee: Support
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- Eliminate the window of reconsideration for Convention proposals after initial votes during the Division III Business Session. Initial votes are final.
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