RESULTS OF THE 2009 ANNUAL MSHSAA ELECTION
THIRTY-TWO
OF THIRTY-THREE AMENDMENTS PASS May,
2009
Following
are the results of the balloting on the amendments to the MSHSAA Constitution
and By-Laws in the 2009 Annual MSHSAA Election.
Amendments to By-Laws require a simple majority of those voting for
passage, while amendments to the Constitution require a 2/3 majority for
passage. Proposals which passed will
become effective July 1, 2009, with the exception
of Proposal Numbers 1, 2 (one-year trial), 6, 27, 30, 32, and 33 shall become EFFECTIVE
IMMEDIATELY; Proposal Number 4 shall become EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2010;
Proposal Number 14 shall become EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2010 and Proposal
Numbers 9, 19, and 22 shall become EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010.
PROPOSAL
NO. 1 - Article
III, Membership, Sections 1 and 6- (PASSED) - 442 FOR, 107 AGAINST
Amends Article III, Sections 1 and 6
of the MSHSAA Constitution to further define a school that is eligible for
MSHSAA membership or to become an Affiliate
Registered School.
PROPOSAL
NO. 2 -Article III, Membership, Sections 6, 7, and 8 - (PASSED) - 248
FOR, 83 AGAINST
Amends the MSHSAA Constitution,
Article III, Membership, Sections 6-8, for a one-year trial to allow
junior high schools to become Affiliate Registered Schools.
PROPOSAL
NO. 3 - By-Law 107, Junior High School Cooperative Sponsorships - (PASSED) - 242
FOR, 89 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 107, Junior High School Cooperative
Sponsorships, to allow more than two neighboring junior high schools to
cooperatively sponsor sports and activities, as long as the cooperative
sponsorship meets the requirements set forth in By-Law 107.
PROPOSAL
NO. 4 - By-Law 108, Summertime Dead Period - (PASSED) - 356 FOR, 193 AGAINST
Amends the by-laws by adding new
By-Law 108, Summertime Dead Period, which would institute a mandatory dead
period for all MSHSAA sports and activities.
The dead period shall last nine consecutive days, would be set
individually by each member school, would be reported to MSHSAA no later than
April 1 each year, and the dead periods for all member schools would be posted
on the MSHSAA website.
PROPOSAL
NO. 5 - By-Law 129, Coaches Required to Attend Rules Meetings - (PASSED) - 354
FOR, 195 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 129, Coaches Required
to Attend Rules Meetings, to indicate that any coach that is responsible for a
team is required to attend a rules meeting for the sport concerned.
PROPOSAL
NO. 6 - By-Law 212, Citizenship Requirements - (PASSED) - 519 FOR, 30 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 212 to further define
the type of moving traffic offenses that would affect a student’s eligibility
for activities.
PROPOSAL
NO. 7 - By-Law 213, Academic Requirements - (PASSED) - 503 FOR, 46 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 213, Academic
Requirements, to further define the credits that are acceptable for academic
eligibility.
PROPOSAL
NO. 8 - By-Law 213, Academic Requirements - (PASSED) - 471 FOR, 78 AGAINST
Amends By-law 213 by increasing the
amount of credit (from one unit to two units) that can be counted toward
academic eligibility from dual enrollment in college classes being taken off
campus with credit being placed on the high school transcript.
PROPOSAL
NO. 9 - By-Law 213, Academic Requirements - (PASSED) - 246
FOR, 85 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 213-c-1, 213-d, and
213-d-4, to increase the academic requirements for students in grades 7 and 8,
beginning with the 2009-10 school year.
PROPOSAL
NO. 10 - By-Law 213, Academic Requirements - (PASSED) - 465 FOR, 84 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 213, Academic
Requirements, to clarify that any change in academic eligibility for junior
high school students takes place on the fifth day of classes into the new
“grading period.”
PROPOSAL
NO. 11 - By-Law 235, Non-School Competition - (PASSED) - 275 FOR, 41 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 235, Non-School
Competition, by adding wording that would prohibit an athlete in golf from
missing a MSHSAA sponsored postseason athletic event involving the athlete or
his/her school team to attend a non-school competitive event.
PROPOSAL
NO. 12 - By-Law 235, Non-School Competition - (PASSED) - 159 FOR, 17 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 235, Non-School
Competition, by adding wording that would prohibit an athlete in tennis from
missing a MSHSAA sponsored postseason athletic event involving the athlete or
his/her school team to attend a non-school competitive event.
PROPOSAL
NO. 13 - By-Law 235, Non-School Competition - (PASSED) - 426 FOR, 123 AGAINST
Amends
By-Law 235.2-c to allow a school coach who has school coaching responsibilities
only at one membership level (high school OR junior high) to coach non-school
teams of a different membership level during the school year outside of
the season.
PROPOSAL
NO. 14 - By-Laws 235, 241 and 242 - Contact with School Sports Coaches - (PASSED)
-
398 FOR, 151 AGAINST
Amends by removing current By-Law
235, Non-School Competition, By-Law 241, Sports Camp/Clinic and Group Sport
Lesson Eligibility Requirements, and By-Law 242, College Tryouts, Auditions and
Evaluation Events, and replacing them with new by-laws providing oversight of
these same areas, arranged by the time of the year in which the
activity takes place. Under this
proposal, the aforementioned by-laws would be entirely replaced by the proposed
by-laws.
PROPOSAL
NO. 15 - By-Law 236, Foreign Student Eligibility and By-Law 238, Residence and
Transfer Requirements - (PASSED) - 457 FOR,
92 AGAINST
Amends By-Laws 236, Foreign Student
Eligibility and 238, Residence and Transfer Requirements by moving the foreign
exchange student section of By-Law 236 into the transfer exception area of
By-law 238, and deleting sections d and e of By-Law 236 in order to treat all
students similarly in regard to transfer eligibility.
PROPOSAL
NO. 16 - By-Law 238, Residence and Transfer Requirements - (PASSED) - 421
FOR, 128 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 238, Residence and
Transfer Requirements, to include Charter Schools.
PROPOSAL
NO. 17 - By-Law 238, Residence and Transfer Requirements - (PASSED) - 515
FOR, 34 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 238, Residence and
Transfer Requirements, to better define “parents” and the requirements for use
of Exception 1: Corresponding Change of Residence of Parents, for the purpose
of residency and transfer.
PROPOSAL
NO. 18 - By-Law 292, Missing School Time - (PASSED) - 357 FOR, 29 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 292, Missing School Time, by deleting the first sentence of the current
by-law which would make the wording consistent with that of other non-athletic
activities.
PROPOSAL
NO. 19 - By-Law 312, District and State Tournaments - (PASSED) - 336
FOR, 213 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 312 to allow for a six-class system within the
district and state tournament structure based on school registration in the
specific sport or activity?
PROPOSAL
NO. 20 - By-Law 322, Fall Sports Season and By-Law 327, Boys Swimming Sports
Season - (PASSED) - 335 FOR,
69 AGAINST
Amends By-Laws 322.0 (Fall Sports
Season) and 327.0-a-1 (Boys Swimming Sports Season) to change the first
possible contest date for cross country, field hockey, boys soccer, boys
swimming, and girls volleyball from Monday of Week Number Nine to the Friday of
Week Number Eight of the Standardized Calendar.
PROPOSAL
NO. 21 - By-Law 325, Spring Sports Season - (PASSED) - 367 FOR, 112 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 325.0 (Spring Sports
Season) to change the first allowable contest date for Baseball, Boys Golf,
Girls Lacrosse, Softball, Girls Soccer, Boys Tennis, Track, and Boys Volleyball
from the Monday of Week Number Thirty-Eight to the Friday of Week Number
Thirty-Seven of the Standardized Calendar.
PROPOSAL
NO. 22 - By-Law 326, Contest Limitations - (PASSED) - 196 FOR, 120 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 326 by reducing the
contest limits for boys and girls golf in order to allow for an expansion of the
Golf state play-off system, to include a sectional round.
PROPOSAL
NO. 23 - By-Law 326, Contest Limitations - (PASSED) - 123 FOR, 53 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 326 by reducing the match limits for boys and
girls tennis in order to allow for an expansion of the Team Tennis state
play-off system.
PROPOSAL
NO. 24 - By-Law 331, Definition of Sport Season - (PASSED) - 236
FOR, 93 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 331, Definition of
Sport Season (Junior High) to establish a first allowable practice date for
junior high teams which is based on the Standardized Calendar, and which would
be one week later than the first allowable practice date for the high school
level.
PROPOSAL
NO. 25 - By-Law 331, Definition of Sport Season - (FAILED) - 158
FOR, 173 AGAINST
Would have amended By-Law 331 to allow junior high schools
to participate in two non-consecutive twelve week seasons of softball and
baseball.
PROPOSAL
NO. 26 -By-Laws 450, 530, and 630, Amateur Standard for Activities - (PASSED) - 452
FOR, 63 AGAINST
Amends By-Laws 450, 530 and 630 to
increase the merchandise award limit for music, speech, and academic
competition from $25 to $100.
PROPOSAL
NO. 27 - By-Law 540, Season Limits - (PASSED) - 218 FOR, 43 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 540.0 (Season Limits)
to allow all Missouri students equal access to allowable interscholastic events
in speech held on Memorial Day Weekend (or later in the summer) if they have
met the requirements of the applicable by-laws and to permit schools to
participate in one interscholastic speech, debate, and/or drama event in
addition to the MSHSAA state tournament between April 1 and the beginning of
summer.
PROPOSAL
NO. 28 - By-Law 550, Speech, Debate, and Drama Rules Meetings - (PASSED) - 199
FOR, 62 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 550.0 (Speech, Debate,
and Drama Rules Meetings) to require the school’s speech, debate, and drama
coach/director to attend an MSHSAA rules meeting every year rather than every
other year.
PROPOSAL
NO. 29 - By-Law 630, Academic Competition Event Sanction Regulations - (PASSED)
-
292 FOR, 94 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 630, Academic
Competition Event Sanction Regulations, to allow schools participating in
Academic Competition to attend one out of state tournament or invitational meet
per year beyond 250 air miles from the perimeter (border) of the state of
Missouri.
PROPOSAL
NO. 30 - By-Law 640, Season Limits - (PASSED) - 297 FOR, 89 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 640.0 (Season Limits) to allow all Missouri
students equal access to allowable interscholastic events in Academic
Competition held on Memorial Day Weekend (or later in the summer) if they have
met the requirements of the applicable by-laws and to permit schools to
participate in one interscholastic academic competition event in addition to
the MSHSAA state tournament between the District Tournament and the beginning
of summer.
PROPOSAL
NO. 31 - By-Law 650, Academic Competition Rules Meetings - (PASSED) - 256
FOR, 130 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 650.0 (Academic
Competition Rules Meetings) to require the school’s coach to attend an MSHSAA
rules meeting every year rather than every other year.
PROPOSAL
NO. 32 - By-Law 721, Renewal Deadline - (PASSED) - 393 FOR, 156 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 721 to set separate
renewal deadlines for each sport season.
PROPOSAL
NO. 33 - By-Law 1025, Appeals Procedure
- (PASSED) - 495 FOR,
54 AGAINST
Amends By-Law 1025-c-2 to allow more
than three members of the Board or the Appeals Committee to serve on an
Emergency Panel.