This past year, LSU changed its penalty structure for substance abuse to be more lenient.

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Sports Illustrated has obtained documents that outline a change implemented this past year to LSU’s penalty structure for substance abuse. The school’s new policy allows for an extra failed test before penalties are handed out. A player can now fail three tests, not two, before a fourth positive results in a 10% loss of competition (in football, one game). The new addition to the structure is termed a “first term enrollee” test, presumably for all new players.

Another change was made, too: If a player goes four consecutive months without a negative test, he’s allowed to expunge one previous positive test on his cumulative career record. In the previous policy, a player needed to be drug-free for six months to expunge an old positive test. The rest of LSU’s drug testing penalty policy remained the same: a fifth positive costs a player 50% of competition, and a sixth is a potential dismissal, pending an appeal. It’s unclear whether these two changes are directly related to Fulton’s case.

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MLB, the NBA and the NFL consider cheating on a drug test as a positive test that carries a penalty for such an act. MLB has the most severe punishment, with a half-season (80-game) suspension for a first failed test. The NFL’s is a six-game suspension, or 37.5% of the regular season.

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The NCAA strengthened its penalty structure on tampering in 2012 from one similar to professional leagues—a one-year ban. The NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports made that decision because its members believed cheating “should be sanctioned more seriously” than a positive test, said Mary Wilfert, the NCAA associate director of prevention and health promotion.

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