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accession: "0000007332-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000007332"
company_name: "SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO"
filed_at: "2023-03-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T21:48:10.674832+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southwestern Energy amends bylaws to specify majority-votes-cast standard for stockholder matters

## Summary
- Board unanimously adopted amended and restated bylaws effective March 21, 2023.
- Section 2.9(a) modified: matters other than director elections decided by majority of votes cast.
- Each share entitled to one vote; votes may be cast in person or proxy.
- Board or presiding officer may require written ballot for any vote.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000007332-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000007332
- company_name: SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO
- filed_at: 2023-03-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7332/000000733223000012/0000007332-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7332/000000733223000012/swn-20230321.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000007332-23-000012.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO: Amended and restated bylaws, modifying Section 2.9(a) to specify vote majority requirement and voting procedures at stockholder meetings (effective 2023-03-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-21
  source text: Effective on March 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Southwestern Energy Company (the “Company”) unanimously adopted the amended and restated bylaws of the Company (as so amended and restated, the “Bylaws”). The amendment, among other things, modified Section 2.9(a) to read: "Unless otherwise required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any question, action or matter, with the exception of the election of directors, brought before any meeting of the stockholders shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast on the question, action, or matter, voting as a single class. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, and subject to Section 2.12 of this Article II, each stockholder represented at a meeting of the stockholders shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote for each share of the capital stock entitled to vote thereat held by such stockholder. Such votes may be cast in person or by proxy as provided in Section 2.11 of this Arti
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7332/000000733223000012/0000007332-23-000012-index.htm

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