---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000010795-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDX"
cik: "0000010795"
company_name: "BECTON DICKINSON & CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T21:54:38.684444+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BDX amends by-laws to update advance notice requirements for shareholder nominations and business

## Summary
- Amended Article II, Section 2.D. to revise procedural and disclosure requirements for nominations and other business at annual meetings.
- Changes incorporate timing and information requirements under Exchange Act Rule 14a-19.
- Also updated defined terms, order of business provision, and officer appointment provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000010795-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDX
- cik: 0000010795
- company_name: BECTON DICKINSON & CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000001079525000041/0000010795-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000001079525000041/bdx-20250429.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000010795-25-000041.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BECTON DICKINSON & CO: Amended Article II, Section 2.D. to update procedural and disclosure requirements for advance notice of nominations and other business at annual meetings, including revisions for Rule 14a-19, defined terms, order of business, and appointment of officers (effective 2025-04-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-04-29
  source text: On April 29, 2025, the Board of Directors of Becton, Dickinson and Company (the “Company”) amended Article II, Section 2.D. of the By-laws (the “By-laws”) of the Company to update certain procedural and disclosure requirements relating to the advance notice of nominations and other business at an annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10795/000001079525000041/0000010795-25-000041-index.htm

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