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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000022356-24-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBSH"
cik: "0000022356"
company_name: "COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/"
filed_at: "2024-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T08:38:37.654439+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.05
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Commerce Bancshares amends bylaws, sets shareholder proposal deadline for 2025 meeting

## Summary
- Bylaws amended to allow virtual/hybrid annual and special meetings; annual meeting set for last Friday in April.
- For April 25, 2025 annual meeting, shareholder proposals and nominations must be received between Jan 25 and Feb 24, 2025.
- Amendments effective October 25, 2024; no financial or operational impact.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000022356-24-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBSH
- cik: 0000022356
- company_name: COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/
- filed_at: 2024-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.05
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235624000054/0000022356-24-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235624000054/cbsh-20241025.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-24-000054
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-24-000054.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-24-000054.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/: Amended Article II, Sections 1 and 2 of By-Laws to update provisions for annual and special meetings, including virtual or hybrid meeting options and setting annual meeting time and date details (effective 2024-10-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-10-25
  source text: On October 25, 2024, Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) amended its By-Laws to update certain provisions related to annual and special meetings of stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235624000054/0000022356-24-000054-index.htm

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