---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000025232-23-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CUZ"
cik: "0000025232"
company_name: "COUSINS PROPERTIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T06:46:14.570984+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cousins Properties stockholders approve annual say-on-pay frequency at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- Annual meeting held April 24, 2023; advisory vote approved frequency of every year for future say-on-pay votes.
- Vote tally: 127,984,525 for every year, 38,635 for two years, 6,597,390 for three years, 395,912 abstentions.
- Board adopts annual say-on-pay frequency until next required advisory vote on frequency.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000025232-23-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CUZ
- cik: 0000025232
- company_name: COUSINS PROPERTIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523223000039/0000025232-23-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523223000039/cuz-20230428.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-23-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-23-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-23-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  COUSINS PROPERTIES INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation (say on pay) at the 2023-04-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-24
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, a frequency of every year for future advisory votes to approve the Company's executive compensation ("say on pay"). There were 127,984,525 votes cast for a frequency of every year; 38,635 votes cast for a frequency of every two years; 6,597,390 votes cast for a frequency of every three years; and 395,912 abstentions.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523223000039/0000025232-23-000039-index.htm

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