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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000029644-23-000071"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DCI"
cik: "0000029644"
company_name: "DONALDSON Co INC"
filed_at: "2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T23:21:04.478561+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Donaldson amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy card rules

## Summary
- Board adopted Restated Bylaws on July 28, 2023, to align with SEC universal proxy rules.
- Shareholder nominations may be nullified if proponent fails to comply with universal proxy rule.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use non-white proxy cards; white card reserved for Board.
- Bylaws also include updates to stockholder meeting mechanics and conforming changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000029644-23-000071
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DCI
- cik: 0000029644
- company_name: DONALDSON Co INC
- filed_at: 2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29644/000002964423000071/0000029644-23-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29644/000002964423000071/dci-20230728.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000029644-23-000071.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  DONALDSON Co INC: Amended and restated bylaws to adopt universal proxy card rules and reserve white proxy card for board use, with other updates (effective 2023-07-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-28
  source text: On July 28, 2023, the Board of Directors of Donaldson Company, Inc. (the “Company”), upon recommendation of the Corporate Governance Committee, adopted an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as further amended and restated, the “Restated Bylaws”) to, among other things, make changes in connection with Securities and Exchange Commission rules regarding universal proxy cards.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29644/000002964423000071/0000029644-23-000071-index.htm

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