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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000034088-22-000060"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XOM"
cik: "0000034088"
company_name: "EXXON MOBIL CORP"
filed_at: "2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T22:02:05.390009+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Exxon Mobil amends by-laws to update advance notice provisions for shareholder meetings

## Summary
- Board amended by-laws effective October 25, 2022, updating advance notice procedures.
- New rules align director nominations and shareholder proposals with SEC Rule 14a-19.
- Removed requirement that Board elect a general tax counsel as an officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000034088-22-000060
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XOM
- cik: 0000034088
- company_name: EXXON MOBIL CORP
- filed_at: 2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408822000060/0000034088-22-000060-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408822000060/xom-20221025.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000034088-22-000060
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000034088-22-000060.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  EXXON MOBIL CORP: Amended by-laws to update advance notice procedures and remove requirement to elect general tax counsel as officer (effective 2022-10-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-10-25
  source text: On October 25, 2022, the Board of Directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation (the “Corporation”) amended the Corporation’s by-laws, effective October 25, 2022, to update certain aspects of the advance notice by-laws and remove the requirement that the Board of Directors elect a general tax counsel as an officer of the Corporation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408822000060/0000034088-22-000060-index.htm

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