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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000055785-24-000059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KMB"
cik: "0000055785"
company_name: "KIMBERLY CLARK CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T01:03:07.049109+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kimberly-Clark shareholders approve charter amendment limiting officer liability

## Summary
- Stockholders approved Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit personal liability of certain officers for breaches of fiduciary duty of care (not loyalty).
- All 12 director nominees elected; Deloitte & Touche ratified as independent auditor for 2024.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: ~221.7M for, ~23.5M against.
- Charter amendment also includes technical changes; effective May 2, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000055785-24-000059
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KMB
- cik: 0000055785
- company_name: KIMBERLY CLARK CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000005578524000059/0000055785-24-000059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000005578524000059/pre-20240502.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055785-24-000059
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055785-24-000059.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055785-24-000059.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  KIMBERLY CLARK CORP: Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit certain officer liability and make other technical changes, effective May 2, 2024 (effective 2024-05-02).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-05-02
  source text: the stockholders of the Corporation approved the adoption of an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Restated Certificate”) to limit certain officer liability as permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) and to make other technical changes
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000005578524000059/0000055785-24-000059-index.htm

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