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accession: "0000070858-22-000147"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BAC"
cik: "0000070858"
company_name: "BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T03:46:26.926958+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bank of America amends bylaws to align with universal proxy rules and DGCL updates

## Summary
- Amendments require stockholders soliciting proxies under universal proxy rules to provide certain info and use non-white proxy cards.
- Stockholders calling special meetings must now provide same info as for annual meeting proposals/nominations.
- DGCL alignment: updated notice of adjournment and access to stockholder list provisions.
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for director nominations, including financial transactions and plans affecting control.
- Majority voting standard description simplified; proxy access provisions updated.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000070858-22-000147
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BAC
- cik: 0000070858
- company_name: BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2022-12-16T23:59:59+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/70858/000007085822000147/0000070858-22-000147-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70858/000007085822000147/bac-20221214.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000070858-22-000147.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/: Amended Bylaws to revise procedural and disclosure requirements for stockholder proposals and director nominations, align with universal proxy card rules and DGCL amendments (effective 2022-12-14).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-14
  source text: On December 14, 2022, the Board approved and adopted amendments to the Bylaws to revise and clarify certain procedural and disclosure requirements for the Corporation’s stockholders proposing business or director nominations for consideration at the Corporation’s annual or special meetings of stockholders, including to provide an orderly process in consideration of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recently adopted “universal proxy card” rules, and to reflect recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70858/000007085822000147/0000070858-22-000147-index.htm

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