---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000107815-23-000089"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WEC"
cik: "0000783325"
company_name: "WEC ENERGY GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2023-01-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T12:47:07.798149+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WEC Energy Group adopts bylaw amendments requiring compliance with SEC Rule 14a-19 for stockholder director nominations

## Summary
- Amendments adopted January 19, 2023; effective immediately.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies for non-Board nominees must comply with Rule 14a-19 and provide proof of meeting voting power threshold.
- Company may disregard proxies or votes for a soliciting stockholder's nominees if Rule 14a-19 not followed.
- Director nominees must consent to being named in proxy statement and provide additional information.
- Soliciting stockholders must use a proxy card color other than white.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000107815-23-000089
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WEC
- cik: 0000783325
- company_name: WEC ENERGY GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-01-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783325/000010781523000089/0000107815-23-000089-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783325/000010781523000089/wec-20230119.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WEC ENERGY GROUP, INC.: Amended bylaws to require compliance with Rule 14a-19 for stockholder nominations, including delivery of proxy statements, consent of nominees, and other technical changes (effective 2023-01-19).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-19
  source text: On January 19, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of WEC Energy Group, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted certain amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/783325/000010781523000089/0000107815-23-000089-index.htm

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