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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000313616-22-000276"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DHR"
cik: "0000313616"
company_name: "DANAHER CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2022-12-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T08:24:32.000662+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Danaher amends bylaws to update advance notice provisions for shareholder proposals and director nominations

## Summary
- Board amended and restated bylaws effective December 6, 2022.
- Revised advance notice and procedural requirements for shareholder proposals and director nominations.
- Includes other routine and non-substantive updates.
- Full text of amended bylaws attached as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated by reference.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000313616-22-000276
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DHR
- cik: 0000313616
- company_name: DANAHER CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2022-12-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000031361622000276/0000313616-22-000276-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000031361622000276/dhr-20221206.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000313616-22-000276.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  DANAHER CORP /DE/: Amended and restated By-laws to revise advance notice and disclosure requirements for shareholder proposals and director nominations, with other routine updates (effective 2022-12-06).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-06
  source text: On and effective December 6, 2022, the Board of Directors of Danaher Corporation (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated By-laws (as so amended and restated, the “By-laws”) to revise the advance notice and related procedural and disclosure requirements for shareholders to propose business at a meeting of shareholders, including the requirements for the valid nomination of a candidate for director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313616/000031361622000276/0000313616-22-000276-index.htm

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