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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000354950-25-000247"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HD"
cik: "0000354950"
company_name: "HOME DEPOT, INC."
filed_at: "2025-11-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T17:25:40.160601+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Home Depot amends bylaws; updates 2026 shareholder proposal deadline window

## Summary
- Board approved bylaw amendments effective Nov 20, 2025, including aligning advance notice window for director nominations and other business to 120-90 days before annual meeting.
- Shareholder proposal and director nomination notices for 2026 annual meeting must be received between Jan 22 and Feb 21, 2026.
- Amendments also clarify nominee limits, remove certain informational requirements, and align with Delaware law changes.
- Changes include removing a provision on binding board determination of special meeting request sufficiency and updating meeting chair election rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000354950-25-000247
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HD
- cik: 0000354950
- company_name: HOME DEPOT, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-11-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000035495025000247/0000354950-25-000247-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000035495025000247/hd-20251120.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000354950-25-000247
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000354950-25-000247.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  HOME DEPOT, INC.: Amended by-laws to align advance notice windows for director nominations and other business, clarify nominee limits, revise informational requirements, and make other updates effective November 20, 2025 (effective 2025-11-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-20
  source text: On November 20, 2025, as part of its periodic review of corporate governance matters, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Home Depot, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amendments to the Company’s by-laws (as so amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), effective as of November 20, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/354950/000035495025000247/0000354950-25-000247-index.htm

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