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accession: "0000714395-23-000060"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GABC"
cik: "0000714395"
company_name: "GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T10:14:24.127000+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# German American Bancorp amends bylaws with advance notice and universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Amended and restated bylaws effective December 18, 2023, establishing advance notice procedures for shareholder proposals and director nominations.
- Shareholder notice for 2024 annual meeting must be received between January 19, 2024 and February 18, 2024.
- Bylaws implement SEC universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19) and require shareholder proxy cards to be non-white; white reserved for Board.
- Other changes include procedural requirements for director nominations and business items at shareholder meetings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000714395-23-000060
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GABC
- cik: 0000714395
- company_name: GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714395/000071439523000060/0000714395-23-000060-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714395/000071439523000060/gabc-20231218.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000714395-23-000060.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, INC.: Amended and restated bylaws to establish advance notice procedures for shareholder proposals and director nominations, implement universal proxy rules, and require shareholder proxy cards in a color other than white (effective 2023-12-18).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-18
  source text: On and effective December 18, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of German American Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714395/000071439523000060/0000714395-23-000060-index.htm

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