---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000766829-23-000148"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTO"
cik: "0000766829"
company_name: "H2O AMERICA"
filed_at: "2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T12:20:41.853190+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SJW Group amends bylaws to enhance stockholder nomination and meeting procedures

## Summary
- Bylaws amended to require compliance with universal proxy rules for director nominations, effective Dec 11, 2023.
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for stockholder proposals, special meeting requests, and advance notice nominations.
- Board adopted Amended and Restated Corporate Governance Policies, superseding separate Nomination Policy.
- Minor administrative and conforming changes to align with Delaware General Corporation Law amendments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000766829-23-000148
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTO
- cik: 0000766829
- company_name: H2O AMERICA
- filed_at: 2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/766829/000076682923000148/0000766829-23-000148-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766829/000076682923000148/sjw-20231211.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000766829-23-000148
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000766829-23-000148.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  H2O AMERICA: Board adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws effective immediately, with changes related to universal proxy rules, special meeting procedures, proxy color, contested election definition, DGCL conformity, and other administrative updates (effective 2023-12-11).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-11
  source text: On December 11, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of SJW Group (the “Company”) adopted and approved, effective immediately, the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”) to, among other things: • require stockholders seeking to nominate directors pursuant to the universal proxy rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission to comply with the requirements of those rules and provide reasonable evidence of such compliance upon request;
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766829/000076682923000148/0000766829-23-000148-index.htm

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