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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000779152-25-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JKHY"
cik: "0000779152"
company_name: "JACK HENRY & ASSOCIATES INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T06:41:02.948365+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jack Henry reduces stockholder threshold to call special meeting from 67% to 25%

## Summary
- Board approved amended bylaws on May 9, 2025, effective immediately.
- Special meeting threshold lowered from two-thirds to one-quarter of outstanding voting stock.
- Amendment applies to Section 2.3 of the bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000779152-25-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JKHY
- cik: 0000779152
- company_name: JACK HENRY & ASSOCIATES INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779152/000077915225000022/0000779152-25-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779152/000077915225000022/jkhy-20250509.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000779152-25-000022.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  JACK HENRY & ASSOCIATES INC: Amended Section 2.3 to reduce stockholder ownership threshold for calling a special meeting from two-thirds to twenty-five percent (effective 2025-05-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-09
  source text: On May 9, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (the “Company”) approved amended and restated bylaws of the Company (as amended, the “Bylaws”), which became effective immediately. The amendments to the Bylaws consisted of the following revision: (i) Section 2.3 of the Bylaws was amended to reduce the holdings required for stockholders to call a special meeting of stockholders to twenty-five percent (25%) of the stock of the corporation entitled to vote.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779152/000077915225000022/0000779152-25-000022-index.htm

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