---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000864749-23-000205"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TRMB"
cik: "0000864749"
company_name: "TRIMBLE INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T15:20:17.574746+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trimble amends bylaws to add proxy access, majority voting for directors

## Summary
- Proxy access permits a 3%+ stockholder group (up to 20 holders) owning for 3+ years to nominate up to 20% of board (min 2).
- Majority voting standard adopted for director elections (replaces plurality).
- Amendments also update procedures for Universal Proxy Rule 14a-19 compliance.
- Effective December 6, 2023, as adopted by the Board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000864749-23-000205
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TRMB
- cik: 0000864749
- company_name: TRIMBLE INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/864749/000086474923000205/0000864749-23-000205-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/864749/000086474923000205/trmb-20231206.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  TRIMBLE INC.: Amended By-Laws to add proxy access right, majority voting standard for director elections, and other technical/conforming changes including updates for universal proxy rules (effective 2023-12-06).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-06
  source text: On December 6, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board" ) of Trimble Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company" ), adopted amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (as amended and restated, the "By-Laws" ) to: (i) provide stockholders with a proxy access right, (ii) adopt a majority voting standard for the election of directors, and (iii) make other technical and conforming changes, including to update the procedures and disclosure requirements for director nominations made under the Company’s existing advance notice requirements to reflect the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s adoption of Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act" ).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/864749/000086474923000205/0000864749-23-000205-index.htm

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