---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000885725-26-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BSX"
cik: "0000885725"
company_name: "BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP"
filed_at: "2026-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-14T23:43:12.034599+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Boston Scientific stockholders approve charter amendments and ESPP share increase at 2026 annual meeting

## Summary
- Approved removal of supermajority voting provisions and officer exculpation under Delaware law.
- All 10 director nominees elected with majority votes; no contested seats.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for 2026 fiscal year.
- Approved amendment to Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase reserved shares.
- Stockholders did not approve proposals to allow 25% shareholders to call special meetings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000885725-26-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BSX
- cik: 0000885725
- company_name: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
- filed_at: 2026-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885725/000088572526000036/0000885725-26-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885725/000088572526000036/bsx-20260430.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 70cc581e8f2faf9858999344c49c7a060148f911
  claim: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP: Stockholders approved amendments to the Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation to eliminate supermajority voting provisions, implement clarifying changes, and provide for officer exculpation under Delaware law (effective 2026-05-05).
  evidence_excerpt: approved amendments (the “Charter Amendments”) to the Company’s Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the Annual Meeting filed on March 18, 2026 (the “Proxy Statement”) to (a) eliminate supermajority voting provisions contained therein, as well as to eliminate certain inoperative provisions and implement other clarifying and correcting changes, and (b) provide for exculpation of certain of our officers in certain circumstances as permitted by Delaware law. The Charter Amendments became effective upon the filing of the Company’s Fourth Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 5, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885725/000088572526000036/0000885725-26-000036-index.htm

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