---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000889331-23-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LFUS"
cik: "0000889331"
company_name: "LITTELFUSE INC /DE"
filed_at: "2023-02-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T03:09:51.304265+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Littelfuse amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy card rules, effective Jan 27, 2023

## Summary
- Board approved amendments to Amended and Restated Bylaws on January 27, 2023.
- New procedural and disclosure requirements for director nominees and shareholder proposals aligned with SEC universal proxy card rules.
- Votes for disqualified or withdrawn director nominees will be treated as abstentions.
- Technical and conforming revisions and clarifications were made to the Bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000889331-23-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LFUS
- cik: 0000889331
- company_name: LITTELFUSE INC /DE
- filed_at: 2023-02-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/889331/000088933123000007/0000889331-23-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/889331/000088933123000007/lfus-20230127.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  LITTELFUSE INC /DE: Amended Bylaws to implement universal proxy card rules, treat votes for disqualified/withdrawn nominees as abstentions, and make technical revisions (effective 2023-01-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-27
  source text: On January 27, 2023, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Littelfuse, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), approved amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), effective as of January 27, 2023, to: (i) implement procedural and disclosure requirements for director nominees and shareholders proposing director nominees and other business for consideration at the Company's annual or special meetings of shareholders, including to address the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently adopted "universal proxy card" rules; (ii) provide that votes for disqualified or withdrawn director nominees will be treated as abstentions; and (iii) make technical and conforming revisions and clarifications.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/889331/000088933123000007/0000889331-23-000007-index.htm

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