---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000928816-23-000268"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PPT"
cik: "0000827773"
company_name: "PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST"
filed_at: "2023-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T23:00:31.949277+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Putnam Premier Income Trust amends bylaws, exempts control share acquisitions

## Summary
- Board amended and restated Bylaws on Feb 23, 2023, adding Vice Chair references, clarifying record dates and proxy validity at adjourned meetings.
- Trustees voted to exempt all prior and future share purchases from Control Share Acquisition provisions of Article 15.
- Changes are procedural governance updates; no financial impact.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000928816-23-000268
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PPT
- cik: 0000827773
- company_name: PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST
- filed_at: 2023-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827773/000092881623000268/0000928816-23-000268-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827773/000092881623000268/a_pit8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST: Amended and restated Bylaws to add Vice Chair references, fix new record date provisions, and clarify proxy validity at postponed/adjourned meetings (effective 2023-02-23).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-23
  source text: On February 23, 2023, the Board of Trustees (the “Trustees”) of Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (the “Fund”) amended and restated the Bylaws of the Fund (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/827773/000092881623000268/0000928816-23-000268-index.htm

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