---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000940394-24-000993"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFT"
cik: "0001288992"
company_name: "Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust"
filed_at: "2024-10-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T16:23:42.713155+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust eliminates Control Share Provisions via Bylaw Amendment No. 3

## Summary
- On October 10, 2024, the Board adopted Amendment No. 3 to formally eliminate the Control Share Provisions from the By-Laws.
- The Board had previously exempted Control Share Acquisitions on a going-forward basis since January 26, 2023.
- The amendment also makes related conforming changes to the By-Laws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000940394-24-000993
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFT
- cik: 0001288992
- company_name: Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust
- filed_at: 2024-10-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288992/000094039424000993/0000940394-24-000993-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288992/000094039424000993/eft8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-24-000993.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust: Amendment No. 3 to the By-Laws formally eliminating the Control Share Provisions and making conforming changes (effective 2024-10-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-10-10
  source text: On October 10, 2024, the Board adopted Amendment No. 3 to the By-Laws to formally eliminate the Control Share Provisions and to make certain related conforming changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288992/000094039424000993/0000940394-24-000993-index.htm

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