---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-002530"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HST"
cik: "0001070750"
company_name: "HOST HOTELS & RESORTS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T15:29:54.090686+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Host Hotels amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Bylaws amended Feb 8, 2023, to comply with SEC universal proxy rules and update advance notice provisions.
- Stockholders must include representations on solicitation intentions and nominee willingness to serve.
- Clarified that nominations cannot exceed number of directors to be elected; no substitute nominees without compliance.
- Conforming changes for virtual meetings per Maryland General Corporation Law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-002530
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HST
- cik: 0001070750
- company_name: HOST HOTELS & RESORTS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-02-13T23:59:59+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/1070750/000095017023002530/0000950170-23-002530-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070750/000095017023002530/hst-20230208.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-002530.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  HOST HOTELS & RESORTS, INC.: Amended Bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules and update proxy, advance notice, and virtual meeting provisions (effective 2023-02-08).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-08
  source text: On February 8, 2023, the Board of Directors of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), approved and adopted certain amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s Bylaws, effective immediately, at the recommendation of the Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070750/000095017023002530/0000950170-23-002530-index.htm

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