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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-023437"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "A"
cik: "0001090872"
company_name: "AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T17:55:43.594519+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Agilent adopts bylaw amendment allowing stockholders with 20%+ stake to call special meetings

## Summary
- Board approved amendment to Bylaws on May 17, 2023.
- Stockholders holding 20% of voting stock for at least 1 year may now call a special meeting.
- Amended Bylaws also include advance notice and anti-redundancy provisions for special meetings.
- Full text of Amended Bylaws filed as Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-023437
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: A
- cik: 0001090872
- company_name: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017023023437/0000950170-23-023437-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017023023437/a-20230517.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.: Amended and restated bylaws to permit stockholders holding not less than 20% of voting stock continuously for at least 1 year to call a special meeting of stockholders, with corresponding procedures (effective 2023-05-17).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-17
  source text: On May 17, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s amended and restated bylaws (the “Bylaws” and as further amended and restated, the “Amended Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090872/000095017023023437/0000950170-23-023437-index.htm

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