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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-028313"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRKS"
cik: "0001564902"
company_name: "United Parks & Resorts Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T00:10:23.664288+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SeaWorld stockholders elect 9 directors and approve say-on-pay at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected with majority support; Ronald Bension, Neha Jogani Narang, and Kimberly Schaefer received lowest votes for.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 54,034,714 for, 348,158 against, 33,010 abstentions.
- Proposal 2 was withdrawn prior to the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-028313
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRKS
- cik: 0001564902
- company_name: United Parks & Resorts Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564902/000095017023028313/0000950170-23-028313-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564902/000095017023028313/seas-20230613.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  United Parks & Resorts Inc. shareholders approved Proposal 1 – Election of Directors at the 2023-06-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-13
  source text: Proposal 1 – Election of Directors Ronald Bension, James Chambers, William Gray, Timothy Hartnett, Yoshikazu Maruyama, Thomas E. Moloney, Neha Jogani Narang, Scott Ross and Kimberly Schaefer were elected to the Board of Directors to serve as directors until the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564902/000095017023028313/0000950170-23-028313-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  United Parks & Resorts Inc. shareholders approved Proposal 3 – Non-binding Vote on Executive Compensation at the 2023-06-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-13
  source text: The stockholders approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564902/000095017023028313/0000950170-23-028313-index.htm

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