---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001056903-25-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWR"
cik: "0001056903"
company_name: "AMERICAN STATES WATER CO"
filed_at: "2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T17:19:45.358136+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AWR shareholders elect directors, approve say-on-pay, ratify auditors

## Summary
- All three Class II director nominees (Bontá, Hopkins, Sprowls) received >28M votes for, with <2.3M withheld each.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed: 28.2M for, 1.9M against, 200.7K abstentions.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ratified as auditor with 33.4M votes for, 1.0M against, 120.2K abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001056903-25-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWR
- cik: 0001056903
- company_name: AMERICAN STATES WATER CO
- filed_at: 2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/1056903/000105690325000011/0001056903-25-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056903/000105690325000011/awr-20250520.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001056903-25-000011
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001056903-25-000011.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001056903-25-000011.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.