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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001075531-25-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:21:03.923055+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings amends bylaws; changes special meeting threshold to majority

## Summary
- Board approved amended by-laws on Oct 16, 2025, effective immediately.
- Threshold to call special Board meeting changed to require a majority of the Board.
- Advance notice provision for shareholder proposals revised; other non-substantive changes made.
- Amended and Restated By-Laws filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the 8-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001075531-25-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553125000043/0001075531-25-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553125000043/bkng-20251016.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001075531-25-000043.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Booking Holdings Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to change the threshold for calling a special board meeting to a majority, revise advance notice provisions, and make other non-substantive changes (effective 2025-10-16).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-16
  source text: On October 16, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Booking Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) approved the amendment and restatement of the Company’s By-Laws (the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553125000043/0001075531-25-000043-index.htm

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