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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-006770"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STLD"
cik: "0001022671"
company_name: "STEEL DYNAMICS INC"
filed_at: "2023-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T07:42:52.453279+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Steel Dynamics amends bylaws: adds proxy access, director count range 5-13

## Summary
- Board approved bylaw amendment effective Jan 23, 2023; adds proxy access for holders of 3% stock for 3 years to nominate up to 2 or 20% of directors.
- Director count range set at 5-13; Board determines exact number; directors need not be shareholders at nomination but subject to equity ownership policy.
- Principal office address updated; Board Chair presides at all Board meetings unless absent.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-006770
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STLD
- cik: 0001022671
- company_name: STEEL DYNAMICS INC
- filed_at: 2023-01-26T23:59:59+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/1022671/000110465923006770/0001104659-23-006770-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465923006770/tm234445d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  STEEL DYNAMICS INC: Amended Bylaws to update principal office address, adjust director range to 5-13, clarify director qualifications and board chair role, and add proxy access provisions (effective 2023-01-23).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-23
  source text: On January 23, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Steel Dynamics, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”) that became effective immediately upon approval by the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465923006770/0001104659-23-006770-index.htm

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