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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-025342"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CWT"
cik: "0001035201"
company_name: "CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP"
filed_at: "2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T00:22:48.226463+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# California Water Service Group amends bylaws to enhance stockholder proposal and director nomination procedures

## Summary
- Adopted amended and restated bylaws effective Feb 22, 2023, aligning with Rule 14a-19 under Exchange Act.
- Requires additional background info and disclosures from proposing stockholders and nominees.
- Limits number of director candidates a stockholder may nominate to number of directors to be elected.
- Updates provisions for virtual stockholder meetings and eliminates requirement to examine stockholder list at meetings.
- Incorporates administrative, clarifying, and conforming changes to align with Delaware General Corporation Law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-025342
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CWT
- cik: 0001035201
- company_name: CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP
- filed_at: 2023-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035201/000110465923025342/0001104659-23-025342-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035201/000110465923025342/tm237835d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP: Amended and restated Bylaws to enhance stockholder proposal and nomination procedures, align with Rule 14a-19, and update DGCL provisions (effective 2023-02-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-22
  source text: On February 22, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of California Water Service Group, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), adopted an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective as of such date
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035201/000110465923025342/0001104659-23-025342-index.htm

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