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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-009254"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STLD"
cik: "0001022671"
company_name: "STEEL DYNAMICS INC"
filed_at: "2024-02-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T10:32:22.025955+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 with new shareholder meeting thresholds and officer changes

## Summary
- Special meetings now callable by shareholders holding ≥25% for at least one year.
- CEO added as officer; Assistant Treasurer removed as officer.
- Shareholder business and director nomination procedures adopted for annual meetings.
- Board meetings may be called by CEO, Chair, Lead Director, or Secretary on request of three directors.
- Compensation Committee now explicitly fixes executive officer compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-009254
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STLD
- cik: 0001022671
- company_name: STEEL DYNAMICS INC
- filed_at: 2024-02-01T23:59:59+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/1022671/000110465924009254/0001104659-24-009254-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465924009254/tm244677d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  STEEL DYNAMICS INC: Amended multiple sections of the bylaws to update shareholder meeting procedures, special meeting request threshold, board meeting rules, officer roles, and other administrative provisions (effective 2024-01-31).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-31
  source text: On January 31, 2024, 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/1022671/000110465924009254/0001104659-24-009254-index.htm

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