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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-113241"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLIR"
cik: "0001434524"
company_name: "ClearSign Technologies Corp"
filed_at: "2025-11-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T19:10:37.057597+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ClearSign adopts majority voting for director elections and tightens stockholder proposal rules

## Summary
- Board amended bylaws to require majority of votes cast for director elections, except plurality when nominees exceed seats.
- Stockholder proposal and nomination deadlines extended; proponents must prove continuous beneficial ownership until meeting date.
- Revised award agreements change governing law and venue from Washington to Delaware to match state of incorporation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-113241
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLIR
- cik: 0001434524
- company_name: ClearSign Technologies Corp
- filed_at: 2025-11-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434524/000110465925113241/0001104659-25-113241-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434524/000110465925113241/tm2531444d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-113241
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-113241.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-113241.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ClearSign Technologies Corp: Amended and restated bylaws to adopt majority voting for director elections and tighten advance notice procedures for stockholder proposals and nominations (effective 2025-11-11).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-11-11
  source text: On November 11, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of ClearSign Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (as amended and restated, the “A&R Bylaws”), effective on such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434524/000110465925113241/0001104659-25-113241-index.htm

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