---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-306618"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBRA"
cik: "0001492298"
company_name: "Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T03:17:24.135559+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sabra Health Care REIT restricts classified board without shareholder vote, updates bylaws for universal proxy

## Summary
- Board adopted resolution on Dec 15, 2022 to require stockholder approval before electing classified board under MD Unsolicited Takeovers Act.
- Articles Supplementary filed Dec 16, 2022 with Maryland; effective upon acceptance.
- Bylaws amended to comply with SEC universal proxy rules; requires disclosure of solicitation intentions and nominee representation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-306618
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBRA
- cik: 0001492298
- company_name: Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492298/000119312522306618/0001193125-22-306618-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492298/000119312522306618/d432317d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update universal proxy rules, advance notice provisions, and other conforming changes (effective 2022-12-15).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-15
  source text: In addition, on December 15, 2022, the Board approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “Bylaws”) to update various provisions of the Bylaws to require parties proposing a nominee for election of a director to comply with the universal proxy rules recently adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492298/000119312522306618/0001193125-22-306618-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.: Filed Articles Supplementary prohibiting election to be subject to Section 3-803 of MGCL (classifying board) without stockholder approval (effective 2022-12-16).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-16
  source text: On December 16, 2022, the Company filed Articles Supplementary with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland reflecting the adoption of this resolution.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492298/000119312522306618/0001193125-22-306618-index.htm

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