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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-020319"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCHW"
cik: "0000316709"
company_name: "SCHWAB CHARLES CORP"
filed_at: "2023-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T05:48:08.233164+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Charles Schwab amends bylaws to enhance meeting flexibility and director nominee requirements

## Summary
- Board approved amendment and restatement of Bylaws, effective Jan 26, 2023.
- Provides flexibility to cancel, postpone, or reschedule stockholder meetings under Delaware law.
- Requires stockholder soliciting proxies to use a proxy card color other than white (reserved for Board).
- Adds Section 2.12 requiring nominees to consent to serve, complete questionnaires, and comply with governance policies.
- Conforms to recent DGCL amendments on adjournment, proxy voting, and committee authority.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-020319
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCHW
- cik: 0000316709
- company_name: SCHWAB CHARLES CORP
- filed_at: 2023-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/316709/000119312523020319/0001193125-23-020319-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/316709/000119312523020319/d405688d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-020319
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-020319.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SCHWAB CHARLES CORP: Board approved amendment and restatement of bylaws with changes including meeting flexibility, DGCL conforming updates, proxy rules, director requirements, and other clarifications (effective 2023-01-26).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-26
  source text: On January 26, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Charles Schwab Corporation (“CSC”) approved the amendment and restatement of CSC’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/316709/000119312523020319/0001193125-23-020319-index.htm

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