---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-204004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMH"
cik: "0001562401"
company_name: "American Homes 4 Rent"
filed_at: "2023-08-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T05:59:09.564387+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Homes 4 Rent amends bylaws to allow virtual annual meetings and update proxy rules

## Summary
- Effective August 1, 2023, Board approved Amended and Restated Bylaws.
- Article II, Section 1 now permits virtual-only annual shareholder meetings under Maryland law.
- Article II, Section 11 revised to comply with universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19), including nomination compliance and white proxy card designation for Board.
- Amendments also prohibit additional or substitute nominations after the nomination period expires and clarify treatment of defective nominations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-204004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMH
- cik: 0001562401
- company_name: American Homes 4 Rent
- filed_at: 2023-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562401/000119312523204004/0001193125-23-204004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562401/000119312523204004/d483509d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  American Homes 4 Rent: Amended Bylaws to allow virtual annual meetings and comply with universal proxy rules (effective 2023-08-01).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-01
  source text: Effective August 1, 2023, the Board of Trustees of American Homes 4 Rent, or AMH, approved Amended and Restated Bylaws. The revisions to the Amended and Restated Bylaws include changes to Article II, Section 1 to reflect the ability of AMH under Maryland law to hold virtual annual meetings of shareholders, and changes to Article II, Section 11 to address procedural issues related to the new universal proxy rules of Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act of 1934
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562401/000119312523204004/0001193125-23-204004-index.htm

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