---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-141780"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHH"
cik: "0001046311"
company_name: "CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE"
filed_at: "2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T14:16:47.310480+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Choice Hotels shareholders approve officer exculpation, elect directors at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; votes for ranged from 43.1M to 45.1M, broker non-votes 2.26M.
- Amendment to certificate of incorporation to permit officer exculpation approved: 43.4M for, 1.7M against.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 44.8M for, 359,721 against.
- Ratified Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2024: 47.3M for, 146,598 against.
- Board adopted amended bylaws updating nomination procedures, universal proxy rules, and other administrative changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-141780
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHH
- cik: 0001046311
- company_name: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE
- filed_at: 2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/d838352d8k.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 1079fb5ec640d7818934956974dbcedc5c148dc1
  claim: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE: Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation to permit exculpation of officers (effective 2024-05-16).
  evidence_excerpt: On May 16, 2024, Choice Hotels International, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) at which the Company’s shareholders voted, among other things, to approve an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide for the exculpation of certain of the Company’s officers from liability in certain circumstances, as permitted by Delaware law
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm
- claim_id: efc0ec0a2f60f08ec2a0bf57c28659b3ba56049b
  claim: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE: Amendment and restatement of bylaws updating universal proxy rules, conforming to Delaware law, committee procedures, stock certificate signing, and administrative changes (effective 2024-05-16).
  evidence_excerpt: On May 15, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company approved an amendment and restatement of the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (as so amended and restated, the “Amended Bylaws”), effective as of noon on May 16, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm
- claim_id: 0e841c95497de7d273193dcddc49d8d8fc48b04a
  claim: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE shareholders approved Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation to permit exculpation of officers.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 2 The Company’s shareholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to permit the exculpation of officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm
- claim_id: 20a2f79fd3569a2af785994c8b5537bd3b091a50
  claim: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE shareholders approved Advisory vote on executive compensation.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 3 The Company’s shareholders approved an advisory vote on executive compensation of the Company’s named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm
- claim_id: a96ec224f755922ab7eca7a3b1ccccae3dd55bc8
  claim: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE shareholders approved Election of eleven directors.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 1 The Company’s shareholders elected the following eleven directors to hold office for a term of one year ending at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until their respective successors are elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm
- claim_id: efe0076faf04b0ce8e03e0f95011bf2142e82783
  claim: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-12-31 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 4 The Company’s shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000119312524141780/0001193125-24-141780-index.htm

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