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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-056509"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WKHS"
cik: "0001425287"
company_name: "Workhorse Group Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T09:22:40.503488+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Workhorse adopts proxy access bylaw allowing 3% holders to nominate directors

## Summary
- Board approved Second Amended and Restated Bylaws effective July 7, 2023.
- Proxy access: 3%+ holders for 3+ years (group up to 20) may nominate up to 2 directors.
- Quorum provisions updated to comply with Nevada law concerning broker non-votes.
- Amends meeting procedures and stockholder proposal requirements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-056509
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WKHS
- cik: 0001425287
- company_name: Workhorse Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/1425287/000121390023056509/0001213900-23-056509-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425287/000121390023056509/ea181671-8k_workhorse.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Workhorse Group Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to revise quorum provisions, meeting procedures, stockholder proposals, and add proxy access for director nominations (effective 2023-07-07).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-07
  source text: On July 7, 2023, Workhorse Group Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s bylaws, in the form of the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference (the “Amended Bylaws”), following approval by the Company’s Board of Directors. The Amended Bylaws became effective immediately. The Amended Bylaws revise provisions concerning quorum in accordance with recent amendments to Nevada law concerning the effect of broker non-votes. In addition, the Amended Bylaws amend certain provisions related to meeting procedures and stockholder proposals and add a provision that permits an eligible stockholder or a group of up to twenty eligible stockholders who have continuously held for a period of three years at least three percent of the Company’s outstanding shares entitled to vote in an election of directors to nominate and include in the Company’s annual meeting proxy materials up to two director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425287/000121390023056509/0001213900-23-056509-index.htm

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