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accession: "0001384101-23-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VCYT"
cik: "0001384101"
company_name: "VERACYTE, INC."
filed_at: "2023-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T17:46:22.852573+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veracyte adopts amended bylaws for universal proxy rules and DGCL updates

## Summary
- Board approved amended bylaws on Feb 9, 2023, effective immediately.
- Adds requirements for stockholder nominees under SEC Rule 14a-19 universal proxy.
- Enhances advance notice provisions: additional disclosures, nominee interview requirements, and proxy card color rule.
- Conforms adjournment and electronic notice provisions to recent DGCL amendments.
- Includes emergency bylaw and stockholder list publication provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001384101-23-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VCYT
- cik: 0001384101
- company_name: VERACYTE, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-02-10T23:59:59+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/1384101/000138410123000007/0001384101-23-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384101/000138410123000007/vcyt-20230209.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  VERACYTE, INC.: Amended and restated bylaws to conform to Delaware law changes and universal proxy rules, updating advance notice, proxy, and emergency provisions (effective 2023-02-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-09
  source text: On February 9, 2023, in connection with the effectiveness of new Securities and Exchange Commission rules regarding universal proxy cards, certain recent changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) and a periodic review of the bylaws of Veracyte, Inc. (“Veracyte”), Veracyte’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved and adopted Veracyte’s amended and restated bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became immediately effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1384101/000138410123000007/0001384101-23-000007-index.htm

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