---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-021043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SR"
cik: "0001126956"
company_name: "SPIRE INC"
filed_at: "2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T22:49:08.057468+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Spire Inc. amends bylaws to update shareholder proposal procedures and universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Board amended and restated bylaws effective July 27, 2023.
- Revised procedures for shareholder proposals and nominations to align with universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19).
- Requires shareholders soliciting proxies to use a proxy card color other than white.
- Incorporates other ministerial, clarifying, and conforming changes to the bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-021043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SR
- cik: 0001126956
- company_name: SPIRE INC
- filed_at: 2023-07-28T23:59:59+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/1126956/000143774923021043/0001437749-23-021043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774923021043/spre20230728_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-021043.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SPIRE INC: Amended and restated bylaws to revise shareholder proposal and director nomination procedures in light of universal proxy rules, require proxy card color other than white, and incorporate ministerial changes (effective 2023-07-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-27
  source text: On July 27, 2023, the Board of Directors of Spire Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s bylaws, effective immediately, to (i) revise the procedures and requirements for a shareholder to propose business or make a nomination at a meeting of shareholders to, among other things, implement and update the procedure and information requirements for the nominations of persons for election to the Company’s Board of Directors, including to address matters relating to the new universal proxy rules set forth in the recently adopted Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) require that any shareholder soliciting proxies from other shareholders use a proxy card color other than white, and (iii) incorporate other ministerial, clarifying and conforming changes to the bylaws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774923021043/0001437749-23-021043-index.htm

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