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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001467858-25-000112"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GM"
cik: "0001467858"
company_name: "General Motors Co"
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:43:17.806303+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GM shareholders approve officer liability limit, elect all directors, reject GHG proposal

## Summary
- Approved Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation limiting officer liability per Delaware law (646.9M for, 86.6M against).
- All 11 director nominees elected; Patricia Russo received lowest support (674.3M for, 59.7M against).
- Ratified Ernst & Young as auditor for 2025 (809.0M for, 5.9M against).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (665.1M for, 65.7M against).
- Shareholder proposal for supply chain GHG emissions report defeated (101.3M for, 625.7M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001467858-25-000112
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GM
- cik: 0001467858
- company_name: General Motors Co
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000146785825000112/0001467858-25-000112-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000146785825000112/gm-20250603.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001467858-25-000112
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001467858-25-000112.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001467858-25-000112.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  General Motors Co: Amended and restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit officer liability, remove obsolete provisions, and provide clarifications (effective 2025-06-03).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-03
  source text: On June 3, 2025, General Motors Company (the "Company") held its 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting"). At the Annual Meeting, GM shareholders approved the adoption of the Company's amended and restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation") to limit the liability of certain officers of the Company in specific circumstances as permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law, remove inapplicable and obsolete provisions, and provide clarification in certain provisions
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000146785825000112/0001467858-25-000112-index.htm

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