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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-002809"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DARE"
cik: "0001401914"
company_name: "Dare Bioscience, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T07:06:04.351122+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Daré Bioscience amends bylaws to update stockholder nomination procedures and other governance provisions

## Summary
- Bylaws amended effective Jan 24, 2023 to update advance notice procedures for director nominations and stockholder proposals.
- Added requirement for stockholders to comply with Rule 14a-19; non-compliance renders nominees ineligible for election.
- Prohibits nominating more candidates than board seats; requires stockholder or representative to appear at meeting.
- Updated forum selection provision to require certain actions be brought in Delaware courts; stockholder consents to personal jurisdiction.
- Other amendments to conform to Delaware law and make administrative, clarifying, and modernizing changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-002809
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DARE
- cik: 0001401914
- company_name: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-27T23:59:59+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/1401914/000149315223002809/0001493152-23-002809-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401914/000149315223002809/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-002809.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Dare Bioscience, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update advance notice procedures, stockholder meeting provisions, officer duties, forum selection, and other conforming changes (effective 2023-01-24).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-24
  source text: On January 24, 2023, the board of directors of Daré Bioscience, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s amended and restated by-laws effective as of such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401914/000149315223002809/0001493152-23-002809-index.htm

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