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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-013455"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HCMC"
cik: "0000844856"
company_name: "Healthier Choices Management Corp."
filed_at: "2023-04-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T17:51:00.731812+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Healthier Choices amends equity plan, authorizing 225B shares, issuing 107B to employees/officers

## Summary
- Board approved Second Amendment to 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, increasing authorized shares to 225,000,000,000.
- Approximately 107,000,000,000 shares of restricted common stock to be issued to employees and executive officers.
- Vesting begins 12.5% on February 1, 2024, with quarterly increments through September 30, 2025.
- The amendment is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to the 8-K filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-013455
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HCMC
- cik: 0000844856
- company_name: Healthier Choices Management Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/844856/000149315223013455/0001493152-23-013455-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/844856/000149315223013455/form8-k.htm

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