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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-032543"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNLX"
cik: "0001231457"
company_name: "GENELUX Corp"
filed_at: "2023-09-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T17:21:12.485846+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Genelux adopts 2023 Inducement Plan reserving 1M shares; John Smither elected director

## Summary
- Board approved 2023 Inducement Plan reserving 1,000,000 shares for new-hire equity awards as inducement material under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
- Forms of stock option and restricted stock unit agreements adopted for executive officers and lower-level employees.
- At Sept 11 annual meeting, John Smither elected Class I director with 15,084,240 votes for; 1,748,277 broker non-votes.
- Ratification of Weinberg & Company as independent auditor passed with 16,829,075 votes for, 689 against.
- Plan is substantially similar to the existing stockholder-approved 2022 Equity Incentive Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-032543
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNLX
- cik: 0001231457
- company_name: GENELUX Corp
- filed_at: 2023-09-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1231457/000149315223032543/0001493152-23-032543-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1231457/000149315223032543/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  GENELUX Corp shareholders approved Ratification of the Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-09-11 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-11
  source text: The Company’s stockholders ratified the selection of Weinberg & Company, P.A. by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1231457/000149315223032543/0001493152-23-032543-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  GENELUX Corp shareholders approved Election of Class I Director at the 2023-09-11 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-11
  source text: The Company’s stockholders elected the person listed below as the Class I Director, to serve until the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1231457/000149315223032543/0001493152-23-032543-index.htm

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