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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-041589"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ENSC"
cik: "0001716947"
company_name: "Ensysce Biosciences, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T12:47:24.597552+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ensysce Biosciences reduces stockholder quorum to 1/3 of votes, effective Nov 1, 2024

## Summary
- Bylaw amendment lowers quorum from majority to 1/3 of total votes entitled to be cast.
- Change approved by board on October 17, 2024; effective November 1, 2024.
- No other amendments or fiscal year changes were reported.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-041589
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ENSC
- cik: 0001716947
- company_name: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1716947/000149315224041589/0001493152-24-041589-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1716947/000149315224041589/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-24-041589.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.: Reduced stockholder meeting quorum requirement from majority to 1/3 of total votes entitled to be cast (effective 2024-11-01).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-11-01
  source text: On October 17, 2024, Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. (the “ Company ” or “ we ”) amended its bylaws, effective November 1, 2024, to reduce the number of shares needed to constitute a quorum at meetings of stockholders from a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast to 1/3 rd of the total votes entitled to be cast.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1716947/000149315224041589/0001493152-24-041589-index.htm

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