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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001530979-25-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HNST"
cik: "0001530979"
company_name: "Honest Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T22:20:27.901191+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Honest Company amends bylaws to update director nomination and advance notice rules

## Summary
- Amendments require nominees to provide information on eligibility, independence, and background within specified timing.
- Revisions clarify when a stockholder may nominate a director at a special meeting.
- Bylaws updated to address replacement of uncertificated shares and expense advancement for directors and officers.
- Changes approved by Board on March 6, 2025; effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001530979-25-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HNST
- cik: 0001530979
- company_name: Honest Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- 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/1530979/000153097925000024/0001530979-25-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530979/000153097925000024/hnst-20250306.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001530979-25-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Honest Company, Inc.: Amended the bylaws to update advance notice informational requirements, clarify director nomination at special meetings, provide for replacement of uncertificated shares, and clarify expense advancement for directors or executive officers (effective 2025-03-06).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-03-06
  source text: On March 6, 2025, the Board of Directors of The Honest Company, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amendments to the Company’s bylaws (as so amended, the “Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1530979/000153097925000024/0001530979-25-000024-index.htm

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