---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-005890"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RBCAA"
cik: "0000921557"
company_name: "REPUBLIC BANCORP INC /KY/"
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T07:07:05.878674+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Republic Bancorp shareholders elect all 15 director nominees and ratify auditor at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 15 director nominees elected; votes for ranged from 31.8M to 34.2M, with no director receiving more than 2.5M withheld.
- Ratification of FORVIS, LLP as independent auditor passed with 35,730,446 for, 67,751 against, 59,578 abstain.
- Annual meeting held April 25, 2024; no director received broker non-votes over 1.5M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-005890
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RBCAA
- cik: 0000921557
- company_name: REPUBLIC BANCORP INC /KY/
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921557/000155837024005890/0001558370-24-005890-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921557/000155837024005890/rbcaa-20240425x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  REPUBLIC BANCORP INC /KY/ shareholders approved Ratify the appointment of FORVIS, LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. at the 2024-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-25
  source text: Proposal 2: To ratify the appointment of FORVIS, LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921557/000155837024005890/0001558370-24-005890-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  REPUBLIC BANCORP INC /KY/ shareholders approved Elect the 15 director nominees to the Board, each to serve until the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders and their successors are elected and qualified or their earlier resignation or removal. at the 2024-04-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-25
  source text: Proposal 1: To elect the 15 director nominees to the Board, each to serve until the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders and their successors are elected and qualified or their earlier resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921557/000155837024005890/0001558370-24-005890-index.htm

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