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accession: "0001564590-22-035903"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "M"
cik: "0000794367"
company_name: "Macy's, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T22:08:15.206541+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Macy's board amends bylaw advance notice window to 120-90 days prior to annual meeting

## Summary
- Amends advance notice deadline for director nominations and business proposals: must be received 120-90 days before annual meeting anniversary (was 60 days).
- Also makes conforming changes to address Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act for universal proxy.
- The amendment was approved by the Board on October 28, 2022 and is effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-035903
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: M
- cik: 0000794367
- company_name: Macy's, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/794367/000156459022035903/0001564590-22-035903-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/794367/000156459022035903/m-8k_20221028.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-22-035903.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Macy's, Inc.: Amended advance notice provisions to change the timing for stockholder director nominations and business proposals from not less than 60 days before the annual meeting to a window of not earlier than 120 days and not later than 90 days prior to the one-year anniversary of the prior annual meeting (effective 2022-10-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-10-28
  source text: On October 28, 2022, the Board of Directors of Macy’s, Inc. (“Macy’s” or the “Company”) approved an amendment to the advance notice provisions of the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company to change the timing of advance notice by stockholders required to make director nominations or bring business before an annual meeting of stockholders from not less than 60 days before the annual meeting to not earlier than 120 days and not later than 90 days prior to the one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (subject to adjustment if the scheduled annual meeting date differs from the anniversary date by more than 30 days).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/794367/000156459022035903/0001564590-22-035903-index.htm

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