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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001575965-23-000042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GLPI"
cik: "0001575965"
company_name: "Gaming & Leisure Properties, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T13:27:27.911116+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GLPI adopts proxy access bylaws allowing 3% shareholders to nominate directors

## Summary
- Shareholders owning 3%+ of common stock for 3+ years may nominate up to 2 or 20% of board seats.
- A group of up to 20 shareholders can jointly submit proxy access nominations under new Sections 7.11-7.18.
- Bylaws also updated for SEC universal proxy rules, expanding shareholder disclosure and solicitation requirements.
- Proxy access notice must be received 120-150 days before anniversary of prior annual meeting.
- Amendments effective December 7, 2023; full text filed as Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001575965-23-000042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GLPI
- cik: 0001575965
- company_name: Gaming & Leisure Properties, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575965/000157596523000042/0001575965-23-000042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575965/000157596523000042/glpi-20231207.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Gaming & Leisure Properties, Inc.: Amendment and restatement of bylaws to implement a proxy access framework and universal proxy rules (effective 2023-12-07).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-07
  source text: On December 7, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (the “Company”), amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “Second Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective as of December 7, 2023, to, among other things, implement a proxy access framework.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575965/000157596523000042/0001575965-23-000042-index.htm

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