---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001702744-23-000063"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMPL"
cik: "0001702744"
company_name: "Simply Good Foods Co"
filed_at: "2023-07-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T06:26:48.971373+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Simply Good Foods amends bylaws to comply with SEC universal proxy rules, effective July 13, 2023

## Summary
- Board adopted amendments to Second Amended and Restated Bylaws on July 13, 2023.
- Changes align advance notice procedures for director nominations with SEC Rule 14a-19 (universal proxy).
- Eliminated requirement to make voting list available at meetings per recent DGCL amendment.
- Includes other technical and conforming changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001702744-23-000063
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMPL
- cik: 0001702744
- company_name: Simply Good Foods Co
- filed_at: 2023-07-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000170274423000063/0001702744-23-000063-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000170274423000063/smpl-20230713.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001702744-23-000063.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Simply Good Foods Co: Amended bylaws to update advance notice procedures for director nominations to reflect Rule 14a-19 universal proxy rules, eliminate voting list availability requirement per DGCL Section 219, and make technical changes (effective 2023-07-13).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-13
  source text: On July 13, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Simply Good Foods Company (“Simply Good Foods” or the “Company”) adopted amendments to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended and restated, the “Bylaws”) in order to: (i) update the procedures and disclosure requirements for director nominations made under the Company’s existing advance notice requirements to reflect the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s adoption of Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), (ii) eliminate the former requirement regarding availability of the voting list during stockholder meetings, consistent with recent amendments to Section 219 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”); and (iii) make other technical and conforming changes. These amendments became effective July 13, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1702744/000170274423000063/0001702744-23-000063-index.htm

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