# Facilitating Shareholder Director Nominations
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final rule; notice of effective date. · Published 2011-09-20 · Effective 2010-09-20 · 76 FR 58100
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-24118
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 58100
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 200
- **Publication date:** 2011-09-20
- **Effective date:** 2010-09-20
- **Docket:** Release Nos. 33-9259
## Abstract

This release provides notice of the effective date of the amendment to Exchange Act Rule 14a-8, the shareholder proposal rule, which will require companies to include in their proxy materials, under certain circumstances, shareholder proposals that seek to establish a procedure in the company's governing documents for the inclusion of one or more shareholder director nominees in the company's proxy materials. This release also provides notice of the effective date of related rule changes adopted concurrently with the amendment to Rule 14a-8.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/09/20/2011-24118/facilitating-shareholder-director-nominations)
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