# Amendments To Rules On Shareholder Proposals
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final Rule. · Published 1998-05-28 · Effective 1998-06-29 · 63 FR 29106
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-14121
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 29106
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 240
- **Publication date:** 1998-05-28
- **Effective date:** 1998-06-29
- **Docket:** Release No. 34-40018
## Abstract

The Securities and Exchange Commission (``we'' or ``Commission'') is adopting amendments to its rules on shareholder proposals. The amendments recast rule 14a-8 into a Question & Answer Format that both shareholders and companies should find easier to follow, and make other modifications to existing interpretations of the rule. We are also amending rule 14a-4 to provide clearer ground rules for companies' exercise of discretionary voting authority, and making related amendments to rule 14a-5.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/05/28/98-14121/amendments-to-rules-on-shareholder-proposals)
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