In plain terms
Forty five days is a ceiling, not a schedule. The clock is not tied to a state release date, because DROP is continuous: consumer requests arrive all the time, and a broker downloads on its own clock as long as no more than 45 days passes between runs. One run means download the current lists, standardize and hash your own records, match, decide what happens to each match, and upload a status for every work item you were given. Then the interval starts again.
What it means for a registered broker
Treat the cycle as a calendar item with a named owner, not a task somebody remembers. The part that slips is rarely the download. It is the review step in the middle, where a person has to look at the matches and decide. Leave room for it. Leave room after the upload too, because a status file is only queued when it is accepted, and record level errors come back afterwards. A cycle that starts on day 44 has no room left for a correction.
- Where it comes from
- Delete Act, SB 362 (2023)