My plan is to request the clearance if I have received it prior to entering class B, but I'm wondering what the SOP is these days for VFR into class B.

Request clearance into the Bravo airspace. Do not assume that clearance
into a point within Bravo airspace, or that would require transit of the
Bravo airspace, is an implicit clearance into it. It is not. You must
hear the magic words "Cleared into the Bravo".

Jose
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