Bill would require truthful 'reef-safe' sunscreen labeling, student sponsors praised
AB 17-44 would require products marketed as 'reef safe' or 'reef friendly' to be free of specific chemicals that harm marine ecosystems; the author said the measure clarifies labeling rather than banning chemicals and had no opposition in committee.
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Assemblymember Addis presented AB 17-44, the CLEAR Labels Act, a transparency measure aimed at sunscreen labeling. "If products are marketed as reef safe or reef friendly, that it does not contain these chemicals," Addis said, framing the bill as a consumer-protection transparency effort rather than a ban.
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