republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ajr-16.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sunscreen: ingredients and filters."
description: "This measure would urge the United States Congress to explore policy options to improve the timeliness of the United States Food and Drug Administration's approval pathways for sunscreen ingredients and filters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AJR 16"
citation: "California AJR 16 (20232024)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Sunscreen", "ingredients and filters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-04-18"
last_action: "2024-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ae7fc51-146f-4740-a979-48b58a3698a5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR16"
source_hash: "29b71fe553b89418758c66e7919a16a59814fc9b4ea739e44b8b7d3939561346"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AJR 16 (20232024) — Sunscreen: ingredients and filters.

This measure would urge the United States Congress to explore policy options to improve the timeliness of the United States Food and Drug Administration's approval pathways for sunscreen ingredients and filters.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **04/18/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR16&version=20230AJR1699INT)
2. **08/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR16&version=20230AJR1697CHP)
3. **AJR16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR16)
4. **08/26/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AJR16&version=20230AJR1698ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AJR16 Low et al. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- AJR 16 Low Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Essayli — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-04-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2024-04-19** From printer.
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-01** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-07-01** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6116.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-07-02** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2024-08-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-14** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-22** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5295.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2024-08-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-28** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 4 p.m.
- **2024-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 199, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ae7fc51-146f-4740-a979-48b58a3698a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).