Bill Name: Senate Bill 130 (SB 130)

Primary Sponsors: Sen. Lisa Frizell, Sen. Cathy Kipp, Rep. Sheila Lieder

Status: 02/25/2026 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health & Human Services

AmSpa’s Take: There has been a growing national trend to regulate and license medical spas and aesthetic practices. This year alone, several states have introduced similar legislation. 

Analysis: Currently in Colorado, as in most states, medical spas are regulated the same as other medical practices. If passed, SB 130 would create reporting and practice requirements for medical spas.

Under SB 130, a medical spa is defined to mean a facility or practice that offers medical health care services, provides injections of prescription medication, and holds itself out as providing cosmetic, aesthetic, wellness, longevity, or lifestyle treatments. 

Practices that qualify as medical spas would be prohibited from doing the following:

• Acquire a prescription drug from a person not legally authorized to distribute or transfer them;
• Fail to follow manufacturer requirements, federal or state law, or generally accepted standards in storing, handling, preparing or administering prescription drugs;
• Allow individuals to prescribe or administer drugs outside their scope of practice;
• Represent that a prescription drug:
  • Is safe or effective in a manner inconsistent with federal law or the FDA approved label;
  • Sponsorship, approval, characteristics, ingredients, uses, or benefits it does not have;
  • Is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it is not; or
• Fail to designate a licensed prescriber to provide oversight of the prescription drugs used at the medical spa. 

Medical spas are also required to document patient serious adverse events that result from prescription drugs administered at the medical spa. In this case “serious adverse events” are those that result in death, a life-threatening condition, inpatient hospitalization, or a persistent or significant disability. They also include events that require a medical intervention to prevent these outcomes. These records must be provided to the attorney general or district attorney upon request. The serious adverse event records are still confidential and are not made public.

Of note, very similar bills has been introduced in Indiana, Iowa, Arizona, and Florida. This one differs in not requiring a medical spa to register or obtain a separate license. If you would like additional information, to read the language of this bill or to contact the sponsors or committee, you can find the information you need through this link: SB 130.