---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities."
description: "Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 485"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 485 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cabral-Guevara", "James"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbb8b2b4-350c-4f87-bd9e-3efeff6fe9d3"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb485"
source_hash: "12b0a08bf24c329bbd66e3c219573e824032ac63b2438f057476f081f54985b6"
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-wi"]
---

# Wisconsin SB 485 (2025) — Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities.

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/SB485-ASA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/SB485)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1 — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND — **18–15** (pass) · upper
- CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED — **79–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cabral-Guevara — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators James and Cabral-Guevara; cosponsored by Representatives Dittrich, Petersen, Behnke, Gundrum, Melotik, Mursau, Penterman, Piwowarczyk and Wichgers `introduction`
- **2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-08T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2025-11-14T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2025-11-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a coauthor
- **2025-11-19T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Haywood
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Haywood
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Dittrich
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 79, Noes 20 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Smith, Habush Sinykin, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer, Wall and Wirch
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Point of order that Senate Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 was not germane well taken
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 15
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 1
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-20T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-3-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 184 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-4-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbb8b2b4-350c-4f87-bd9e-3efeff6fe9d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).