republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/sb-485.md

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Bill	Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities.	Relating to: video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities.	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2025	SB 485	Wisconsin SB 485 (2025)	bill		enacted	Cabral-Guevara James	2	37	4	2025-10-02T05:00:00+00:00	2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cbb8b2b4-350c-4f87-bd9e-3efeff6fe9d3	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb485	12b0a08bf24c329bbd66e3c219573e824032ac63b2438f057476f081f54985b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/cbb8b2b4-350c-4f87-bd9e-3efeff6fe9d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).