---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing authority commissioner compensation."
description: "Increases the per diem paid to a commissioner of a housing authority from $25 to an amount up to $100."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Indiana SB 15 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies", "HOUSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Soliday", "James Tomes", "Lonnie Randolph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31169061-ccf2-4078-a5d3-81affc917bc0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/15"
source_hash: "96f4970b327344a53f63a568bab8b9e025110ae14fe262bce118a68fd3384312"
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-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 15 (2023) — Housing authority commissioner compensation.

Increases the per diem paid to a commissioner of a housing authority from $25 to an amount up to $100.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0015/versions/SB0015.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0015/versions/SB0015.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0015/versions/SB0015.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0015/versions/SB0015.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 15 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Harold Slager — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Randolph Lonnie M
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Senator Tomes added as second author
- **2023-02-20** Senator Becker added as coauthor
- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 148: yeas 44, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Soliday
- **2023-02-21** Cosponsors: Representatives Jackson, Slager, Harris
- **2023-02-22** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 271: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 311: yeas 45, nays 3
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 16 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31169061-ccf2-4078-a5d3-81affc917bc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).