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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2968 
To provide for the conduct of demonstration projects to provide coordinated 
case management services for TANF recipients. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 8, 2015 
Mr. YOUNG of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide for the conduct of demonstration projects to 
provide coordinated case management services for TANF 
recipients. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coordinating Assist-
ance for TANF Recipients Act’’. 
SEC. 2. COORDINATED CASE MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRA-
TION PROJECTS. 
Section 403 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
603) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(c) COORDINATED
CASE
MANAGEMENT
DEM-
ONSTRATION PROJECTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make 
grants to States to conduct demonstration projects 
designed to implement and evaluate strategies to 
provide coordinated case management to help indi-
viduals receiving assistance under a State program 
funded under this part or any other State program 
funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined 
in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)) increase their employ-
ment and self-sufficiency. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary shall require each State that applies for a 
grant under this paragraph to do the following: 
‘‘(A) Describe how, using the funds pro-
vided under this paragraph, the State will de-
velop an individual responsibility plan in accord-
ance with section 408(b) for each recipient re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection. 
‘‘(B) Describe how the State will coordi-
nate the development of this plan with other 
programs and agencies providing benefits and 
services to the individual to help the recipient 
increase the employment and self-sufficiency of 
the recipient. 
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‘‘(C) Describe how the State will coordi-
nate the delivery of the benefits and services to 
the recipient (which may include the use of 
home visiting models). 
‘‘(D) Describe how the State will meet 
with the recipient at least monthly to review the 
employment status of the recipient and status 
of the participation of the recipient in other ac-
tivities, the benefits and services the recipient is 
receiving, and the progress of the recipient to-
ward meeting the goals specified in the indi-
vidual responsibility plan of the recipient. 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—A State to which a grant 
is made under this subsection may use the grant for 
the following purposes: 
‘‘(A) To support coordinated case man-
agers in completing the activities specified in 
paragraph (2). 
‘‘(B) To provide short-term transitional 
benefits and services to individuals who, due to 
increased employment or earnings, may face 
disincentives to increasing work or earnings due 
to the phase-out or loss of certain benefits. 
‘‘(C) To ensure that recipients of services 
under the demonstration project have a choice 
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between 2 or more coordinated case manage-
ment service providers. 
‘‘(D) To improve coordination between pro-
grams serving recipients who are part of the 
demonstration project. 
‘‘(E) To improve coordination between in-
formation technology and other systems to de-
liver better benefits or services to the recipient, 
except that not more than 10 percent of the 
grant amount may be used for this purpose. 
‘‘(4) EVALUATION.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with each State conducting a demonstration 
project under this subsection, shall conduct a high- 
quality evaluation of the demonstration project in 
accordance with the following: 
‘‘(A) EVALUATOR
QUALIFICATIONS.—The 
Secretary may not enter into a contract with an 
evaluator unless the evaluator has demonstrated 
experience in conducting rigorous evaluations of 
program effectiveness including, where available 
and appropriate, well-implemented randomized 
controlled trials. 
‘‘(B) METHODOLOGIES TO BE USED.—The 
evaluation of a demonstration project shall use 
experimental designs using random assignment 
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