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 110 STAT. 2224 PUBLIC LAW 104-193—AUG. 22, 1996 SEC. 325. STATE LAWS PROVTOING EXPEDITED PROCEDURES. (a) STATE LAW REQUIREMENTS. —Section 466 (42 U.S.C. 666), as amended by section 314 of this Act, is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking the first sentence and inserting the following: "Expedited administrative and judicial procedures (including the procedures specified in subsection (c)) for establishing paternity and for establishing, modifying, and enforcing support obligations."; and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection: "(c) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES.— The procedures specified in this subsection are the following: " (1) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION BY STATE AGENCY.— Procedures which give the State agency the authority to take the following actions relating to establishment of paternity or to establishment, modification, or enforcement of support orders, without the necessity of obtaining an order from any other judicial or administrative tribunal, and to recognize and enforce the authority of State agencies of other States to take the following actions: "(A) GENETIC TESTING.—To order genetic testing for the purpose of paternity establishment as provided in section 466(a)(5). "(B) FINANCIAL OR OTHER INFORMATION. — To subpoena any financial or other information needed to establish, modify, or enforce a support order, and to impose penalties for failure to respond to such a subpoena. "(C) RESPONSE TO STATE AGENCY REQUEST.— TO require all entities in the State (including for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental employers) to provide promptly, in response to a request by the State agency of that or any other State administering a program under this part, information on the employment, compensation, and benefits of any individual employed by such entity as an employee or contractor, and to sanction failure to respond to any such request. " (D) ACCESS TO INFORMATION CONTAINED IN CERTAIN RECORDS.—To obtain access, subject to safeguards on privacy and information security, and subject to the nonliability of entities that afford such access under this subparagraph, to information contained in the following records (including automated access, in the case of records maintained in automated data bases): "(i) Records of other State and local government agencies, including— "(I) vital statistics (including records of marriage, birth, and divorce); "(II) State and local tax and revenue records (including information on residence address, employer, income and assets); "(III) records concerning real and titled personal property; "(IV) records of occupational and professional licenses, and records concerning the ownership and control of corporations, partnerships, and other business entities; "(V) employment security records;

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