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 PUBLIC LAW 104-193—AUG. 22, 1996 110 STAT. 2227 extent feasible, to implement the expedited administrative procedures required by section 466(c).". Subtitle D—Paternity Establishment SEC. 331. STATE LAWS CONCERNING PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT. (a) STATE LAWS REQUIRED.— Section 466(a)(5) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(5)) is amended to read as follows: " (5) PROCEDURES CONCERNING PATERNITY ESTAB- LISHMENT.— "(A) ESTABLISHMENT PROCESS AVAILABLE PROM BIRTH UNTIL AGE 18.— "(i) Procedures which permit the establishment of the paternity of a child at any time before the child attains 18 years of age. "(ii) As of August 16, 1984, clause (i) shall also apply to a child for whom paternity has not been established or for whom a paternity action was brought but dismissed because a statute of limitations of less than 18 years was then in effect in the State. " (B) PROCEDURES CONCERNING GENETIC TESTING.— "(i) GENETIC TESTING REQUIRED IN CERTAIN CON- TESTED CASES.— Procedures under which the State is required, in a contested paternity case (unless otherwise barred by State law) to require the child and all other parties (other than individuals found under section 454(29) to have good cause and other exceptions for refusing to cooperate) to submit to genetic tests upon the request of any such party, if the request is supported by a sworn statement by the party— "(I) alleging paternity, and setting forth facts establishing a reasonable possibility of the requisite sexual contact between the parties; or "(II) denying paternity, and setting forth facts establishing a reasonable possibility of the nonexistence of sexual contact between the parties. "(ii) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.— Procedures which require the State agency, in any case in which the agency orders genetic testing— "(I) to pay costs of such tests, subject to recoupment (if the State so elects) from the alleged father if paternity is established; and "(II) to obtain additional testing in any case if an original test result is contested, upon request and advance payment by the contestant. "(C) VOLUNTARY PATERNITY ACKNOWLEDGMENT. — "(i) SIMPLE CIVIL PROCESS. —Procedures for a simple civil process for voluntarily acknowledging paternity under which the State must provide that, before a mother and a putative father can sign an acknowledgment of paternity, the mother and the putative father must be given notice, orally and in writing, of the alternatives to, the legal consequences of, and the rights (including, if 1 parent is a minor, any rights afforded due to minority status) and responsibilities that arise from, signing the acknowledgment.

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