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 110 STAT. 2228 PUBLIC LAW 104-193—AUG. 22, 1996 "(ii) HOSPITAL-BASED PROGRAM.—Such procedures must include a hospital-based program for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity focusing on the period immediately before or after the birth of a child, "(iii) PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT SERVICES.— "(I) STATE-OFFERED SERVICES.— Such procedures must require the State agency responsible for maintaining birth records to offer voluntary paternity establishment services. "(II) REGULATIONS.— " (aa) SERVICES OFFERED BY HOSPITALS AND BIRTH RECORD AGENCIES.— The Secretary shall prescribe regulations governing voluntary paternity establishment services offered by hospitals and birth record agencies. "(bb) SERVICES OFFERED BY OTHER ENTITIES.— The Secretary shall prescribe regulations specifying the types of other entities that may offer voluntary paternity establishment services, and governing the provision of such services, which shall include a requirement that such an entity must use the same notice provisions used by, use the same materials used by, provide the personnel providing such services with the same training provided by, and evaluate the provision of such services in the same manner as the provision of such services is evaluated by, voluntary paternity establishment programs of hospitals and birth record agencies. "(iv) USE OF PATERNITY ACKNOWLEDGMENT AFFIDAVIT.—Such procedures must require the State to develop and use an affidavit for the volimtary acknowledgment of paternity which includes the minimum requirements of the affidavit specified by the Secretary under section 452(a)(7) for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, and to give full faith and credit to such an affidavit signed in any other State according to its procedures. "(D) STATUS OF SIGNED PATERNITY ACKNOW- LEDGMENT.— " (i) INCLUSION IN BIRTH RECORDS.— Procedures under which the name of the father shall be included on the record of birth of the child of immarried parents only if— "(I) the father and mother have signed a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity; or "(II) a court or an administrative agency of competent jurisdiction has issued an adjudication of paternity. Nothing in this clause shall preclude a State agency from obtaining an admission of paternity from the father for submission in a judicial or administrative proceeding, or prohibit the issuance of an order in a judicial or administrative proceeding which bases a legal finding of paternity on an admission of paternity

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