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cial 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 re-
spond to such a subpoena.
‘‘(C) RESPONSE
TO
STATE
AGENCY
RE-
QUEST.—To require all entities in the State (in-
cluding 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 sanc-
tion failure to respond to any such request.
‘‘(D) ACCESS
TO
CERTAIN
RECORDS.—To
obtain access, subject to safeguards on privacy
and information security, to the following
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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 di-
vorce);
‘‘(II) State and local tax and rev-
enue 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 con-
cerning the ownership and control of
corporations, partnerships, and other
business entities;
‘‘(V) employment security records;
‘‘(VI) records of agencies admin-
istering public assistance programs;
‘‘(VII) records of the motor vehicle
department; and
‘‘(VIII) corrections records.
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‘‘(ii) Certain records held by private
entities, including—
‘‘(I) customer records of public
utilities and cable television compa-
nies; and
‘‘(II) information (including in-
formation on assets and liabilities) on
individuals who owe or are owed sup-
port (or against or with respect to
whom a support obligation is sought)
held by financial institutions (subject
to limitations on liability of such enti-
ties arising from affording such ac-
cess), as provided pursuant to agree-
ments described in subsection (a)(18).
‘‘(E) CHANGE IN PAYEE.—In cases in which
support is subject to an assignment in order to
comply with a requirement imposed pursuant to
part A or section 1912, or to a requirement to
pay through the State disbursement unit estab-
lished pursuant to section 454B, upon providing
notice to obligor and obligee, to direct the obligor
or other payor to change the payee to the appro-
priate government entity.
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‘‘(F) INCOME WITHHOLDING.—To order in-
come withholding in accordance with subsections
(a)(1) and (b) of section 466.
‘‘(G) SECURING ASSETS.—In cases in which
there is a support arrearage, to secure assets to
satisfy the arrearage by—
‘‘(i) intercepting or seizing periodic or
lump-sum payments from—
‘‘(I) a State or local agency, in-
cluding unemployment compensation,
workers’ compensation, and other bene-
fits; and
‘‘(II) judgments, settlements, and
lotteries;
‘‘(ii) attaching and seizing assets of the
obligor held in financial institutions;
‘‘(iii) attaching public and private re-
tirement funds; and
‘‘(iv) imposing liens in accordance
with subsection (a)(4) and, in appropriate
cases, to force sale of property and distribu-
tion of proceeds.
‘‘(H) INCREASE MONTHLY PAYMENTS.—For
the purpose of securing overdue support, to in-
crease the amount of monthly support payments
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to include amounts for arrearages, subject to
such conditions or limitations as the State may
provide.
Such procedures shall be subject to due process safe-
guards, including (as appropriate) requirements for
notice, opportunity to contest the action, and oppor-
tunity for an appeal on the record to an independent
administrative or judicial tribunal.
‘‘(2) SUBSTANTIVE AND PROCEDURAL RULES.—
The expedited procedures required under subsection
(a)(2) shall include the following rules and authority,
applicable with respect to all proceedings to establish
paternity or to establish, modify, or enforce support
orders:
‘‘(A) LOCATOR
INFORMATION; 
PRESUMP-
TIONS CONCERNING NOTICE.—Procedures under
which—
‘‘(i) each party to any paternity or
child support proceeding is required (subject
to privacy safeguards) to file with the tribu-
nal and the State case registry upon entry
of an order, and to update as appropriate,
information on location and identity of the
party, including social security number,
residential and mailing addresses, telephone
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number, driver’s license number, and name,
address, and name and telephone number of
employer; and
‘‘(ii) in any subsequent child support
enforcement action between the parties,
upon sufficient showing that diligent effort
has been made to ascertain the location of
such a party, the tribunal may deem State
due process requirements for notice and
service of process to be met with respect to
the party, upon delivery of written notice to
the most recent residential or employer ad-
dress filed with the tribunal pursuant to
clause (i).
‘‘(B) 
STATEWIDE
JURISDICTION.—Proce-
dures under which—
‘‘(i) the State agency and any admin-
istrative or judicial tribunal with authority
to hear child support and paternity cases
exerts statewide jurisdiction over the par-
ties; and
‘‘(ii) in a State in which orders are is-
sued by courts or administrative tribunals,
a case may be transferred between local ju-
risdictions in the State without need for
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any additional filing by the petitioner, or
service of process upon the respondent, to re-
tain jurisdiction over the parties.
‘‘(3) COORDINATION
WITH
ERISA.—Notwith-
standing subsection (d) of section 514 of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (relating to
effect on other laws), nothing in this subsection shall
be construed to alter, amend, modify, invalidate, im-
pair, or supersede subsections (a), (b), and (c) of such
section 514 as it applies with respect to any proce-
dure referred to in paragraph (1) and any expedited
procedure referred to in paragraph (2), except to the
extent that such procedure would be consistent with
the requirements of section 206(d)(3) of such Act (re-
lating to qualified domestic relations orders) or the
requirements of section 609(a) of such Act (relating to
qualified medical child support orders) if the reference
in such section 206(d)(3) to a domestic relations order
and the reference in such section 609(a) to a medical
child support order were a reference to a support
order referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) relating
to the same matters, respectively.’’.
(b) AUTOMATION OF STATE AGENCY FUNCTIONS.—
Section 454A, as added by section 12344(a)(2) and as
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amended by sections 12311 and 12312(c) of this Act, is
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(h) EXPEDITED ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES.—
The automated system required by this section shall be used,
to the maximum extent feasible, to implement the expedited
administrative procedures required by section 466(c).’’.
CHAPTER 4—PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT
SEC. 12331. STATE LAWS CONCERNING PATERNITY ESTAB-
LISHMENT.
(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 ES-
TABLISHMENT.—
‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT PROCESS AVAILABLE
FROM BIRTH UNTIL AGE 18.—
‘‘(i) Procedures which permit the estab-
lishment 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 pater-
nity 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.
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‘‘(B) PROCEDURES
CONCERNING
GENETIC
TESTING.—
‘‘(i) GENETIC TESTING REQUIRED IN
CERTAIN
CONTESTED
CASES.—Procedures
under which the State is required, in a con-
tested paternity case (unless otherwise
barred by State law) to require the child
and all other parties (other than individ-
uals found under section 454(29) to have
good cause for refusing to cooperate) to sub-
mit 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 set-
ting forth facts establishing a reason-
able possibility of the requisite sexual
contact between the parties; or
‘‘(II) denying paternity, and set-
ting forth facts establishing a reason-
able possibility of the nonexistence of
sexual contact between the parties.
‘‘(ii) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—Proce-
dures which require the State agency, in
any case in which the agency orders genetic
testing—
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‘‘(I) to pay costs of such tests, sub-
ject to recoupment (if the State so
elects) from the alleged father if pater-
nity 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 ACKNOWLEDG-
MENT.—
‘‘(i) SIMPLE
CIVIL
PROCESS.—Proce-
dures for a simple civil process for volun-
tarily acknowledging paternity under which
the State must provide that, before a mother
and a putative father can sign an acknowl-
edgment 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 (in-
cluding, if 1 parent is a minor, any rights
afforded due to minority status) and re-
sponsibilities that arise from, signing the
acknowledgment.
‘‘(ii) 
HOSPITAL-BASED
PROGRAM.—
Such procedures must include a hospital-
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based program for the voluntary acknowl-
edgment of paternity focusing on the period
immediately before or after the birth of a
child, subject to such good cause exceptions,
taking into account the best interests of the
child, as the State may establish.
‘‘(iii) 
PATERNITY
ESTABLISHMENT
SERVICES.—
‘‘(I) STATE-OFFERED SERVICES.—
Such procedures must require the State
agency responsible for maintaining
birth records to offer voluntary pater-
nity 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 specify-
ing the types of other entities that
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may offer voluntary paternity es-
tablishment services, and govern-
ing 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 train-
ing provided by, and evaluate the
provision of such services in the
same manner as the provision of
such services is evaluated by, vol-
untary paternity establishment
programs of hospitals and birth
record agencies.
‘‘(iv) USE
OF
PATERNITY
ACKNOWL-
EDGMENT
AFFIDAVIT.—Such 
procedures
must require the State to develop and use
an affidavit for the voluntary acknowledg-
ment of paternity which includes the mini-
mum requirements of the affidavit developed
by the Secretary under section 452(a)(7) for
the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity,
and to give full faith and credit to such an
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affidavit signed in any other State accord-
ing to its procedures.
‘‘(D) STATUS
OF
SIGNED
PATERNITY
AC-
KNOWLEDGMENT.—
‘‘(i) INCLUSION IN BIRTH RECORDS.—
Procedures under which the name of the fa-
ther shall be included on the record of birth
of the child 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 ju-
dicial or administrative proceeding which
bases a legal finding of paternity on an ad-
mission of paternity by the father and any
other additional showing required by State
law.