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Amend CSSB 156 as follows:                                                   
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, at the end of added Section 
531.453(2)(D), Government Code (page 1, line 50), strike "and".
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 531.453, 
Government Code (page 1, between lines 50 and 51), insert the 
following:
		(3)  require that nurses who provide services through 
the program:   
			(A)  receive training from the office of the 
attorney general at least once each year on procedures by which a 
person may voluntarily acknowledge the paternity of a child and on 
the availability of child support services from the office;
			(B)  provide a mother with information about the 
rights, responsibilities, and benefits of establishing the 
paternity of her child, if appropriate;
			(C)  provide assistance to a mother and the 
alleged father of her child if the mother and alleged father seek to 
voluntarily acknowledge paternity of the child, if appropriate; and
			(D)  provide information to a mother about the 
availability of child support services from the office of the 
attorney general; and
	(3)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 531.453, 
Government Code (page 1, line 51), strike "(3)" and insert "(4)".
	(4)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 531.459(b), 
Government Code (page 3, line 14), between "services" and the 
underlined semicolon, insert "and, of that number, the number of 
mothers who established the paternity of an alleged father as a 
result of services provided under the program".
	(5)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 
531.459(b)(2), Government Code (page 3, line 17), strike 
"531.453(3)" and substitute "531.453(4)".