1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Child Welfare Data Modernization Act . 2. Temporarily enhanced Federal match for certain State or tribal expenditures for child welfare data reporting (a) In general The percentages which shall be in effect under section 474(a)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act with respect to eligible child welfare data reporting expenditures of a State, Indian tribe, tribal organization, or tribal consortium in the applicable period shall— (1) be 75 percent; and (2) apply with respect to the expenditures, without regard to whether the systems for which the expenditures are made may be used with respect to foster or adoptive children other than those on behalf of whom foster care maintenance payments or adoption assistance payments are made under a State or tribal plan approved under this part. (b) Treatment of digital system as mechanized system The digital system described in subsection (c)(2) of this section shall be considered a mechanized system for purposes of subparagraphs (C) and (D) of section 474(a)(3) of the Social Security Act. (c) Meaning of terms (1) In general Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the terms used in this section shall have the meanings the terms would have if this section were in part E of title IV of the Social Security Act. (2) Eligible child welfare data reporting expenditures In subsection (a) of this section, the term eligible child welfare data reporting expenditures means expenditures as are for the planning, design, development, update, or installation of statewide or tribal digital data collection and information retrieval systems (including for hardware components for the systems), but only to the extent that the systems— (A) meet the requirements imposed by the regulations prescribed under section 479(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, as in effect on January 13, 2017