IMPROVED COORDINATION OF URBAN POLICY.

SEC. 921. IMPROVED COORDINATION OF URBAN POLICY. Title VII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 702(d), by striking paragraph (8) and inserting the following: “(8) increase coordination among Federal programs that seek to promote job opportunities and skills, decent and afford-able housing, public safety, access to health care, educational opportunities, and fiscal soundness for urban communities and their residents.”; (2) in section 703(a)— (A) by striking “during February 1978, and during February of every even-numbered year thereafter,” and inserting “, not later than June 1, 1993, and not later than the first day of June of every odd-numbered year thereafter,”; and (B) in paragraph (8), by striking “such” and all that follows through the end of the sentence and inserting “legislative or administrative proposals— “(A) to promote coordination among Federal programs to assist urban areas; “(B) to enhance the fiscal capacity of fiscally distressed urban areas; “(C) to promote job opportunities in economically distressed urban areas and to enhance the job skills of residents of such areas; “(D) to generate decent and affordable housing; “(E) to reduce racial tensions and to combat racial and ethnic violence in urban areas; 106 STAT. 3884 “(F) to combat urban drug abuse and drug-related crime and violence; “(G) to promote the delivery of health care to low- income communities in urban areas; “(H) to expand educational opportunities in urban areas; and “(I) to achieve the goals of the national urban policy”; and (3) by adding at the end of section 703 the following new subsection: “(d) Referral.—The National Urban Policy Report shall, when transmitted to Congress, be referred in the Senate to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and in the House of Representatives to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.”.