(a) This section applies only to training approved under Section 236(a)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2296(a)(1)).
(b) An otherwise eligible individual may not be denied benefits for a week:
(1) that the individual was in training;
(2) that the individual left work to enter training if the work the individual left was not suitable employment; or
(3) because of the application to the week in training of a provision of this subtitle or a federal unemployment compensation law relating to the individual’s:
(A) availability for work;
(B) active search for work; or
(C) refusal to accept work.

(c) For the purposes of Subsection (b), “suitable employment” means work for an individual that:
(1) is of a skill level substantially equal to or higher than that of the individual’s past adversely affected employment, as that term is used by the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2101 et seq.); and
(2) pays wages that are not less than 80 percent of the individual’s average weekly wage as determined for the purposes of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2101 et seq.).