WEEKLY AMOUNTS.

SEC. 1822. WEEKLY AMOUNTS. Section 232 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2292) is amended—(1) in subsection (a)—(A) by striking “subsections (b) and (c)” and inserting “subsections (b), (c), and (d)”;(B) by striking “total unemployment” the first place it appears and inserting “unemployment”; and(C) in paragraph (2), by inserting before the period the following: “, except that in the case of an adversely affected worker who is participating in training under this chapter, such income shall not include earnings from work for such week that are equal to or less than the most recent weekly benefit amount of the unemployment insurance payable to the worker for a week of total unemployment preceding the worker’s first exhaustion of unemployment insurance (as determined for purposes of section 231(a)(3)(B))”; and(2) by adding at the end the following:“(d) Election of Trade Readjustment Allowance or Unemployment Insurance.—Notwithstanding section 231(a)(3)(B), an adversely affected worker may elect to receive a trade readjustment allowance instead of unemployment insurance during any week with respect to which the worker—“(1) is entitled to receive unemployment insurance as a result of the establishment by the worker of a new benefit year under State law, based in whole or in part upon part-time or short-term employment in which the worker engaged after the worker’s most recent total separation from adversely affected employment; and“(2) is otherwise entitled to a trade readjustment allowance.”.