Unemployment insurance: retraining benefits.

Existing law provides for unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law declares that it is the policy of this state to assist these individuals by providing unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and other federally funded unemployment benefits, including those available under the federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended by the federal Trade Act of 2002, during a period of retraining. This bill would additionally specify that it is the policy of the state to assist unemployed individuals by providing retraining benefits available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.