UNEMPL INS-MISCONDUCT-KNOWING

Amends provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act regarding ineligibility for benefits because of a discharge for misconduct by changing the elements of the definition of "misconduct" as follows: by requiring that a violation constituting misconduct be knowing (rather than deliberate and willful); by providing that a violation of a reasonable rule or policy has harmed the employing unit or another employee or other employees (rather than the employing unit or other employees); and by providing that a violation is knowing when an individual acts deliberately to violate the rule or policy, is consciously aware that his or her conduct will violate the rule or policy, or is consciously aware that his or her conduct is practically certain to violate the rule or policy.