E Requiring the commissioner of economic security to administer a temporary birth and adoption leave program to provide paid parental leave from employment to eligible employees; requiring funding of the program through an employer assessment under the reemployment insurance (unemployment compensation) program, providing for determination and collection of the special assessment and disbursement of special assessment funds, requiring the crediting of money collected to a special account to be known as the birth and adoption leave fund to provide for the program; specifying eligibility for the leave benefits relating to the reemployment insurance program, requiring application to the department of economic security and providing for payment of the benefit amount (ja)