A selective list of bills and briefings Wednesday at the Capitol:

• House Finance will meet to, among other things, consider measures designed to alleviate Hawaii’s overcrowded criminal justice system.

• Senate Judiciary and Labor will meet to hear a bill that would require employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick and safe leave to employees “to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.”

The committee will also take up a bill regarding dog breeding and animal cruelty.

• Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection will meet to take up a measure requiring non-residential owners of vacation rentals to retain local agent contact information.

Halawa Correctional Facility inmates Sept. 21, 2011.

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