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Among its several changes to Utah's criminal and juvenile justice laws, this bill does three main things: it updates how recidivism — meaning a person's return to criminal activity after a conviction — is defined and measured across state agencies, requiring both a standard metric (re-imprisonment for a new conviction within three years) and a broader "alternative" metric that also counts arrests and jail time; it adds a new pathway allowing a prosecutor to ask the Board of Pardons and Parole to move a minor who was convicted as an adult for aggravated murder out of a secure youth facility and into an adult prison, provided the minor was 17 at the time of the crime and meets other conditions; and it requires the Board to appoint a lawyer for any such minor, at the Board's expense, before that hearing takes place. Minors who were convicted of aggravated murder and are currently housed in a secure youth facility are most directly affected, as prosecutors now have a formal mechanism to seek their transfer to an adult correctional facility before they turn 25.