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Utah's crime victim reparations program currently bars incarcerated individuals from receiving financial assistance for injuries suffered in prison — but this bill creates a narrow exception, allowing people who were sexually assaulted while incarcerated to apply for a reparations award to cover mental health counseling costs after they are released. The bill also updates the definition of "criminally injurious conduct" to explicitly include hit-and-run crashes involving death, clarifying that victims of those incidents qualify for reparations.