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Utah's crime victim reparations program, which provides financial help to crime victims for things like medical bills and counseling, currently bars people from receiving any award for injuries suffered while they are incarcerated. This bill would create a narrow exception allowing individuals who were sexually assaulted while in prison, jail, or another correctional facility to apply for reparations covering mental health counseling costs, but only after they are released and only if they meet the program's other standard eligibility rules. The bill also updates the definition of "criminally injurious conduct" used throughout the reparations program, clarifying that it includes hit-and-run crashes resulting in death and conduct connected to bigamous relationships, while making other minor technical wording changes.