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Utah's Adult Probation and Parole Employment Incentive Program gives regional supervision offices bonus funding when more people on parole or felony probation find and keep jobs, but only if reoffending rates in that region haven't gone up. This bill clarifies how employment and recidivism rates are calculated—spelling out exactly how to count the total population on probation or parole and how to measure job-holding rates—and continues a change from an earlier version of the bill so that incentive payments flow first to the state corrections department rather than directly to individual regions, with the department required to spend 85% of the money on supervision and rehabilitation services in the region that earned it and allowed to use up to 15% for administrative costs. It also keeps a new "end-of-supervision" bonus payment for each person who completes parole or felony probation while holding a job during the final six months of supervision. If the state doesn't have enough money in the program's restricted account to pay all the incentives owed, payments would be reduced proportionally for everyone rather than fully funding some regions and not others.