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Utah's Adult Probation and Parole Employment Incentive Program rewards regional supervision offices with bonus funding when more people on parole or felony probation find and hold steady jobs — but only if recidivism (re-offending) in that region hasn't gone up. This bill updates that program by adding new definitions, clarifying how employment rates are calculated, and changing how incentive payments are distributed: rather than routing funds directly to individual regions, the money now flows first to the department as a whole, which then must spend 85% of it on supervision and rehabilitation services in the region and may use 15% for administrative costs. It also adds a new "end-of-supervision" bonus payment for each person who completes parole or felony probation while holding a job in the final six months of their supervision.