Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 1428 amends provisions of the Penal Code relating to the offense of unlawful restraint. The act modifies the definition of "restraint" to include taking a victim between the ages of 14 and 17 outside the state and outside a 120-mile radius of the victim's residence without consent. The act increases the penalty for the offense from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor and enhances the penalty to a state jail felony if the person restrained was a child younger than 17 years of age.