2016 Tennessee Code
Title 39 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 13 - Offenses Against Person
Part 1 - Assaultive Offenses
§ 39-13-114. Communicating a threat concerning a school employee.

(a) For purposes of this section, "school" means any:

(1) Elementary school, middle school or high school;

(2) College of applied technology or postsecondary vocational or technical school; or

(3) Two-year or four-year college or university.

(b) A person commits the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee if:

(1) The person communicates to another a threat to cause the death of or serious bodily injury to a school employee and the threat is directly related to the employee's scope of employment;

(2) The threat involves the use of a firearm or other deadly weapon;

(3) The person to whom the threat is made reasonably believes that the person making the threat intends to carry out the threat; and

(4) The person making the threat intentionally engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step in the commission of the threatened act and the threatened act and the substantial step when taken together:

(A) Are corroborative of the person's intent to commit the threatened act; and

(B) Occur close enough in time to evidence an intent and ability to commit the threatened act.

(c) Communicating a death threat concerning a school employee is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of thirty (30) days.