Section 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.Amended by 2013 Tenn. Acts, ch. 473,s 10, eff. 7/1/2013. Acts 2008, ch. 1141, § 1.