Communicating a threat concerning a school employee

(a) For purposes of this section, “school” means any: (A) A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.Person: includes the singular and the plural and means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, or other organization or other legal entity, or any agent or servant thereof. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106(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.