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Tenn. Code Ann. § 33-3-208

Duty of employees who transmit or record patient communications

Acts 1989, ch. 549, § 1; T.C.A., § 33-10-303; Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1; 2001, ch. 334, § 4; 2002, ch. 730, § 17.

IF AND ONLY IF

(1) an employee of a service provider is normally responsible for transmitting or recording communications from a service recipient to a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst, AND

(2) the employee receives a communication from a service recipient of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim, THEN

(3) the employee shall communicate the threat to the professional employed by the service provider.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.