Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-5-714

(a)(1)(A) If a salaried employee of an LEA or public charter school is absent from the employee's assigned duties as a result of personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the employee while the employee was acting in the course and scope of the employee's employment with the LEA or public charter school, then the LEA or public charter school shall continue to pay the employee's full salary and full benefits, including, but not limited to, health insurance benefits, until the employee is released by the employee's physician to return to work or is determined by the employee's physician to be permanently and totally disabled from returning to work, whichever occurs first.

(B) If an hourly employee of an LEA or public charter school is absent from the employee's assigned duties as a result of personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the employee while the employee was acting in the course and scope of the employee's employment with the LEA or public charter school, then the LEA or public charter school shall continue to pay the employee an amount representing the average number of hours the employee works for the LEA or public charter school per pay period and the employee's full benefits, including, but not limited to, health insurance benefits, if available to the employee until the employee is released by the employee's physician to return to work or is determined by the employee's physician to be permanently and totally disabled from returning to work, whichever occurs first.  An hourly employee is not eligible to receive the continued pay and benefits described in this subdivision (a)(1)(B) if the employee has been employed by the LEA or public charter school for less than one (1) full pay period.