RSA 100-A:52-b Payment by Retirement System; Group I.

I. The New Hampshire retirement system shall pay the cost for permanent group hospitalization, hospital medical care, surgical care, and other medical and surgical benefits, in the employer-sponsored plan provided for active employees of a retiree's former employer, subject to the provisions of this section, for the following persons:
(a) Any person, who has at least 20 years of creditable service as a group I member if age 60 or older, or at least 30 years of creditable service as a group I member if age 55-59, retired on or before July 1, 2004 as a group I member of the New Hampshire retirement system on service or ordinary disability retirement, provided that such person shall be entitled to retirement on the basis of group I creditable service, or any person retired on or