(a) Any member of the General Assembly or a state constitutional officer who dies before completing a term of office to which the person was elected shall continue to accrue credited service in the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System during the remainder of the term for which the person was elected.
(b) The surviving spouse of a member or former member of the General Assembly or of a state constitutional officer or former state constitutional officer who, by virtue of the provisions of this section or any other law, has five (5) years or more of credited service in any capacity in the system, except for a member of the General Assembly who must have had ten (10) or more years of credited service if he or she only has service as a member of the General Assembly, shall be entitled upon reaching the required age to a surviving spouse benefit in the amount prescribed by law under the division of the system in which the deceased member was receiving benefits or would have been entitled under this section to receive benefits if the member had lived to retirement age.
(c) Nothing contained in this section is intended to, nor shall anything in this section be construed to, permit any member or former member of the General Assembly or any constitutional officer or former constitutional officer or any spouse of the member or officer to earn credited service in any retirement system after the expiration of the term of office to which the member was elected.
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