Optional retirement for previously retired state employees.

(a) Any state employee who has retired under the state retirement system and is reemployed, upon his next retirement, in the event he has or has not become a member of the state retirement system, may have his choice of option, prior to the receipt of his first retirement check, if he has completed at least one year of satisfactory service.

(b) The provisions of this section shall expire August 1, 1981, except that any rights that have vested under the provisions of this section during its effective period shall remain in full force and effect.

(Acts 1981, No. 81-680, p. 1113, §§ 1, 2.)