§87-25 Determine eligibility of employee, dependent, or person. The board of trustees shall establish and adopt eligibility requirements to determine which employee, dependent, or person may qualify as an employee-beneficiary, dependent-beneficiary, or qualified-beneficiary, respectively, provided that a retired member of the employees' retirement system, a county pension system, or a police, firefighters, and bandsmen pension system of the State or county, or the retired member's dependent shall be eligible to qualify as an employee-beneficiary or dependent-beneficiary, whether or not the retired member was actively employed by the State or county at the time of the retired member's retirement and whether or not the employee retired before or after the establishing of the public employees health fund. Employees who retired prior to the establishing of the health fund shall be treated as if they were members of the system during their period of employment with the State or county and receive the same benefits as other members. Only an employee-beneficiary or dependent or person satisfying the eligibility requirements may qualify as an employee-beneficiary, dependent-beneficiary, or qualified-beneficiary. [L 1961, c 146, pt of §1; Supp, §5A-15; HRS §87-25; am L 1973, c 24, §3; am L 1974, c 136, §3; am L 1983, c 124, §15; gen ch 1985; am L 1991, c 331, §7]