The State Health Benefits Commission shall undertake by an amendatory or supplementary contract to extend the coverage of the employee drug prescription program, authorized pursuant to subsection (F) of section 5 of P.L. 1961, c. 49 (C. 52:14-17.29), to State employees retiring or who have retired on or after January 1, 1980 under the State Police Retirement System after 25 or more years of service and who as of the time of their retirement are or shall be medically certified to be suffering from an illness characterized as terminal by two or more physicians licensed in the practice of medicine and surgery in this State.
N.J.S. § 52:14-17.29a