74-4978g. Preservation of entitlement to receive pension or other benefit from state highway patrol pension fund; benefits for minor children of certain deceased members; conditions for payments; termination of payments; exemption of pension and benefits from taxes and civil liability. Any person receiving or entitled to receive a pension or any other benefit, or who will become entitled to receive a pension or any other benefit, from the state highway patrol pension fund as it existed prior to April 1, 1972, shall be entitled to receive from the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system such pension or any other benefit to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as existed on April 1, 1972. Any minor child of a member of the state highway patrol pension system or special member of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system who died by reason of injuries received or disease contracted by such member while in the performance of such member's duties as a member of the highway patrol and whose spouse's pension was terminated because of such spouse's remarriage shall receive a monthly amount equal to the pension which was terminated due to such remarriage. Such benefits shall accrue from April 1, 1973, or the date of the spouse's remarriage, whichever is later and shall be terminated on the first day of the month in which the child dies, marries or attains the age of 18 years or in which the child attains the age of 23 years, if such child is a full-time student as provided in K.S.A. 74-49,117. All pensions and benefits received by any person under this act are hereby made and declared exempt from any tax of the state of Kansas or any political subdivision or taxing body thereof, and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment, or any other process or claim whatsoever.

History: L. 1972, ch. 292, § 7; L. 1973, ch. 328, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 345, § 4; L. 1989, ch. 232, § 23; July 1.