OFFICES AND OFFICERS ‑- STATE ‑- EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ‑- NEW PENSION PLAN FOR SURVIVING SPOUSE A statute providing that whenever any person presently receiving a retirement allowance from the state employees' retirement system shall die leaving a surviving spouse, a monthly payment shall be made to the surviving spouse in an amount equal to one‑half the retirement allowance received by the retired person during his life, would be unconstitutional.