(a) “Career executive” means an employee appointed from an employment list established for the express purpose of providing a list of persons with permanent status or who previously had permanent status in the civil service, or those persons who either, for two or more consecutive years, have been employed by the Legislature, as described in Section 18990, or have held nonelected exempt positions in the executive branch, as described in Section 18992, who are available for career executive assignments, in which selection, classification, salary, tenure, and other conditions of employment may be varied from those prevailing under Chapters 3 (commencing with Section 18800) through 7 (commencing with Section 19570) for other employees in the state civil service.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends that date.