(a) The Chancellor’s office of the California State University shall adopt any rules and regulations it deems necessary for the administration of this section and the recovery of funds it determines are owed to the state. The rules and regulations adopted by the chancellor’s office pursuant to this section shall also include a provision authorizing the chancellor’s office to seek a civil penalty on a recipient of funds under this program, in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year for each year that the recipient of funds is determined by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to have failed to fulfill his or her obligation to teach in a high-priority school.

(b) Any moneys derived from the assessment of penalties pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the General Fund.

(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 91, Sec. 32. Effective January 1, 2004.)