§ 3609. Grants for planning an establishment of new certified home
health agencies. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized, within the
amount allocated pursuant to subdivisions one, two and three of section
thirty-six hundred fifteen of this article, to make grants to voluntary
not-for-profit organizations in areas of the state determined by the
commissioner to be in need of home care services.

2. Such grants shall be awarded for the purposes of planning for
establishment as a certified home health agency pursuant to section
thirty-six hundred six of this chapter.

3. Such grants shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars per annum and
are not renewable.

4. The grant applications shall include such information as required
by the commissioner.

5. Funds for such grants shall be made available pursuant to the
funding formula and allocations as provided in subdivisions one, two and
three of section thirty-six hundred fifteen of this article.

6. The commissioner shall approve applications in accordance with the
provisions of subdivisions five, six and seven of section thirty-six
hundred fifteen of this article.