.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean King will become the very first specific women's professional athlete to become rewarded the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey introduced Tuesday that their bipartisan legislation had passed the House of Representatives as well as would be actually sent to President Joe Biden for his signature.The expense to honor Master, the tennis Lobby of Famer as well as activist, had actually presently passed unanimously in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, stated in a claim that King's "life time of campaigning for as well as effort modified the garden for females as well as women on the courthouse, in the classroom, as well as the work environment." The costs was offered in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of King's success over Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched tennis suit of perpetuity. The medal, awarded through Congress for prominent success as well as payments to culture, has actually previously been offered to professional athletes, featuring baseball players Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente as well as golfers Jack Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Arnold Palmer.King had already been rewarded the Governmental Medal of Flexibility in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, states she has "broken obstacles, led undiscovered courses, as well as encouraged a great number of folks to stand happily with nerve as well as principle in the defend what is right.".