.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master are going to become the 1st specific women's professional athlete to become rewarded the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey declared Tuesday that their bipartisan laws had passed our home of Representatives and also would be actually delivered to President Joe Biden for his signature.The expense to recognize Master, the tennis Hallway of Famer and protestor, had currently passed unanimously in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, said in a declaration that King's "life time of advocacy and also hard work transformed the yard for females as well as women on the courthouse, in the class, and also the office." The expense was presented in September 2023 on the 50th wedding anniversary of King's victory over Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes," still the most-watched tennis match of perpetuity. The medal, granted by Our lawmakers for recognized success as well as additions to society, has actually previously been provided athletes, consisting of pitcher Jackie Robinson and also Roberto Clemente as well as golf enthusiasts Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson as well as Arnold Palmer.King had currently been rewarded the Presidential Medal of Independence in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, says she possesses "damaged obstacles, led unexplored pathways, and also inspired many individuals to stand happily along with nerve and also view in the defend what is right.".