IIB 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1243 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 29, 2009 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

Urban Affairs 

AN ACT 

To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of 

Congress to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service 

to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship in golf. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) Arnold Palmer is a world famous golf pro4 fessional, a highly successful business executive, a 

5 prominent advertising spokesman, a devoted hus6 band, father, and grandfather, and a man with a 

7 common touch that has made him one of the most 

8 popular and accessible public figures in history. 

9 (2) Arnold Palmer amassed 92 championships 

10 in professional competition of national or inter11 national stature by the end of 1993, 62 of which 

12 came on the Professional Golf Association Tour. 

13 (3) Arnold Palmer’s magnetic personality and 

14 unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness have 

15 endeared him to millions throughout the world. 

16 (4) Arnold Palmer has been the recipient of 

17 countless honors including virtually every national 

18 award in golf and both the Hickok Athlete of the 

19 Year and Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year 

20 awards, and he was chosen Athlete of the Decade for 

21 the 1960s in a national Associated Press poll. 

22 (5) Arnold Palmer has received numerous hon23 ors outside the world of sports, including the Patriot 

24 Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, 

25 the Golden Plate award of the American Academy of 


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1 Achievement, and the United States Navy Memorial 

2 Lone Sailor Award. 

3 (6) Arnold Palmer was honored by the United 

4 States Golf Association with the opening of the Ar5 nold Palmer Center for Golf History on June 3rd 

6 2008. 

7 (7) Arnold Palmer served his country for 3 

8 years in the United States Coast Guard and was 

9 among those chosen to address the Joint Session of 

10 Congress on the occasion of the 100th anniversary 

11 of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

12 (8) Arnold Palmer served as Honorary National 

13 Chairman of the March of Dimes Birth Defects 

14 Foundation for 20 years and played a major role in 

15 the fund-raising drive that led to the creation of the 

16 Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando and 

17 the Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation in 

18 his Western Pennsylvania hometown. 

19 (9) Arnold Palmer remains active in tour20 nament golf, although he retired from competition in 

21 the major championships on April 14, 2002, when 

22 he played the last of his 48 Masters Tournaments, 

23 where he was given an emotional standing ovation as 

24 he finished the 18th hole. 


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1 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 

2 (a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 

3 the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tem4 pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 

5 for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold 

6 medal of appropriate design to Arnold Palmer in recogni7 tion of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence 

8 and good sportsmanship. 

9 (b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purpose of the 

10 presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 

11 of the Treasury shall strike a gold medal with suitable em12 blems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the 

13 Secretary. 

14 SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 

15 Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas16 ury may prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate 

17 medals in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to 

18 section 2 and sell such duplicate medals at a price suffi19 cient to cover the costs of the duplicate medals (including 

20 labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex21 penses) and the cost of the gold medal. 

22 SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 

23 The medals struck under this Act are national medals 

24 for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. 


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1 SEC. 5. FUNDING. 

2 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF CHARGES.—There is author3 ized to be charged against the United States Mint Public 

4 Enterprise Fund an amount not to exceed $30,000 to pay 

5 for the cost of the medals authorized by this Act. 

6 (b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 

7 sale of duplicate bronze medals under section 3 shall be 

8 deposited in the United States Mint Public Enterprise 

9 Fund. 

Passed the House of Representatives April 28, 2009. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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