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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 892
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 17, 2005
Mr. BACA (for himself, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. PETERSON of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. MURTHA, Mr. MCCRERY, Mr. SHAW, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. WALSH, Ms. HART, and Mr. 
BLUNT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
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 sports-
manship in golf.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Arnold Palmer is a world famous golf pro-
fessional, a highly-successful business executive, a 
prominent advertising spokesman, a devoted hus-
band, father, and grandfather, and a man with a 
common touch that has made him one of the most 
popular and accessible public figures in history. 
(2) Arnold Palmer amassed 92 championships 
in professional competition of national or inter-
national stature by the end of 1993, 61 of which 
came on the Professional Golf Association Tour. 
(3) Arnold Palmer’s magnetic personality and 
unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness have 
endeared him to millions throughout the world. 
(4) Arnold Palmer has been the recipient of 
countless honors including virtually every national 
award in golf and both the Hickok Athlete of the 
Year and Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year 
awards, and he was chosen Athlete of the Decade for 
the 1960s in a national Associated Press poll. 
(5) Arnold Palmer has received numerous hon-
ors outside the world of sports, including the Patriot 
Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society 
and the Golden Plate award of the American Acad-
emy of Achievement. 
(6) Arnold Palmer served his country for 3 
years in the United States Coast Guard and was 
among those chosen to address the Joint Session of
Congress on the occasion of the 100th anniversary 
of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. 
(7) Arnold Palmer served as Honorary National 
Chairman of the March of Dimes Birth Defects 
Foundation for 20 years and played a major role in 
the fund-raising drive that led to the creation of the 
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women in 
Orlando and the Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable 
Foundation in his Western Pennsylvania hometown. 
(8) Arnold Palmer remains active in tour-
nament golf, although he retired from competition in 
the major championships on April 14, 2002, when 
he played the last of his 48 Masters Tournaments, 
where he was given an emotional standing ovation as 
he finished the 18th hole. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tem-
pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 
for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold 
medal of appropriate design to Arnold Palmer in recogni-
tion of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence 
and good sportsmanship. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purpose of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary
of the Treasury shall strike a gold medal with suitable em-
blems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas-
ury may prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate 
medals in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to 
section 2 and sell such duplicate medals at a price suffi-
cient to cover the costs of the duplicate medals (including 
labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex-
penses) and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 
The medals struck under this Act are national medals 
for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. 
SEC. 5. FUNDING. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF CHARGES.—There is author-
ized to be charged against the United States Mint Public 
Enterprise Fund an amount not to exceed $30,000 to pay 
for the cost of the medals authorized by this Act. 
(b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 
sale of duplicate bronze medals under section 3 shall be 
deposited in the United States Mint Public Enterprise 
Fund.
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