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 States Coast Guard and
was among those chosen to address the Joint Ses-
sion of Congress on the occasion of the 100th anni-
versary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower.
(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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