.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master are going to come to be the initial private girls's athlete to be rewarded the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania as well as Mikie Sherrill of New Jacket announced Tuesday that their bipartisan regulation had passed the House of Representatives and also would certainly be actually sent out to Head of state Joe Biden for his signature.The bill to honor King, the tennis Hallway of Famer and lobbyist, had presently passed all in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, mentioned in a declaration that Master's "life time of campaigning for and also effort modified the garden for women and women on the court, in the classroom, and also the place of work." The bill was offered in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of Master's victory over Bobby Riggs in the "War of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched tennis match of all time. The award, rewarded through Our lawmakers for recognized accomplishments and also payments to culture, has actually formerly been given to sportsmens, consisting of pitcher Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente as well as golf players Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Arnold Palmer.King had actually currently been actually awarded the Governmental Medal of Freedom in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican, claims she possesses "faulty barricades, led undiscovered roads, as well as encouraged countless people to stand proudly with guts and principle in the defend what corrects.".