President José Raúl Mulino returned Bill 331 to the National Assembly on April 17, 2026, without signing it, through Note No. 210-2026-AL addressed to Assembly President Jorge Luis Herrera. The initiative had been introduced on July 31, 2025, by Representative Lenín Alberto Ulate Rodríguez along with nine other co-sponsors. It had completed all three debates in the Education, Culture and Sports Commission: First Debate approved October 27, 2025; Second Debate approved March 4, 2026; and Third Debate approved March 5, 2026.

The Executive's objections are partial and cover six provisions. On grounds of inconvenience, the president objected to numeral 3 of Article 4 — concerning environmental education, already regulated by Law 38 of 2014 — ; Article 5, which had assigned sports tourism governance to ATP in apparent conflict with PANDEPORTE's mandates enshrined in the Consolidated Text of Law 16 of 1995; numeral 8 of Article 12, which created training programs without budgetary backing; and articles on sanitary certification that omitted prior authorization from the Ministry of Health.

The objection on grounds of unconstitutionality — that is, of being contrary to the Constitution — fell on Article 8, which conditioned municipalities to criteria set by external bodies, infringing Articles 232 and 233 of the Constitution on municipal autonomy. Also vetoed was Article 19, which created the National Sports Tourism Fund without establishing funding sources, contravening Article 276 of the Constitution, which prohibits eliminating revenue streams without creating substitutes.

The Education, Culture and Sports Commission issued its report on April 27, 2026. It accepted some of the objections — proposing to eliminate numeral 3 of Article 4, numeral 8 of Article 12, and to modify Articles 5, 8, and 27 — but rejected those directed at Articles 16, 31, 33, and 34 as bearing no relation to the Executive's stated grounds. The report recommends that the full Assembly submit the corrected text to a second debate.

Legislative arithmetic defines the bill's path forward. If the Assembly accepts the Executive's modifications, an ordinary majority of 36 votes will suffice. If it opts to promulgate the bill through reconsideration without accepting the objections, it will need the qualified majority of 47 of the 71 representatives required by Article 169 of the Constitution. The bill seeks to regulate events such as the Gran Fondo Océano a Océano, Ironman 70.3, and the Ocean 2 Ocean Regatta, and it establishes sports tourism circuits with five-year certification administered by ATP.