International gambling operators are furiously brushing up on their Portuguese ahead of Wednesday’s inaugural meeting of a key group of pro-gaming Brazilian legislators.

Wednesday brings the first meeting of the Parliamentary Front for the Regulatory Framework of Gaming in Brazil, otherwise known as the best shot Brazilian gamblers have for expanding their list of legal gambling options. The meeting, which will take place at the federal legislature at 8am, will “defend the legalization and regulation of gambling,” according to the group’s leader, Deputy César Halum.

For the past few years, Brazil has been trying to pass two competing pieces of gambling legislation, one in the Senate, the other in the Chamber of Deputies, which would authorize some mix of casinos, sports betting, bingo parlors, the ‘jogo de bicho’ lottery as well as vague references to ‘electronic bets,’ which most observers have interpreted as real-money online sports betting, and possibly other products.

The Parliamentary Front was established last month after Halum obtained the signatures of 262 of the 513 members of the Chamber of Deputies. The Front plans to push for the Chamber to vote on its long-delayed 442/1991 legislation, and Halum has stated that he expects this vote to occur before December.