House lawmakers worked late into the evening and on into the early hours of Friday morning on amendments to House Bill 1232, the so-called public option bill. The bill won approval on a preliminary vote and heads to a recorded vote on Monday. What they had to work with is a strike-below amendment, which essentially amounted to a rewrite of the bill approved by the House Health & Insurance Committee on April 27. And work they did, starting at 5 p.m. on Thursday and continuing on until just after 2:15 a.m. Friday morning with a 35-minute break shortly before midnight. "This bill is a narrowly targeted, careful and deliberate approach to a problem we have in our state, particularly in rural Colorado," said bill sponsor Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, in closing comments just before 2 a.m. "Every single one of us has constituents going to bed tonight, or already gone to bed, worrying about their family's health insurance because of the cost.