Measure exposing banks to lawsuits over alleged “de-banking” is advancing through Senate

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Measure exposing banks to lawsuits over alleged “de-banking” is advancing through Senate

Republican state senators voted Thursday to advance a bill that would expose banking institutions to lawsuits if they deny services to customers because of the way they exercised their rights under the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The measure applies to the purveyors of essential services, including utilities. But Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, the chief sponsor of Senate Bill 57, said it should be called the “Georgia ban on de-b