2:07 People living on flowages in Wisconsin will have to keep waiting for the right to install piers to be protected by state law. A proposed bill to extend pier-placement rights to waterfront flowage owners died in the state legislature this year. In Wisconsin, the land underneath flowages is often privately owned. The Wisconsin Realtors Association fought for a so-called “Protect Our Piers” bill, which would reverse that decision, but it died in the state Senate when COVID-19 hit. “There was no reason to believe that it would not have passed. It was passed with bipartisan support in committees, passed with unanimous support in the Assembly, it didn’t cost anything to the state, didn’t have a fiscal impact. There’s no reason to believe that the bill would not have received unanimous support by the State Senate as well,” said Association Executive Vice President Tom Larson.