MOWW NEWS RELEASE
This month’s meeting of the Major General Franklin E. Miles Military Order of the World Wars Chapter 229 will be on Tuesday April 21. This month’s speaker will be Representative Christine Chandler, who will give an update on the recent session of the Legislature.
Rep. Chandler serves as State Representative for New Mexico House District 43, (Los Alamos, Sandoval, and Santa Fe Counties). She was first elected to the NM House of Representatives in 2018. Chris serves as Chair of the influential House Judiciary Committee and as a member of the House Taxation & Revenue Committee. During the interim, Chris chairs the Courts, Correction & Justice Committee and is a member of the Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee.
Since being elected Chris has focused on the state’s employment laws with the aim of leveling the playing field between the employer and employee. She was the lead co-sponsor on the Healthy Workplaces Act that successfully passed in 2020. This transformative piece of legislation ensures that every worker in the state receives paid sick leave. Chris’s more recent legislative priorities include developing balanced regulatory regimes to address the use
of artificial intelligence and electronic privacy.
During the 2026 legislative session, Rep. Chandler was the lead sponsor of the Medical Malpractice Reform legislation, HB 99, which passed both chambers by supermajority votes and awaits the Governor’s signature. Other 2026 legislative successes include passage of a Healthcare Provider Loan Repayment program (HB66), Driver Privacy & Safety Act (SB 40) and House Joint Resolution 1, reforming the process selecting university regents.
This month’s meeting will be on April 21. We will meet in the Los Alamos Research Park building room 203A. The meeting will begin with a social period starting at 6:00 pm. A brief meeting will start at 6:30 pm with the speaker at about 7:15 pm. For further information, call Gregg Giesler at 505-662-5574 or email at g.giesler@computer.org.
The Military Order of the World Wars meetings are open to all interested people for dinner and program with RSVP, or the program only at no cost. The cost for dinner is $25. Please call Robert Hull 1-505-328-1502 for reservations. A reservation is a commitment to pay. The dinner menu is Chicken Cordon Bleu with appropriate sides/
The meeting will be a hybrid session both live and Zoom. Zoom will start at about 6:00 pm. Zoom details will be in the reminder email two days before the meeting
An Act of Congress chartered the Military Order of the World Wars in 1919 as a national patriotic organization. The principal objectives of the MOWW are continuing service to the Nation, and patriotic educational opportunity for the nation’s youth and citizens. Current youth programs are focused upon annual Youth Leadership Conferences for high school students presented in New Mexico by its related Sunbelt Patriotic Youth Leadership Conferences, Inc. Current, former and retired federally commissioned officers of all branches of the United States Uniformed Services are eligible for membership in the MOWW and are especially invited to attend our meetings.
For additional information about MOWW membership, call Commander Gregg Giesler at 505-662-5574.