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16 NEW JERSEY COPS ■ JULY 2014 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 of a 2.0 percent increase per year over the corresponding length of the collective negotiation agreement. An award of an arbitrator shall not include base salary items and nonsalary economic issues which were not included in the prior collective negotiations agreement. (cf: P .L.2010, c.105, s.2) f. The task force shall annually report its findings, along with any recommendations it may have, to the governor and, pursuant to section 2 of P .L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to the Legislature [annually, on or before April 1 of each year]. The task force's final report due on or before [April 1, 2014] December 31, 2017 shall include, in addition to any other findings and recommendations, a specific recommendation for any amendments to the arbitration award cap. Upon the filing of its final report on or before [April 1, 2014] December 31, 2017, the task force shall expire. (cf: P .L.2010, c.105, s.3) 4. Section 4 of P .L.2010, c.105 (C.34:13A-16.9) is amended to read as follows: 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011; provided however, section 2 of P .L.2010, c.105 (C.34:13A-16.7) shall apply only to collective negotiations between a public employer and the exclusive representative of a public police department or public fire department that relate to [a] negotiated [agreement] agreements expiring on that effective date or any date thereafter until [April 1, 2014] or on December 31, 2017, whereupon, after December 31, 2017, the provisions of section 2 of P .L.2010, c.105 (C.34:13A-16.7) shall become inoperative for all parties except those whose collective negotiations agreements expired prior to [April 1, 2014] or on December 31, 2017 but for whom a final settlement has not been reached. [When final settlement between the parties in all such negotiations is reached, the provisions of section 2 of this act shall expire. In the case of a party that entered into a contract that expires on the effective date of this act or any date thereafter until April 1, 2014, and where the terms of that contract oth \