ALBANY – The majority leader of the state Senate, Joseph Bruno, knocked a vote on the West Side stadium off today’s agenda of the Public Authorities Control Board.

Mr. Bruno, Republican of Rensselaer, issued a formal request last night to table the question of public subsidies for the New York Sports and Convention Center. The action came after weeks of speculation on whether the three voting members on the five-person board would approve, delay, or reject $300 million in state subsidies for the $2 billion stadium. A unanimous vote is needed for approval.

Under board rules, a voting member is allowed to table a vote once on a single issue. By requesting that the stadium be removed from today’s agenda, Mr. Bruno, who controls one of the votes, exercised that option. The Democratic speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, could table a vote on the stadium at a board meeting next month.

Governor Pataki, a strong stadium supporter, controls the third board vote and sets the agenda for meetings. He and Mayor Bloomberg have pressed Messrs. Bruno and Silver to vote on the stadium before the International Olympic Committee decides July 6 on a host city for the 2012 Olympics, for which the proposed New York Jets stadium would be the principal venue.

Mr. Pataki said yesterday he would consider convening a special board meeting if a vote on the stadium is tabled again next month. That would force Messrs. Bruno and Silver to vote for or against the project before the Olympic vote is held in Singapore.

“I would be inclined to do that, yes,” Mr. Pataki said.

The proposed stadium has become extraordinarily contentious in recent weeks.

The Jets, who won a bid for air rights over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority rail yards where the stadium would be built, are opposed by the owners of Madison Square Garden, who fear competition from another Manhattan sporting venue. Several lawsuits charge that the state shortchanged taxpayers by approving the Jets’ bid of $250 million for “air rights” at the 13-acre parcel, when some have estimated the asset to be worth as much as $1 billion. Mr. Silver, who represents Lower Manhattan, and Mr. Bruno, have suggested they would prefer to wait until the Olympics bid and the lawsuits have been decided. By deferring a vote on the stadium last night, Mr. Bruno, a 76-year-old trained boxer, sent a clear signal that his earlier statements were meant to be taken seriously.

“The board is being asked to consider this proposal while a number of unresolved issues and questions remain relating to the business plan for the stadium and lawsuits and legal issues that have yet to be resolved,” Mr. Bruno said. “In addition, no consensus has been reached among the general public on the wisdom of this proposal or for the use of this site for a stadium.”

Mr. Bruno’s formal request incorporated a number of new concerns in addition to the ones he enumerated to reporters in recent weeks, including questions about the cost of modifying the proposed 75,000-seat stadium’s retractable roof, and the form and makeup of the public corporation that would oversee collection of public revenue from the site.

The request repeated Mr. Bruno’s statement from earlier in the day, however, that he would approve financing for an Olympic facility if New York City is chosen.

“If the Olympics vote, and I hope they do, to come here,” Mr. Bruno said, “we in the Senate are committed to build whatever facilities it takes to host the Olympics wherever it’s appropriate to host the Olympics…. We’re prepared to put that in writing, and that ought to be good enough for anybody on that Olympic committee to understand. You come and we will build it.”

Mr. Bruno spoke about the stadium yesterday at his third-floor offices after a press conference on unrelated legislation. As he spoke, legions of unionized laborers could be heard outside the Capitol whooping and chanting at a rally in support of the stadium. Mr. Pataki and pro-stadium legislators attended the event.