ALBANY – State lawmakers were not able to reach agreement on several outstanding issues on the final scheduled day of the 228th legislative session, agreeing instead to negotiate into the night on laws that would allow casinos in the Catskills, wine shipments, and increased salaries for unionized nursing-home workers upstate, before returning this morning to vote.

Lawmakers spent most of the day voting on dozens of moribund, one-house bills as Governor Pataki and the two legislative leaders strained to reach consensus on areas where agreement could be reached. By late afternoon, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, the majority leader of the Senate, Joseph Bruno, and Mr. Pataki passed off on three new bills aimed at reining in vice.

The new laws would criminalize the production of crystal methamphetamine, deny state funds to convicted sex criminals for treatment of male impotency, and create a new oversight board to monitor the corruption-plagued New York Racing Association. Later in the evening, Mr. Bruno, a Republican of Rensselaer, said unfinished business required a return to session.

Some issues were settled. Democrats who control the Assembly pressed in the days leading up to the session’s end for further changes to the so-called Rockefeller drug laws, which impose long sentences for the use and sale of illegal drugs. Republicans who control the governor’s office and the Senate pressed for protections against sexual predators, including lifetime registration and the tracking of dangerous convicts with global positioning tools. Both parties were expected to leave Albany disappointed on those issues.

“Right now we’re late in the session, so things that hadn’t been agreed to are at risk, but we’re still pushing,” Mr. Pataki said at a late-afternoon press conference. “Anything that hasn’t been agreed to at this point, clearly as the clock ticks we have to get more done as quickly as we can, and we’re continuing to push for that.”

The Legislature and the governor disagree on how many casinos should be allowed as a way of settling Indian land claims. Mr. Pataki originally proposed five but is now insisting on one. Messrs. Bruno and Silver are holding out for three, a figure Mr. Bruno said last night should not be reduced.

The three parties also disagree on how much wine may be shipped in and out of the state. Messrs. Pataki and Silver want unlimited shipments. Mr. Pataki is holding out for limits.

On Tuesday, the governor began to press for a change to the state’s 100-school cap on independent public, or charter, schools. The chairman of the Assembly committee on education, Steven Sanders, a Democrat of Manhattan, said yesterday that negotiations on the issue were dead. A spokesman for Mr. Pataki said the issue was still in play. “It’s still being talked about,” the spokesman, David Catalfamo, said. Mr. Bruno confirmed the issue was on the table last night, with some saying a compromise might lift the cap by 25.

On Wednesday, the Legislature approved the easy distribution of emergency contraception pills to women and girls, giving pharmacists, nurses, and midwives the right to distribute high doses of Progesterone upon request. Mr. Pataki, historically a supporter of abortion-related rights, would not say late yesterday if he plans to approve the bill. The Senate vote on emergency contraception was split.

The New York Yankees’ plan to build a new stadium in the Bronx before the end of the decade was buoyed by legislation approved in both chambers yesterday authorizing parking facilities and requiring parkland around the proposed $800 million, retro ballpark. Plans call for the stadium to retain its current field dimensions while the exterior returns to the limestone finish of the original stadium. Mr. Pataki is expected to sign the bill.

According to the new impotency legislation, convicted sex criminals will not be allowed to receive state subsidies for treatment of the condition.

The new NYRA legislation creates a five-person oversight board and abolishes a construction fund for the gaming entity.

The methamphetamine bill makes owning ingredients for the drug a felony. It also makes the disposal of such ingredients subject to penalty.

Mr. Pataki, who turns 60 today, called his 11th legislative session as governor “very good,” before listing yesterday’s agreements.

Mr. Pataki has one year left in his third term and is trailing the state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, by double digits in polls about a theoretical race for another term. Mr. Pataki has said he would make a decision on his future after the legislative session, but he reopened the window on his decision during a Wednesday press conference. “It’s not going to be that quickly,” Mr. Pataki said. “I’ll make it when I’m ready.”