SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers closed out their spring session early Sunday without passing legislation to reform mass transit governance in the Chicago area or direct upwards of $1 billion in new funding to the CTA, Metra and Pace to fend off a $770 million fiscal cliff that looms next year.

A bill championed by state Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, passed the Senate by 32-22 vote shortly before midnight, but the measure — and its proposed $1.50 tax on food and package deliveries — never got out of the station to the House floor.

Had it been put up to a vote before the clock struck 12, it would’ve only required a simple majority, but the state constitution requires a three-fifths approval for bills passed June 1 or later.

And on a night when Democrats had to race the clock to pass a

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