'Six Californias' Initiative Moves One Step Closer to Vote, Could Golden State Be Split Into Multiple Regions?

A bid to split California into six separate states has come one step closer to a vote.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper is backing the bill, which suggests California be split into six separate regions.

The Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur will now be able to collect signatures for the "Six Californias" plan, the Secretary of State's Office told Inland News Today.

Draper will need at least 807,000 signatures by July 18 to put his bid on the ballot - an end some say may never be reached.

But as of Friday, it seems the bill is making its way through the rounds with little issue. Draper's got the OK to start pushing the proposed legislation, which citizens of the Golden State might be able to vote on come November.

Draper first submitted the plan because of the sheer volume of the state. With a population of 38 million people, Draper said it's impossible for legislators to get any real work done, let alone represent the needs of all state citizens.

"Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government dominated by a large number of elected representatives from a small part of our state," both geographically and economically," the plan reads.

Draper told USA Today in an interview this week that California is essentially "ungovernable."

"'Six Californias' allows a refresh," Draper said.

The proposal splits California into six regions: South California, which includes San Diego and Orange counties, West California, representing Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Central California, consisting of Bakersfield, Fresno and Stockton, Silicon Valley with the San Francisco and San Jose Bay Area, North California, including Sacramento, and Jefferson - the Redding and Eureka areas.

Draper said his plan will push "regional cooperation," addressing each region's various needs.

But president of public relations firm Endeavor Strategic Communications and former aide to Rep. Darrell Issa Kurt Bardella said the bill's passage into law is highly unlikely.

"The implications would have tremendous repercussions at every level of government, from Congress all the way down," Bardella told Inland News Today. "Even just adding five more stars to the American flag."