Houston ? A judge set a $200,000 bond Wednesday for Andrea Yates to leave jail for a state mental hospital, where she will await a new trial on murder charges in the drowning deaths of her five children.

State District Judge Belinda Hill told Yates, 41, she could not order her to commit herself to the hospital but set the bond based on Yates remaining at the facility until her March 20 trial.

Prosecutors had asked that bond be set at $1 million.

Yates’ defense attorney, George Parnham, said he was unsure if Yates or her family could pay the $20,000 in cash needed for the $200,000 bond. He had sought a $50,000, which would have required $5,000 in cash.

Yates is accused of drowning her children, ages 6 months to 7 years, in a bathtub in 2001.

Her convictions were overturned last year.

Yates has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.