State lawmakers have agreed to compensate victims of a eugenics program that for decades forced people who social workers said were developmentally disabled to undergo sterilization. Although 32 states practiced eugenics, thought at the time to strengthen the gene pool and reduce poverty, North Carolina is the first to pay victims. Lawmakers on Wednesday passed a budget that includes $10 million for victims. A state board ran the program from 1933 to 1977, sterilizing about 7,600 people. Only about 200 have been identified, though others are likely to come forward. “It’s the most egregious taking that government could possibly be guilty of,” said the House speaker, Thom Tillis, a Republican. “It was critical to close this chapter in our history.”