Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE determines that a scheduled occasion for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for a first semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of a first HARQ process identifier (ID) overlaps with at least one downlink or flexible symbol. The UE reports, defers, or drops the HARQ feedback for the first SPS PDSCH if resources for reporting the HARQ feedback for the first SPS PDSCH are not available until on or after a scheduled occasion for reporting a HARQ feedback for a second PDSCH of the same first HARQ process ID, in response to the determining.